Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and although I love Norway I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

Concepts like individuals have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat a sense of wrong a homesickness a lovesickness.

When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.