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Thomas Wolfe Quotes about Home

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Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: [Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the

Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.

Thomas Wolfe
Home, Night, Land

...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can't Go Home Again

Thomas Wolfe
Memories, Home, Dark

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Thomas Wolfe
Love, Wall, Home
Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.

Thomas Wolfe
Home, Men, Years
Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

Thomas Wolfe
Time, Home, Winning
Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

You can't go home again

Thomas Wolfe
Inspirational, Home, Loss
Title of novel (1940)

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

Thomas Wolfe
Home, America, Purpose
Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.57, Thomas Wolfe

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