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Source: Unsplash | Rows of homes with the quote: "The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."
Source: Unsplash | Rows of homes with the quote: "The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

106 Quotes on Homesickness to Pacify You on Life's Journey

Titi Dokubo
Feb 26, 2023
06:00 P.M.

Sometimes, even the most avid travelers tend to miss home, and that is okay. There is no shame in wanting the comfort of familiar surroundings over the adventure of finding new places. If you're away from home and missing it, read these 106 quotes on homesickness to help you cope.

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Homesickness is a feeling of sadness or nostalgia associated with being away from home. While it can be a normal response to a new environment, it can also signify a more severe problem. It could be caused by a change in lifestyle, cultural differences, a feeling of not belonging, and more.

You can identify these changes with symptoms like nervousness, sadness, low self-esteem, lack of appetite or concentration, feelings of isolation, loneliness, insecurity, and anxiety.

The effects of homesickness could lead to grief, depression, headaches, fatigue, and low productivity levels. To learn more about how it affects different people, read these 106 quotes on homesickness.

Hermann Hesse's quote: "One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect, the whole world looks like home for a time." | Image: AmoDays

Hermann Hesse's quote: "One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect, the whole world looks like home for a time." | Image: AmoDays

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Quotes on Homesickness to Keep You Pacified

"Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home." — A. N. Onymous

"If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home." — Malala Yousafzai

"I always wanted to travel, but now that I am, all I want is to go home." ― Rehan Khan

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home." — E. W. Howe

"Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life." ― Becky Chambers

Malala Yousafzai's quote: "If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home." | Image: AmoDays

Malala Yousafzai's quote: "If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home." | Image: AmoDays

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"Christmas is a time when you get homesick even when you're home." — Carol Nelson

"Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty." — Tyra Banks

"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time." — John Cheever

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have." — E. W. Howe

"If you've ever been homesick or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be." — Stephen King

Carol Nelson's quote: "Christmas is a time when you get homesick even when you're home." | Image: AmoDays

Carol Nelson's quote: "Christmas is a time when you get homesick even when you're home." | Image: AmoDays

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"Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing." — Irina Shayk

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you." — Christian Morgenstern

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself." — Maya Angelou

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." — Oliver Wendell Holmes

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." — Dale Carnegie

Irina Shayk's quote: "Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing." | Image: AmoDays

Irina Shayk's quote: "Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing." | Image: AmoDays

"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." — Robert Montgomery

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"If you know you're going home, the journey is never too hard." — Angela Wood

"Home is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return." — Leo Christopher

"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — Winnie the Pooh

"Our house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy." — Robyn Griggs Lawrence

Robert Montgomery's quote: "Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." | Image: AmoDays

Robert Montgomery's quote: "Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." | Image: AmoDays

"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. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." — Terry Pratchett

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"I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood." — Melissa Cox

"There's no shame in feeling homesick. It means you come from a happy home." — Mrs. Hughes, "Downton Abbey"

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." — Carson McCullers

"I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me." — Alice Steinbach

Melissa Cox's quote: "I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood." | Image: AmoDays

Melissa Cox's quote: "I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood." | Image: AmoDays

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"Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow that way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade…It can change the way one looks at the world." — Stephen King

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to." — John Ed Pearce

"Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was." — Jodi Picoult

"The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back." — Wendy Wunder

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect, the whole world looks like home for a time." — Hermann Hesse

John Ed Pearce's quote: "Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to." | Image: AmoDays

John Ed Pearce's quote: "Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to." | Image: AmoDays

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"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

Quotes on Homesickness for When You're Missing Home

"You know, it's funny what you'll miss when you're away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee...and bacon frying in the morning." — Fannie Flagg

"Does it make you tired, being so far away from what you know? That's how I feel sometimes, that I would just like to crawl in a hole somewhere and rest. Go dormant, like those toad frogs Mattie told us about. And for you it's just that much worse; you're not even speaking your own language." — Barbara Kingsolver

"I don't even know anymore which home I miss. Which level of home. In Guatemala City, I missed the mountains. My own language is not Spanish, did you know that?" — Barbara Kingsolver

"Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way." — Kenneth Grahame

Edith Sitwell's quote: "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." | Image: AmoDays

Edith Sitwell's quote: "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." | Image: AmoDays

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"'When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.'" — Donna Tartt

"But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome." — Kenneth Grahame

"That was my place. A sleepy little town tucked away in the rangy coast of British Columbia—worlds away from the sunshine state I used to call home." — Bianca Scardoni

"I've never had the same house, or the same room for more than a few years, and sometimes I feel like the little pieces of me on this chain are all I have." — Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, "Beautiful Creatures"

