Erik Paulsen Quotes

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

I miss my family all the time.

I can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.

I've been away from my family even when I was in France.

It's difficult when your family are not physically around you.

I miss my family every single day.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

I miss my parents a lot. I obviously don't see them loads anyway because they live up north. But knowing that they're only a couple of hours away is a lot different than knowing that they're 12 hours away.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

I don't like being away from home.

I think the biggest challenge when I'm on the road is being away from my family.

I don't like being away from my family, I genuinely don't.

When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.

Six months away from family and friends is a long time. Emotionally, you go through some ups and downs. Life changes on the ground, and you have to ready for that. Life changes for you up here as well.