You Can't Go Home Again

American  

noun

1. a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.

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You can't go home again Cultural  

1. You can't recover the past. This saying is the title of a novel by the twentieth-century American author Thomas Wolfe.

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Example Sentences

At first glance, to say “You can’t go home again” seems absurd, for most of us go home every day, assuming we have left our houses in the first place.

From Literature

That is the moment when the words “You can’t go home again” toll their sad bell of truth.

From Literature

“Who says you can’t go home again?”

From Los Angeles Times

You can’t go home again, wrote Thomas Wolfe, but F. Scott Fitzgerald said you can repeat the past — of course you can.

From Los Angeles Times

So much has changed, and maybe you can’t go home again.

From Seattle Times