"As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." --Carson McCullers

"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey." --Tad Williams

"Maybe 'home' isn't places. Maybe it's other people." --Lyme

There are hands I am holding
That I didn't know
Back when home was a place
And I thought that growing up was a phase
--Alli Rogers

"I am homesick.
Homesick for the home I never have seen.
... I am here by some sad cosmic mistake,
And I am homesick."
--Ernest Crosby

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have." --Edgar Watson Howe

"Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday." --Zora Neale Hurston

"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." --Loren Eiseley

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." --Robert Frost

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a person occasionally when they are at home." --Edgar Watson Howe

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you." --Christian Morgenstern

"Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room." --Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Peace - that was the other name for home." --Kathleen Norris

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration." --Charles Dickens

"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest."
--Robert Montgomery

"I don't believe that it will make a great deal of difference at home when I am not there any longer. I think only I would feel the difference." --Anna Freud

"Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die." --Roald Dahl

"We both have families we were born into. But sometimes families change, and we have to build our own. For me, our friendship binds us closer than blood ever could." -Xena, Xena: Warrior Princess, ep 1x20 "Ties That Bind"