Looking for the perfect words to express what home means to you? Whether you’re feeling nostalgic, grateful, or just vibing with the cozy feels, these handpicked home quotes have you covered. From sweet and simple lines to inspiring thoughts, this collection is your go-to for captions, decor inspo, or a heartwarming reminder that home truly is where the heart is.
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.
Robin Hobb - Fool's Fate
Home is where the heart breathes lighter and dreams find their roots.
Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place
Stephanie Perkins - Anna, and the French Kiss
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
This haven is spun from every hope the heart ever dared to weave.
In the stillness of home, truth glows like the break of day.
Silver light wanders these rooms, mending every tired spirit.
Here, life unfolds at its own gentle pace, never rushed, never forced.
At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.
Warsan Shire
Home's where you go when you run out of homes.
John le Carré -The Honourable Schoolboy
Within these walls, every flower of the soul blooms without fear.
A true home hums with the softest, sweetest melodies of life.
Everything that carries love settles gently here.
These rooms understand every sigh, every silent hope.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room
Built by old souls and carried by tender hearts.
The truest light shines through the cracks, blessing everything it touches.
Home is where life unfolds slowly, with grace and no need to hurry.
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
Pascal Mercier - Night Train to Lisbon
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss
I live in my own little world. But it's ok, they know me here.
Lauren Myracle
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder
Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Every wall hums with warmth and quiet triumph.
I borrow sunlight from the glass and calm from the earth.
Fewer treasures, fuller hearts, longer laughter.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
William Faulkner
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room
Home is where my habits have a habitat.
Fiona Apple
Between these walls, I simply breathe, belong, and become. 🌿
Home holds space for every season of the soul.
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits.
Robert Southey
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
William C. Faulkner
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Robert Montgomery
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
Alfred Hitchcock
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen - Emma
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
Rumi
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
Joyce Maynard
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.
N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season
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 - All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Augustus Moore - The Brook Kerith
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.
Nina, he said, pressing her hand to his heart. I am already home.Leigh Bardugo - Crooked Kingdom
Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
Pierce Brown - Golden Son
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
The windows welcome dreams with open arms.
Here, time lingers kindly, cradling every precious moment.
Some words live in the walls, speaking in the language of love.
