We all want to come home eventually. But for globe-trotters filled with wanderlust, home is wherever we happen to be at the moment.
Home is a special place, a sanctuary where we can be ourselves without judgement. It’s no wonder that homes are featured prominently in literature and films—they’re symbols of safety, comfort, and love. As global citizens and world travelers, we often have to say goodbye to our homes as we embark on new adventures. But that doesn’t mean that our love for them ever goes away. In fact, traveling around the world only makes us appreciate our homes even more.
Whether you’re on a beach in Thailand or a cafe in Paris, these quotes about home will remind you of why you fell in love with traveling in the first place. Quoting your favorite home sayings can give you a sense of grounding when the world feels like it’s spinning out of control. Even if you’re not currently living in your home country, or if you’re constantly on the go, these phrases can remind you of what matters most.
Hopefully, these home quotes will also make you homesick for your favorite places in the world. So sit back, relax, and enjoy these beautiful words about that special feeling we all get when we finally return “home.”
Home Quotes
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou
. . . the home is the one place where we can be ourselves and shut out negativity from the world outside. It’s so important to have a place where we can go and feel protected from it all; it’s something we all deserve.
Pia Edberg
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world — impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.
Charles Baudelaire
There is no place more delightful than home.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott
The street becomes a dwelling for the flâneur; he is as much at home among the facades of houses as a citizen is in his four walls.
Walter Benjamin
Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
Henry Van Dyke
HOME is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.
Samuel Smiles
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
Henry David Thoreau
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
Michel de Montaigne
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
May Sarton
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
Cesare Pavese
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
Home is where one starts from.
T. S. Eliot
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
James A. Baldwin
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever i find myself.
Maya Angelou
We’re all just walking each other home.
Ram Dass
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.
Maya Angelou
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny the Elder
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Kin Hubbard
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
Charity begins at home.
Terence
God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister Eckhart
If i were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
Helen Rowland
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh
I believe wherever dreams dwell, the heart calls it home. So may you untangle yourself from the twist of melancholy and let your thoughts carry you back to the birthplace of your truth.
Dodinsky
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
John Cheever
A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realized what’s changed is you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
Stephen King
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J.K. Rowling
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
Henry David Thoreau
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar
It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.
Danzy Senna
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
George Moore
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
Robert Southey
To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,
That’s the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
Robert Burns
When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Thornton Wilder
One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening – the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life – and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.
Daniel Handler
For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
Abraham Cowley
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott
Happy will that house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, ‘Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.’ And so it starts.
Joseph Campbell
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens
Let your home be your mast and not your anchor.
Kahlil Gibran
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
John Muir
I want my home to be that kind of place–a place of sustenance, a place of invitation, a place of welcome.
Mary DeMuth
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home?
Henry David Thoreau
We must take care of our families wherever we find them.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The payoff isn’t just a clean house – it’s a more satisfying, more meaningful life. Minimalism is an indispensable key to the better life you’ve been searching for all along.
Joshua Becker
If you want to declutter your home, this simply means that you’re making an effort to have a simpler house.
Beth Jones
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
Charles Dickens
Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
Isak Dinesen
Anxiety brings anger. Anger destroys our health and friendly atmosphere in our home.
Dalai Lama
A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension and worry.
Wilferd Peterson
For there’s never any laughter, howsoever far you roam, like the laughter of the loved ones in the happiness of home.
Edgar A Guest
Oh, but we’re grateful an’ glad to be there.
Home from the east land an’ home from the west,
Home with the folks that are dearest an’ best.
Edgar A
Once you have experienced what your house feels like when it is completely tidy in the true sense of the term, you will never want to return to clutter, and the strength of that feeling will empower you to keep it tidy.
Marie Kondo
Parting Words
Home quotes can be a great reminder of the importance of home, no matter where in the world you are. They can also provide comfort and a sense of belonging during times when it feels like home is far away.
While the quotes we’ve shared may not all resonate with you, we hope that at least one has given you a bit of solace or perspective on your own sense of what “home” is.
For those of you who are always on the go, traveling the world, know that you are always at home. Home is found in moments of connection with others or in finding beauty in the everyday. The flaneur is at home everywhere in the world.
What’s your favorite quote about home? Leave a comment and let us know. We’d love to hear from you.
P.S. You might also like these related quote collections:
- Quotes About Solo Travel
- Quotes About Exploration
- Quotes About Memories
- Quotes About Moments
- Quotes About Enjoying the Moment
Originally Published: November 17, 2022
✍️ Cusco, Peru
