This article deliberates on the connotations of the word homesickness. Nostalgia comes from the Greek "nostos" for "return home" and "algia" for pain. The "Oxford English Dictionary," defines it as a form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from one's home or country or a severe homesickness. The nostalgia or sickness comes from a return home, a return to a home that is changed from the passing of time—that is no longer the ideal home of memory. Love, then, opens the doors of memory, of childhood familiarities and happiness; hence love accesses the desire to go back to a past that, because closed by time, resides in the rosy light of a lost paradise. In his poetical voyage around the world, poet George Gordon Byron's quintessential Byronic hero, Ghilde Harold, surveys battles, historical sites, the haunts and birthplaces of writers and philosophers. The erotics of homesickness as articulated by the Byronic hero shape a concept of subjectivity based on failure—the failure of love, of finding a home, of finding meaning. The homesick subject, always longing, points to an ideal it can never have. But at the heart of this failure lies an ontology of escape, of this very lostness completing being.