Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domicile. It is nostalgia for love and loss themselves, a soul-sickness caused by the very idea of leaving.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I get homesick.
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.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.