Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know.

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

It's nice to come back for visits. 'General Hospital' is my home.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.