Profoundly inspirational homesick quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Homesick Quotes
Wake up and ponder the future. Hunter S. Thompson
I get homesick. Larry Bird
Peace like charity; begins at home. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I get homesick driving to the grocery store. Flying Lotus
If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home. Malala Yousafzai
I am so homesick every day of the week. Tanya Saracho
I always wanted to travel, but now that I am, all I want is to go home. Rehan Khan
When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times. Kendall Jenner
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. E. W. Howe
I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A. Michaela Conlin
Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life. Becky Chambers
I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick. Joseph Conrad
Christmas is a time when you get homesick even when you’re home. Carol Nelson
After I’ve been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland. Billy Boyd
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
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Anne Tyler
I’m homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends. Brittany Howard
Christmas is a time when you get homesick even when you’re home. Carol Nelson
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever
Do not make homes out of people. This will leave you homesick and sad. K. Michelle
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. E. W. Howe
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever
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
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. E. W. Howe
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing. Irina Shayk
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
Home is not where you live but where they understand you. Christian Morgenstern
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
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. Maya Angelou
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
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie
I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we traveled all over Europe. It was an eye opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don’t get homesick. Magnus Carlsen
Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. J.R.R. Tolkien
My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they’re desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind. Brin Jonathan Butler
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Robert Montgomery
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold. John Gould
If you know you’re going home, the journey is never too hard. Angela Wood
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
Home is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return. Leo Christopher
In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime. Hiro Murai
How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Winnie the Pooh
I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home. Cilla Black
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Our house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy. Robyn Griggs Lawrence
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of The Andy Griffith Show and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns. Tom Shales
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 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 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
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. Loren Eiseley
There’s no shame in feeling homesick. It means you come from a happy home. Mrs. Hughes
I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn’t think of being on American Idol. I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have. Lauren Alaina
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
It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar’s My Country as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever increasing body of refereed scientific thought hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really. Judy Horacek
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. Charles Dickens
In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation. J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
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
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
I get very homesick, but otherwise it’s a great privilege to get to travel for work. Jesse Eisenberg
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. John Ed Pearce
Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone. Paolo Nutini
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
I’m homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends. Brittany Howard
When you feel homesick, he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go. Donna Tartt
South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase I was homesick even when I was home. Sydney Pollack
The ache for home lives in all of us. The place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou
I’m homesick everywhere I go, but England has a negative effect on my spirit to a profound degree. Mark Kozelek
Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst. Yara Bashraheel
I get homesick I could be in the sunniest place, but I need to see normality, and normal, for me, is London. Stefflon Don
The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back. Wendy Wunder
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
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Hermann Hesse
I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I’ve never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country. Andy Serkis
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
We get home to Brisbane every couple of months or weeks. But we have often flown home for just two days as we get so homesick. Jessica Origliasso
