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

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.

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"'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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

Quotes on Homesickness Everyone May Have Experienced

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

"I get homesick." — Larry Bird

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

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.