51 Home Quotes To Inspire

There's something profoundly comforting about the idea of home. It's more than just four walls and a roof; it's a sanctuary where we find peace, love, and a sense of belonging. For some, home is a quiet place to rejuvenate, while for others, it's a bustling hub filled with laughter and memories. To celebrate the diversity and the deep emotions associated with this special place, we've curated a list of 51 inspiring home quotes. Each quote beautifully encapsulates the essence of what home means, providing not just comfort, but also motivation and reflection. Get ready to be inspired and reminded of the heartwarming essence of home.

1. “Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.” - Gaston Bachelard

2. “It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!” - Eugene O'Neill

3. “Home is the nicest word there is.” - Laura Ingalls Wilder

4. “Euer Haus ist euer größerer Körper.” - Khalil Gibran

5. “Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life.” But he continued “which would be your second choice ” His answer “France.” - Thomas Jefferson

6. “Helen's Saigon had always been about selling - chickens, information, or lovely young women, it didn't matter. It had once been called the Pearl of the Orient, but by people who had not been there in a very long time. Saigon had never been Paris, but now it was a garrison town, unlovely, a stinking refugee shantyville filled with the angry, the betrayed, the dispossessed, but she had made it her home, and she couldn't bear that soon she would have to leave.” - Tatjana Soli

7. “Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ” - Aleksandar Hemon

8. “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

9. “I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.” - Marian Keyes

10. “Cuando estamos lejos de la patria nunca la recordamos en sus inviernos. La distancia borra las penas del invierno, las poblaciones desamparadas, los niños descalzos en el frío. El arte del recuerdo sólo nos trae campiñas verdes, flores amarillas y rojas, el cielo azulado del himno nacional.” - Pablo Neruda

11. “The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.” - Danielle Raine

12. “Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.” - Hugo Hamilton

13. “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

14. “These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out.” - Rebecca Wells

15. “By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.” - Rabih Alameddine

16. “Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day's long toil is past,And each heart is whispering, 'Home,Home at last.” - Thomas Hood

17. “There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.” - Abe Kōbō

18. “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

19. “Parents should also question much of the contemporary emphasis on special materials and equipment for learning in a child's environment. A clutter of toys can be more confusing than satisfying to a child. On the other hand, natural situations, with opportunieties to explore, seldom overstimulate or trouble a small child. Furthermore, most children will find greater satisfaction and demonsstrate greater learning from things they make and do with their parents or other people than from elaborate toys or learning materials. And there is no substitute for solitude - in the sandpile, mud puddle, or play area - for a yound child to work out his own fantasies. Yet this privilege is often denied in our anxiety to institutionalize children.” - Raymond S. Moore

20. “The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.” - Maggie Stiefvater

21. “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

22. “olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest.” - R.J. Palacio

23. “Home. Wow. I’m already calling it home.Well, isn’t that what any place is? Any place that you share withsomeone you love, I mean?” - Meg Cabot

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “This land, although not my native land,Will be remembered forever.And the sea's lightly iced,Unsalty water.The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk,The air is heady, like wine,And the rosy body of the pinesIs naked in the sunset hour.And the sunset itself on such waves of etherThat I just can't comprehendWhether it is the end of the day, the end of the world,Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.” - Anna Akhmatova

28. “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. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.” - Rebecca Solnit

29. “How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.” - William Kittredge

30. “Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important - it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not - but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone.” - Nick Harkaway

31. “He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.” - Eugene O'Neill

32. “All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete.” - Christian Lander

33. “The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” - Banana Yoshimoto

34. “Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.” - G.K. Chesterton

35. “With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.” - Leo Tolstoy

36. “Friedensliebe zeigt sich gerade darin, daß man seine Heimat nicht vergißt und eben deshalb entschlossen ist, alles zu tun, um immer in Frieden miteinander zu leben."[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]” - Richard von Weizsäcker

37. “...what happens when you returnand find nothingbut a hollowed shell,shingles and floor,walls and echoesand the light that lead you herehas now burned outand the ones who built ithave traveled afarand you cant go to them,no matter what shoes you wear.” - Kellie Elmore

38. “It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came.""I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood."Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it.” - Clifford D. Simak

39. “Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.” - Aleksandr Voinov

40. “Und was passiert, wenn du nicht mehr da bist, um [...] mich immer daran zu erinnern, wie ein Zuhause ist?” - P.C. Cast

41. “When you break something, is your first impulse to throw it away? Or do you repair it but feel a sadness because it is no longer "perfect"? Whatever the case, you might want to consider the way the Japanese treated the items used in their tea ceremony. Even though they were made from the simplest materials... these teacups and bowls were revered for their plain lines and spiritual qualities. There were treated with the utmost care, integrity and respect.For this reason, a cup from the tea ceremony was almost never broken. When an accident did occur and a cup was broken, there were certain instances in which the cup was repaired with gold. Rather than trying to restore it in a what they would cover the gace that it ahad been broken, the cracks were celebrated in a bold and spirited way. The thin paths of shining gold completely encircled the ceramic cup, announcing to the world that the cup was broken and repaired and vulnerable to change.And in this way, its value was even further enhanced.” - Gary Thorp

42. “إن قـلبـي لــبــلادي لا لحزبٍ أو زعيمِلم أبِعـهُ لشقيـقٍ أو صديقٍ لي حميمِلـيـس مـنـي لو أراه مرَّةً غيـرَ سليـمولساني كـفـؤادي نيطَ منه بالـصَّـمـيـموغدي يُشبه يومي وحديثي كقديمـيلـم أَهبْ غـيـظَ كريم لا ولا كيْـدَ لـئـيـمغايتي خدمةُ قومي بشقائي أو نعيمي” - إبراهيم طوقان

43. “She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove” - T.M. Williams

44. “With languages, you are at home anywhere.” - Edward DeWall

45. “Space is a precious thing to waste. You don't want to fill your house with anything that doesn't directly add to your happiness.” - Sherry Petersik

46. “But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes.” - Lorrie Moore

47. “Then a calm fell upon him. The gushing began from all sorts of places, all over his body. He heard pleasurable little giggles on the outer edges of his mind, in the dark creases behind his thoughts. He felt good, better than he’d felt in years. As if he were inside a huge embrace. And he felt as if he had finally reached the right place, his home, his motherland.” - David Grossman

48. “home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.” - William S. Burroughs

49. “The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

50. “You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try” - Sarah Dessen

51. “The stag’s enormous head turned slightly—toward the wagon, toward the small window.The Lord of the North.So the people of Terrasen will always know how to find their way home, she’d once told Ansel as they lay under a blanket of stars and traced the constellation of the stag. So they can look up at the sky, no matter where they are, and know Terrasen is forever with them.” - Sarah J. Maas