Zitat des Tages über Heimweh / Homesickness:
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.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
'Hiraeth' means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
I worked as a janitor in Canada for nine months. It's during that time when I experienced extreme homesickness.
