For so many of us, home is indeed where the heart is, and it's the well-loved space where we spend the most time. Which is why we rounded up some quotes about home to show your abode the appreciation it deserves.
When the outside world feels especially overwhelming, coming home is such a sweet relief. It's an intimate space where we can relax and be our truest selves, surrounded by peace and comfort.
Of course, home wouldn't be nearly as meaningful without the people (and pets) that fill it with love and laughter. Without them, a house is just an empty edifice.
That's the beautiful thing about home: it's so much more than a place. Whether you live in a tiny apartment or a spacious house, fill your home with photos, treasures, and happy memories. No matter where you travel or how long you're away, the mere thought of home will always bring you strength and solace.
Whether you're far from home or currently curled up in your favorite armchair, these cozy quotes about home are the dopamine dose you've been searching for.
Short quotes about home
- “In love of home, the love of country has its rise.” — Charles Dickens
- “How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home.” — William Faulkner
- “Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms.” — William J. Bennett
- “No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.” — Laura Marney
- “Peace, like charity, begins at home.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.” — Helen Rowland
- “The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere.” — Albanian Proverb
- “Home is the nicest word there is.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.” — Isaac Watts
- “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” — Matsuo Bashō
- “Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.” — Charles Henry Parkhurst
- “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” — N.K. Jemisin
- “Home is where one starts from.” — T.S. Eliot
- “If home is where the heart is, then may your home be blessed.” — John McLeod
- “Seek home for rest, for home is best.” — Thomas Tusser
- “Peace — that was the other name for home.” — Kathleen Norris
- “The ache for home lives in all of us.” — Maya Angelou
- “Let your home be your mast and not your anchor.” — Kahlil Gibran
- “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do … but how much love we put in that action.” — Mother Teresa
- “The home should be the treasure chest of living.” — Le Corbusier
- “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” — Jane Austen
- “Where thou art — that — is home.” — Emily Dickinson
- “If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.” — Malala Yousafzai
- “The home is the chief school of human virtues.” — William Ellery Channing
Funny quotes about home
- “A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” — Mark Twain
- “When we root-root-root for the home team, we’re rooting for our home as much as the team.” — Richard Roeper
- “I have a real genius for staying at home.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “Home wasn’t built in a day.” — Jane Sherwood Ace
- “Home is where my habits have a habitat.” — Fiona Apple
- “To be an ideal guest, stay at home.” — E. W. Howe
- “Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.” — Aleksandar Hemon
- “Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation — coming home again.” — Madeleine L’Engle
- “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” — Robert Frost
Quotes about home and family
- “The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home.” — Dorothy L. Sayers
- “They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.” — Emily Dickinson
- “It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.” — G. K. Chesterton
- “‘I’ve had a splendid time,’ she concluded happily, ‘and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.’” — Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children.” — Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
- “Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support.” — Wes Fesler
- “Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” ― Pierce Brown
- “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” — George Moore
- “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
- “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.” — Lydia M. Child
- “Homeward bound / I wish I was / Homeward bound / Home where my thought’s escapin’ / Home where my music’s playin’ / Home where my love lies waitin’ / Silently for me” — Paul Simon, “Homeward Bound”
- “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” — John Howard Payne
- “You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.” — Henning Mankell
- “Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” — Robert Montgomery
- “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” — Maya Angelou
- “One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” — Hermann Hesse
- “Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.” — Henry Drummond
- “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” — Maya Angelou
- “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home.” — Rachael Ray
- “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” — Rumi
- “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” — Louisa May Alcott
