Home — a four-letter word that holds an entire universe of feelings. It’s where we find comfort, create memories, and build our lives.
Let’s explore the warmth, love, and nostalgia that make our homes truly special with a wonderful collection of quotes about home, the best ones I could find online.
Let them remind you why there’s no place like home!
1. “A home is more than a house. It’s a history, a legacy, and a sanctuary of the heart.” — James Patterson
2. “Find the place where love, certainty, consistency, reassurance, and most importantly, peace reside, and make that your destination. Once you arrive, remain there and make it your home.” ― Jennifer Pierre
3. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” ― George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith
4. “If light is in your heart you will find your way home.” ― Rumi
5. “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.” ― Warsan Shire
6. “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
7. “Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.” ― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
8. “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” ― Robert Frost
9. “Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.” ― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
10. “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
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1. “People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.” ― Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2. “I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.” ― Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
3. “Home, sweet home. There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” — Jane Austen
4. “Home is the canvas upon which we paint the colors of our lives, creating a masterpiece of memories, we find solace, comfort, and the freedom to be who we are.” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
5. “Home is where ‘I know you’, ‘I accept you’, ‘I forgive you’, and ‘I love you’ are most likely to be heard.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
6. “Home, sweet home. This is the place to find happiness. If one doesn’t find it here, one doesn’t find it anywhere.” – M. K. Soni
7. “I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.” ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
8. “… home was not just a cabin in a deep woods that overlooked a placid cove. Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life.” ― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone
9. “The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love.” ― Rebecca Solnit
10. “The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.” ― Edward Young
11. “When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.” ― Catherynne M. Valente
12. “The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.” ― Orson Scott Card, Hidden Empire
13. “Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth.” ― Karen Maitland, Company of Liars
14. “What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.” ― Gladys Hunt
15. “The home of every soul is not among another’s glory, but should be within another’s soul.” ― Yixing Zhang
16. “What was home, really? Just a place to lay your head. No. It was so much more than that. It was a place where a person belonged. Where a fellow would be missed. It was a part of a man. Something that couldn’t be sold or taken for granted.” ― Suzanne Woods Fisher
17. “I don’t want to say something cheesy like ‘home is where the heart is,’ but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.” ― Melissa Senate, The Breakup Club
18. ”A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.” — Dalai Lama
19. “But even if every house looked identical — if all the furnishings were the same — it still wouldn’t feel like yours. That’s because home isn’t where you are. It’s who you’re with.” ― Jodi Picoult, Off the Page
20. “Home is where our stories begin, where memories are woven, and where comfort embraces us.” — Unknown
21. “I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
22. “Your home is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night, and it is not dreamless.” — Kahlil Gibran
23. “For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.” ― Roger Caras
24. “Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted, but rather where you are welcomed — by the people, the walls, the tiles on the floor, the followers beside the door, the play of life, the very grass.” ― Scott Russell Sanders
25. “Peace and rest at length have come, all the day’s long toil is past, and each heart is whispering, ‘Home, home at last.” ― Thomas Hood
26. “Home is where love resides, memories are created, and laughter never ends. While a house is made of bricks and beams, a home is built with love and dreams” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
27. “Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.” ― Dermot Bolger, The Journey Home
28. “The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.” ― Terry Pratchett
29. “Home is not just a physical place; it’s an anchor for the soul, a refuge in a chaotic world. It is where the story begins and where our hearts always long to return. No matter how far we wander, home is the place that calls us back, whispering, ‘You belong”.” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
30. “We carry within us every home, including those that no longer exist, so we’d have somewhere to return to.” ― Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
31. “Home is where we celebrate and where we grieve, where we are hurt, broken and healed, and made whole again.” ― Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
32. “Home is the starting place of love, hope, and dreams. It’s the place where families gather and friendships are made. It’s also the place where we all need to be healthy, safe and comfortable” ― Homebestchoice
33. “[T]here is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
34. “Home isn’t where you’re born. It’s where you feel calm and peace, even in a storm.” ― Jeremy Szal, Stormblood
35. “Home is the hanky-panky of memory — honeyed, quilted — a fabulous once-upon-a-time lull.” ― Upamanyu Chatterjee, The Last Burden
36. “The home is the chief school of human virtues.” — William Ellery Channing
37. “Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.” — Charles Henry Parkhurst
38. “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.” — Mother Teresa
39. “Let your home be your mast and not your anchor.” — Kahlil Gibran
40. “Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” — John Howard Payne
1. “Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.” ― Josh Gates
