Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.


Aleksandar Hemon

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA
Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER
When you are on the air, there is no land you need to call home.
GRIGORIS DEOUDIS
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have a...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go ba...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us....
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everythin...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly di...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publis...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unr...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perha...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations ab...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to f...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can&#...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing h...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place f...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germin...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow i...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it w...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Memory narrativises itself.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not com...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. Th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When 28,000 buildings fall do you know how many walls are no longer there?
ANDREA GIBSON
I saw him because I see everything. Easy when no one notices you.
RICHELLE MEAD
When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...
ECKHART TOLLE
Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get ther...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect wa...
P.S. BABER
There is always a zone where somebody is nobody; there is always a zone where somebody is somebody a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
COCO CHANEL
On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is movi...
EMMANUEL LUBEZKI
We all have moments when we think nobody sees us. When we feel like we have to act out or be somebod...
JOHN DAVID ANDERSON
For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into ...
ANONYMOUS
Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
ROBERT FROST
There is no shame in feeling bad about having to kill. The shame comes when you no longer care.
ROBYN WIDEMAN
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no long...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no long...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
There are no precedents in law dealing with a tragedy of this type where somebody intentionally caus...
VICTOR SCHWARTZ
When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.
BERNARD LAGAT
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt witho...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is...
LYN YUTANG
Would you think of somebody who you adore, who’s no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover �...
BENJAMIN ZANDER
When quiting is no longer an option, you're half way there.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Home is not where you live, but where you are understood.
CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: B...
HERMANN HESSE
If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are...
SUZANNE COLLINS
When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.
ECKHART TOLLE
Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.
GEORGE LAZENBY
We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy ...
AMI AYALON
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of ...
JACQUES PREVERT
Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.
POLA NEGRI
Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.
DALAI LAMA
A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
JEFFREY FRY
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since the...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
When it comes to learning, there are no boundaries and restrictions literally; all you have to do is...
AULIQ-ICE
There comes a point where you realize you no longer wish to be taken advantage if, it is you and onl...
N. S. COLE
Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
MARGARET MEAD
Good or bad, let them talk, for when they talk no more, you no longer are ...
ANGELICA NIGHTINGALE
There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are alw...
BRIAN MOORE
When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
JOE DIMAGGIO
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop o...
ERIC CANTONA
We ask them to think outside the box when they are nominating. It may be the quiet, shy girl no one ...
CHéRI PIERRE
There is no logic for the staff's position. Somebody needs to show me where those roads will connect...
JOEL TEW
Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where...
NAWAL EL SAADAWI
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at nig...
MARGARET MEAD
No matter where you go, there you are,
YOGI BERRA
No matter where you go, there you are.
BUCKAROO BANZAI
No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer ...
CHRIS CLEAVE
You are old only when your soul can no longer love, smile or hope.
OUSSAMA HEDHLI
They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them i...
DIANE ARBUS
You should always be aware of your surroundings, and always be conscious of the fact that no matter ...
STEVE LOUCKS
When no one need you to comeback home.. Keep strong... Because they are still a home for you.. Your ...
JAY
when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
PIERRE BOULEZ
Home, is where the heart longs to be when you dream.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS
You don't know what you're going to find when you arrive. There are inaccessible areas. Conditions a...
LESLY SIMMONS
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at...
MARGARET MEAD

More Aleksandar Hemon

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have a...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go ba...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us....
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everythin...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly di...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publis...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unr...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perha...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations ab...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to f...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can&#...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing h...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place f...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germin...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow i...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it w...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Memory narrativises itself.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown ...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not com...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. Th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane da...
ALEKSANDER HEMON
Religija budućnosti nastaje na internetu, a kao lažni proroci biti blokirani svi oni koji ne budu ...
ALEKSANDAR ILIć
If we can't sing in harmony it's better we don't appear in Europe.
ALEKSANDAR TIJANIC
The document included some issues which have not been discussed at all.
ALEKSANDAR SIMIC
The decision about what happens regarding the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign in case of a split is al...
ALEKSANDAR BOSKOVIC
We will cross that bridge when we come to it because right now, we are focused on doing well in the ...
ALEKSANDAR BOSKOVIC
We are aware of the possibility and in no way do we wish to prejudice the outcome of this issue.
ALEKSANDAR BOSKOVIC
After the flop we are not the same people.
ALEKSANDAR KRSTANOSKI
Savremeni svet treba posmatrati sa marketinške distance.
ALEKSANDAR ILIć
Kad se čovek izloguje, kao da je umro. Oflajn je čist limb: prokleta i diskonektovana duša tumara...
ALEKSANDAR ILIć
Nestankom interneta svet kakav poznajemo bi se raspao i prestao da postoji. U tom usporenom, postapo...
ALEKSANDAR ILIć
Pre interneta svet je bio veći. Sa interentom je beskonačniji. Veći jer je sve bilo nedostupnije ...
ALEKSANDAR ILIć
U korporativnom svetu menadžer spada u kategoriju evolucionih prepreka.
ALEKSANDAR ILIć