"I would go home to eat, but I could not make myself eat much; and my father and mother thought that I was sick yet; but I was not. I was only homesick for the place where I had been." — John G. Neihardt

Donna Tartt's quote: "'When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.'" | Image: AmoDays

Donna Tartt's quote: "'When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.'" | Image: AmoDays

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"Jamie was quiet for a minute, then he said, 'We probably have no conscience. I think we ought to be homesick. Do you think Mom and Dad raised us wrong? They're not very mean, you know; don't you think that should make us miss them?'" — E.L. Konigsburg

"I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish. It's getting toward autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear—with a little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out." — George Selden

"Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?" ― J.R.R. Tolkien

"Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; / And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; / And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; / But when it comes to living there is no place like home." ― Henry Van Dyke

"Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing." ― Elizabeth Gaskell

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E.L. Konigsburg's quote: "Jamie was quiet for a minute, then he said, 'We probably have no conscience. I think we ought to be homesick. Do you think Mom and Dad raised us wrong? They're not very mean, you know; don't you think that should make us miss them?'" | Image: AmoDays

E.L. Konigsburg's quote: "Jamie was quiet for a minute, then he said, 'We probably have no conscience. I think we ought to be homesick. Do you think Mom and Dad raised us wrong? They're not very mean, you know; don't you think that should make us miss them?'" | Image: AmoDays

"Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget." ― Publius Ovidius Naso

"Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure―one that leads me back home." ― Donna Lynn Hope

"When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company for a while." ― Erri De Luca

"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

"Because that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don't simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again." ― Elif Shafak

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Publius Ovidius Naso's quote: "Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget." | Image: AmoDays

Publius Ovidius Naso's quote: "Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget." | Image: AmoDays

"Few things are more important than finding a home and working at it constantly to make it resonate with deep memories and fulfill deep longings." ― Thomas Moore

"She and her brother, harvesting those long, tall flowers, some almost as tall as they were. She bit into a husk. Her nostrils filled with a hay-like scent that seemed to linger on her fingers. Even now, she knew the familiar fragrance…" ― Suzy Davies

"Homesickness is a sickness of the heart, not of the mind. It is deeply subjective and belongs, inarguably, to the sufferer alone." ― Kate Mulgrew

"How phenomenal we, humans, are – the further we are from our beloved home, the stronger our connection becomes…" ― Tamuna Tsertsvadze

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"Homesickness was an adjustment disorder, that was the long and short of it." ― Aminatta Forna

Thomas Moore's quote: "Few things are more important than finding a home and working at it constantly to make it resonate with deep memories and fulfill deep longings." | Image: AmoDays

Thomas Moore's quote: "Few things are more important than finding a home and working at it constantly to make it resonate with deep memories and fulfill deep longings." | Image: AmoDays

"But the thing was — those books were what made my days bearable. They were what helped me sleep at night without my homesickness choking me. Without books, what was there to look forward to?" ― Aisha Saeed

"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling." ― Nina Mingya Powles

"I'd heard of homesickness, but I hadn't known that one could experience it prior to actually leaving a place." ― Daniel Thorman

"New York was home for Czerny, the same way Chicago was home for me. You don't really know how attached you are until you move away, until you've experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place." ― Michelle Obama

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"Many a time of an evening, when I sat alone looking at the fire, I thought, after all, there was no fire like the forge fire and the kitchen fire at home." ― Charles Dickens

Aisha Saeed's quote: "But the thing was — those books were what made my days bearable. They were what helped me sleep at night without my homesickness choking me. Without books, what was there to look forward to?" | Image: AmoDays

Aisha Saeed's quote: "But the thing was — those books were what made my days bearable. They were what helped me sleep at night without my homesickness choking me. Without books, what was there to look forward to?" | Image: AmoDays

"I don't think the homesickness of a perpetual wanderer can ever be quenched." ― Sasha Martin

"Sometimes the only thing that can make someone feel misplaced is the sight of home." ― A.L. Buehrer

"No matter where I go, I'll never forget home. I can feel its heartbeat a thousand miles away. Home is the place where I grew my wings." ― Brenda Sutton Rose

"My homesickness is a tangible thing, like a cannon ball of sadness, just pushing into my heart." ― Heather Day Gilbert

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"It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my mother's warm tortillas and many more things than I can name." ― Ruth Behar

Sasha Martin's quote: "I don't think the homesickness of a perpetual wanderer can ever be quenched." | Image: AmoDays

Sasha Martin's quote: "I don't think the homesickness of a perpetual wanderer can ever be quenched." | Image: AmoDays

"Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city." ― Christos Tsiolkas

"Even in Kyoto when I hear the cuckoo I long for Kyoto." ― Richard Flanagan

Quotes on Homesickness to Help You along Your Journey

"I was once young. / I was traveling alone, / and lost my way; / I thought myself rich / when I met another: / Man is the Joy of man." — Hávamál

"Although traveling as a guest is fun, but not as good as to come back home sooner." — Meng Jiao

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Christos Tsiolkas' quote: "Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city." | Image: AmoDays

Christos Tsiolkas' quote: "Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city." | Image: AmoDays

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." — George Moore

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot in one's own country as a foreign land." — G.K. Chesterton

"Alles nahe werd fern—All that is near becomes far." — Goethe

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert

George Moore's quote: "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." | Image: AmoDays

George Moore's quote: "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." | Image: AmoDays

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"I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land." — Seneca

"Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves." — Henry David Thoreau

"The journey itself is my home." — Matsuo Basho

"He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left." — Chinese proverb

"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth." — John Lubbock

Seneca's quote: "I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land." | Image: AmoDays

Seneca's quote: "I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land." | Image: AmoDays

"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion." — Leigh Hunt

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." — Lin Yutang

"There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering." — Charles Dickens

Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote: "I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from." | Image: AmoDays

Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote: "I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from." | Image: AmoDays

Quotes on Homesickness Everyone May Have Experienced

"I get homesick driving to the grocery store." — Flying Lotus

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"I get homesick." — Larry Bird

"I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time." — Jennine Capó Crucet

"When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times." — Kendall Jenner

Flying Lotus' quote: "I get homesick driving to the grocery store." | Image: AmoDays

Flying Lotus' quote: "I get homesick driving to the grocery store." | Image: AmoDays

"I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A." — Michaela Conlin

"On my first night at boarding school, I felt entirely alone. I was shocked, frightened and intensely homesick, but I soon discovered that expressing these emotions, instead of bringing help and consolation, attracted a gloating, predatory fascination." — George Monbiot

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"I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick." — Joseph Conrad

"After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland." — Billy Boyd

"One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is to insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I traveled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick." — Louise Nurding

Michaela Conlin's quote: "I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A." | Image: AmoDays

Michaela Conlin's quote: "I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A." | Image: AmoDays

"I get homesick for snow and for winter and for seasons and, really, for weather patterns. But L.A. has some of the best weather, so who can complain when it's 80 degrees and sunny?" — Darby Stanchfield

"When my father passed away, I learned to be unattached to physical things. At a very young age, I was able to roam the world and be emotionally connected but physically disconnected. I'll get homesick in that I miss my mom. My grounding rock is her and my family." — Eiza Gonzalez

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"You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America." — Ken Jennings

"I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child." — Elizabeth Strout

"I came into Chicago in winter – I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things – and almost all of them were out of my reach." — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Darby Stanchfield's quote: "I get homesick for snow and for winter and for seasons and, really, for weather patterns. But L.A. has some of the best weather, so who can complain when it's 80 degrees and sunny?" | Image: AmoDays

Darby Stanchfield's quote: "I get homesick for snow and for winter and for seasons and, really, for weather patterns. But L.A. has some of the best weather, so who can complain when it's 80 degrees and sunny?" | Image: AmoDays

"I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work." — Jesse Eisenberg

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"I'm homesick everywhere I go, but England has a negative effect on my spirit to a profound degree." — Mark Kozelek

"Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone." — Paolo Nutini

"I get homesick – I could be in the sunniest place, but I need to see normality, and normal, for me, is London." — Stefflon Don

"We don't call it homesick. We call it missing home. There's not a sickness involved, it's a state of mind." — John Litten

Jesse Eisenberg's quote: "I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work." | Image: AmoDays

Jesse Eisenberg's quote: "I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work." | Image: AmoDays

"When I moved over to the States full time it was a culture shock. I had a great life over there, I really did, but I was always homesick. I always wanted to get home whenever I could." — Dario Franchitti

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"Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes – America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England." — Leslie Howard

Dario Franchitti's quote: "When I moved over to the States full time it was a culture shock. I had a great life over there, I really did, but I was always homesick. I always wanted to get home whenever I could." | Image: AmoDays

Dario Franchitti's quote: "When I moved over to the States full time it was a culture shock. I had a great life over there, I really did, but I was always homesick. I always wanted to get home whenever I could." | Image: AmoDays

Once you start feeling homesick, never be ashamed to talk about your feelings with someone you can trust. It would help if you also avoided isolation as it could worsen it, so go out and keep busy.

Also, exercise and try not to compare yourself to others. Most importantly, surround yourself with good people. If you need help doing just that, read these quotes.

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