Douglas Adams Quotes

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

I miss the game - I miss it a lot.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

I get really homesick inside.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

I'm a nostalgic guy.

I wish I had never left England

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'