2. “Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don’t be afraid to feel.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
3. “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.” ― Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate
4. “Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.” ― Dennis Lehane
5. “I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.” ― James Patterson
6. “Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.” ― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
7. “You feel more like home to me than any place I’ve ever been.” ― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After
8. “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” ― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay
9. “But in truth, home isn’t necessarily where you sleep at night. It’s where you feel like yourself. Where you’re most comfortable. Where you don’t have to pretend, where you can just be you.” ― Elizabeth Eulberg, Better Off Friends
10. “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, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
11. “In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.” ― Tyler Knott Gregson
12. “One never reaches home,’ she said. ‘But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.” ― Hermann Hesse
13. “There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” ― Homer, The Odyssey
14. “I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.” ― Jean Cocteau
15. “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell
16. “It wasn’t exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.” ― Nikki Rowe
17. “And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.” ― Ben Sherwood
18. “The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
19. “Home for me is not where I am. Home for me is a physical structure where the girl whom I love is sheltered and protected from the incoming storms of life. Home for me is not where I am safe, but where she is safe. Home for me is not where she exists, but where she lives. She is my home.” ― Juansen Dizon
20. “Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” ― Anthony Liccione
21. “The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.” ― J.R. Miller, Home-Making
22. “Home isn’t a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.” ― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In
23. “Our homes, imperfect as they are, must be a haven from the chaos outside. They should be a reflection of our eternal home, where troubled souls find peace, weary hearts find rest, hungry bodies find refreshment, lonely pilgrims find communion, and wounded spirits find compassion.” ― Jani Ortlund
24. “Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it’s not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.” ― Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
25. “If your life’s at a juncture and you need to think about things, there’s nowhere better than home. However old you are.” ― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
25. “There is no place in the universe as inviting as home and the comfortable relationships there.” ― Brian Herbert
26. “Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect.” ― Mabel Hale, Beautiful Girlhood: A Timeless Guide for Christian Adolescense
27. “There is one family: Mankind. There is one religion: Humanity. There is one home: Earth.” ― Sandesh Hukpachongbang
28. “I am a firm believer in family life. I feel that the home is the foundation of true happiness…much more the foundation than the church (or temple) or the school can ever be.” ― Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
29. “Home. It’s such a simple word, one I never knew would come to mean as much to me as it has. It once was my dad’s house, then my uncle’s farm. Mostly it’s meant wherever Charlie and I were together. Now, though, it’s you. It’s your letters, your words. They’re the place I go to with my fears, where I find comfort, where I feel safe.” ― Kristina McMorris, Letters from Home
30. “One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” ― Herman Hesse
31. “Where you live, where you love, where you breathe–that is where your home will be.” ― Farah Naz Rishi, It All Comes Back to You
32. “When you’re inside of your home, it should feel like your sanctuary. A haven for comfort, inspiration, safety, and love. Invest in ways to create that type of atmosphere for yourself. Aesthetically and security-wise.” ― Robin S. Baker
33. “Paradise. A paradise it was in its majestic silence of cold wintry conditions. The world is a collection of paradises and my home is a sparkling paradise.” ― Tshetrim Tharchen, A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars
34. “Home could be many things. It did not have to be a place. It could be a person. Or perhaps a feeling.” ― Renée Ahdieh, The Righteous
35. “Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support.” — Wes Fesler
36. “Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.” ― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
37. “Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than any magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.” — Charles Dickens
38. “Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.” ― Stephen King, It
39. “Home — the blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.” — Lyda M. Child
40. “Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.” ― Harley King
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1. “You can go other places, all right — you can live on the other side of the world, but you can’t ever leave home.” ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
2. “I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.” ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
3. “You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will realize that nowhere seems like home anymore.” ― Shinji Moon
4. “It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
5. “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
6. “The farther away, the closer the home becomes.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987
7. “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” ― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
8. “Hotels are for leaving, Home is for returning.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It’s Time to Defect
9. “It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.” ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
10. “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
11. “To leave home. It’s gotta be worth leaving.” ― Brad Pitt
12. “In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.” ― Ari Berk, Death Watch
13. “You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
