36 Inspiring Moving Quotes

Moving can be both an exciting adventure and a daunting challenge. Whether you're transitioning to a new home, city, or even country, the experience is often filled with a mix of emotions. To help you navigate this journey, we've curated a collection of the top 36 inspiring moving quotes. These words of wisdom, motivation, and comfort are here to encourage and inspire you as you embark on your next chapter. Dive in and let these quotes remind you that change, while sometimes difficult, can be a powerful catalyst for growth and new beginnings.

1. “Consider A MoveThe steady time of being unknown,in solitude, without friends,is not a steadiness that sustains.I hear your voice waver on the phone:Haven't talked to anyone for days.I drive around. I sit in parking lots.The voice zeroes through my ear, and waits.What should I say? There are waysto meet people you will want to love?I know of none. You come out strongerhaving gone through this? I no longerbelieve that, if I once did. Consider a move,a change, a job, a new place to live,someplace you'd like to be. That's not it,you say. Now time turns back. We almost touch.Then what is? I ask. What is?” - Michael Ryan

2. “A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.” - Amy Hempel

3. “I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” - Judith Minty

4. “Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.” - Milan Kundera

5. “When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.” - Rodney Dangerfield

6. “I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.” - R. A. Salvatore

7. “There aren't any rules to running away from your problems. No checklist of things to cross off. No instructions. Eeny, meeny, pick a path and go. That's how my dad does it anyway because apparently there's no age limit to running away, either. He wakes up one day, packs the car with everything we own, and we hit the road. Watch all the pretty colors go by until he finds a town harmless enough to hide in. But his problems always find us. Sometimes quicker than others. Sometimes one month and sometimes six. There's no rule when it comes to that, either. Not about how long it takes for the problems to catch up with us. Just that they will—that much is a given. And then it's time to run again to a new town, a new home, and a new school for me.But if there aren't any rules, I wonder why it feels the same every time. Feels like I leave behind a little bit of who I was in each house we've left empty. Scattering pieces of me in towns all over the place. A trail of crumbs dotting the map from everywhere we've left to everywhere we go. And they don't make any pictures when I connect dots. They are random like the stars littering the sky at night.” - Brian James

8. “She was remorseless, but she lacked method.” - Diana Wynne Jones

9. “Reality isn‘t round, it‘s flat. There are edges where you can fall off and this October when I moved to Maine, I fell off one.” - Carrie Jones

10. “I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s poetry, I’ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.” - Jan Neruda

11. “O love, O fire! once he drewWith one long kiss my whole soul throughMy lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

12. “Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.” - Lurlene McDaniel

13. “My, my. A body does get around.” - William Faulkner

14. “And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.” - Sylvia Plath

15. “It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.” - Lisi Harrison

16. “We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

17. “He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.” - Benjamin Franklin

18. “It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.” - Wallace Stegner

19. “Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry.'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...''But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!''Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.” - J.K. Rowling

20. “After five years I still had the impulse, every ten to twelve months, to find a new home. Spaces became too familiar, too elastic, too accommodating. Boredom and exasperation would set in. And though of course nothing really changed from one roof to another, I liked to harbor the illusion that small variations occurred within, that with each move something was being renewed.” - Chloe Aridjis

21. “People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.” - Jonathan Safran Foer

22. “My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted and impatient with my sister, by the way she stopped tucking us into bed at night. I knew it from watching her feet, which began to shuffle after my father announced the move, as though they threw down invisible roots that needed to be pulled out with each step.” - Catherine Chung

23. “Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.” - Tahir Shah

24. “Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.” - Tahir Shah

25. “Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.” - Tahir Shah

26. “Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.” - Gianna Perada

27. “People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.” - Eric Jerome Dickey

28. “[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

29. “Originally, the cellar served primarily as a coal store. Today it holds the boiler, idle suitcases, out-of-season sporting equipment, and many sealed cardboard boxes that are almost never opened but are always carefully transferred from house to house with every move in the belief that one day someone might want some baby clothes that have been kept in a box for twenty-five years.” - Bill Bryson

30. “But I don't think she ever figured on raising a son by herself. Her family was supposed to form a circle. Now we walk around like a photograph that my dad's been cut out of.” - Kendare Blake

31. “There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.” - Richard Proenneke

32. “Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.” - Arthur Hailey

33. “The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.” - Haruki Murakami

34. “the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.” - Terra Elan McVoy

35. “There are a number of advantages to moving yourself, with saving money being number one. I have done professional loading and unloading for countless shippers. Most were looking at savings of approximately fifty percent when all expenses were considered. These were people who were moving mostly 8,000 pound or less of furniture (household goods)-- the weight of the contents of the average small three-bedroom home and the maximum usable (as opposed to advertised) capacity of the largest rental trucks.Moving yourself has other advantages too. Weather and road conditions permitting, the move will go on your schedule. You won’t have to worry about coordinating with your movers for delivery because you are the movers. There is also the security of knowing exactly where your stuff is with no worries about delays, mixed-up shipments or theft.” - Jerry G. West

36. “A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.” - Jane Stanton Hitchcock