14. “No one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear saying — leave, run away from me now, I don’t know what I’ve become but I know that anywhere is safer than here.” ― Warsan Shire
15. “I regarded home as a place I left behind in order to come back to it afterward.” ― Ernest Hemingway
16. “You can’t go home again. If an experience was wonderful, don’t try to re-create it. It will never be as beautiful as it was the first time.” ― Iris Apfel, Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon
17. “I guess that’s the thing about coming home; it’s not the home that’s changed, it’s the person coming back who has.” ― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl
18. “You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place…like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” ― Azar Nafisi
19. “It’s never easy to leave one’s home, especially when there are only closed doors ahead of you.” ― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
20. “Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.” — Robert Neelly Bellah
21. Gaining the courage to leave home was the seed I had planted. I reaped a bountiful harvest, overflowing with dignity and pride — a concept lost on me, but for the lessons I learned at home.” — Unknown
22. “Leaving home is bittersweet, but it’s a journey that leads to growth and self-discovery.” — Unknown
23. “Leave home with a big, bright dream. Nurture it into a bigger, brighter reality.” — Unknown
24. “Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self-supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.” — John Bradshaw
25. “It’s not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I’ve done much longer trips on my own. It’s leaving home.” — Scott Westerfeld
26. “What is a home if not the first place you learn to run from?” ― Clementine von Radics
27. “My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you’re far away.” ― Aglaja Veteranyi
28. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.” — Terry Pratchett
29. “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” ― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
30. “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” — Maya Angelou
31. “Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to.” — John Ed Pearce
32. “Leaving home is not the end; it’s a new chapter waiting to be written.” — Unknown
33. “However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.” — Robert Neelly Bellah
34. “Leaving home is priceless because it illuminates for us the blessings of having one.” — Unknown
35. “The sweetest part of leaving home is knowing, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that you’ll always carry it with you.” — Unknown
36. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” — Twyla Tharp
37. “When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks… As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you’ll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.” — Kelly Cutrone
38. “We all die in a few tomorrows. We should leave this place content with the lives we’ve lived and the people and cultures we’ve experienced. Leave home — encounter the world around you. Learn — understand that marvelous creation. You will then be able to understand it and only then and never forgetting where you came from, decide who you really are.” — Unknown
39. “Leaving home doesn’t mean leaving behind the memories and love that shaped us.” — Unknown
40. “Though I leave home, our bond remains, traveling different pathways yet eternally connected.” — Angela Abraham
1. “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” ― James Baldwin
2. “Home is the nicest word there is.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.” ― William C. Faulkner
4. “Love abounds in the home space.” ― Sherry W Royer
5. “Home isn’t a place, its a feeling.” ― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie
6. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” ― Gary Snyder
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7. “Peace, like charity, begins at home.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. “Home is everything you can walk to.” ― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
9. “There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
10. “Home is where the heart is.” ― Carrie Jones, After Obsession
11. “Well, sometimes home is a person.” ― Beth Revis, A Million Suns
12. “Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.” ― Orson Scott Card
13. Home isn’t where your hat lands, but where your heart does.” ― Allene vanOirschot
14. “The longest road out is the shortest road home.” — Irish Proverb
15. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” ― Matsuo Bashô
16. “Home is where your books are.” ― Kerstin Gier
17. “Your true home is in the here and the now.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
18. “Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.” — Helen Rowland
19. “Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.” ― Alexandra Bracken
20. “Some people feel like home.” ― Sidra Surmed, The Open Wound: A Journey Within
21. “Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.” ― Paul Theroux
22. “And when you are kept from your home, no matter where you are, you are in a cage.” ― Shane Arbuthnott
23. “Regardless of one’s destination, all roads lead home.” ― Unknown
24. “Sometimes home is not a place, it is someone’s heart.” ― Nancy Omar
25. “Home is where my habits have a habitat.” ― Fiona Apple
26. “The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.” ― Bryant McGill
27. “No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.” — Laura Marney
28. “Much about home is imagining home.” ― Frances Mayes
29. “Home is where the scars from our childhood are the easiest to see.” ― Micaela Vee
30. “The only home you can dwell sacredly is your heart.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
31. “The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere.” — Albanian Proverb
32. “Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.” ― Elizabeth Lim
33. “Our power is in our homeplace, in our roots.” ― Sylvia Linsteadt
34. “Love is an endless coming home.” ― Ann Voskamp
35. “Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms.” — William J. Bennett
36. “Relationships are the “life” of the “body” that is a home.” ― Joshua Becker
37. “Love is knowing when you’ve come home.” ― Trent Dalton, Love Stories
38. “Peace — that was the other name for home.” — Kathleen Norris
39. “Home has always been whichever place I do the least pretending.” ― Morgan Nikola-Wren
40. “No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” ― J. E. McCulloch
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I believe this collection of quotes about home has reaffirmed your belief that home truly is where the heart is!
