Nothing saps the joy from travelling quite like homesickness.

Sometimes this insidious beast begins slowly, lurking beneath the surface for a while before finally rearing its ugly head.

On other occasions, it rushes forth from nowhere, like a surprise slap in the face.

Either way, one thing’s for certain: homesickness sucks.

Missing home badly takes the wind out from under your sails, and travelling starts to feel trivial. It’s incredible, really- you can be in paradise and feel nothing but longing for the very home you couldn’t wait to leave!

Thankfully, homesickness is rarely chronic- it’ll pass with time, only to re-emerge at a later date.

In the downtimes, though, it’s important to find any source of comfort possible. And, in that endeavour, I’ve always been surprised at how much a simple quote can make a difference.

With that in mind, I’ve put together 25 missing home quotes for anybody struggling with homesickness on the road.

Keep reading for some comforting ‘I miss home quotes’ that I hope will help you feel better.

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25 Comforting Missing Home Quotes to Help with Homesickness

Homesickness is never fun.

In fact, it’s one of the main disadvantages of travel out there. Fingers crossed the following quotes will prove a useful resource for anybody missing home.

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I Miss Home Quotes that Explain the Pain

Homesickness is a common part of travel that makes total sense, given what you’re doing! These quotes about missing home help explain why it’s so painful…

1.

“There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireplace.”

Cicero was a lawyer, philosopher and statesman way back in the Roman Empire.

The fact that he was talking about the beauty and value of home thousands of years ago shows that missing home is nothing unusual!

Everyone since the dawn of time has shared in this current experience. Loving and missing home is part of the human experience. Be kind to yourself.

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“Home is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return.”

It’s easy to feel a bit homeless when you’re travelling. I mean, you’re literally on the other side of the world, thousands of miles from friends and family.

It would be more surprising if you didn’t miss home badly every now and again! Hopefully, though, there’s some comfort in the fact that it’ll still be there when you get back.

Even if the house itself is different, the people you love most will be ready and waiting with open arms for your return.

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“There’s no shame in feeling homesick. It means you come from a happy home.”

Nobody wants to feel down in the dumps when they travel.

You want to make the most of the experience, and remain energised and excited while you’re away.

As such, it’s easy to beat yourself up when you feel homesick, unmotivated, and less able to enjoy your time. Remember, though, that it’s totally natural!

Remind yourself that it’s a good sign that you have a loving home to go back to in future.

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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 terrible keen blade…It can change the way one looks at the world.”

This might be something you know all too well right now.

It’s easy to romanticise homesickness, when, in reality, it’s just downright painful. Treat this situation accordingly; like any other pain, you need time for your mind and body to heal.

Take it easy for a while and allow yourself to recover.

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“The ache for home lives in all of us. The place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

Again, this missing home quote speaks to the human experience of homesickness.

There’s something about home, and the people we love who reside there, that accepts us for who we are.

The personal liberation of travel can lead to all sorts of questions about identity: Who am I? What do I want from life? Am I enough?

At home, where you’re accepted without question, these issues are far less troubling.

Missing Home Badly Quotes to Rediscover the Enjoyment of Travel

Don’t let homesickness ruin your trip! I hope these following quotes about missing home badly will help you remember just how awesome the experience of travelling is!

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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

Nomadic life doesn’t exactly lend itself to feeling settled and ‘at home’.

It’s definitely possible though. Sometimes you stumble on a place that makes you feel instantly comfortable. Until you find somewhere like that, do what you can to find a semblance of home.

Call your mum, Facetime a friend, eat your favourite food…

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“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.”

I love this quote from Terry Pratchett.

Remember the value in what you’re doing!

Oftentimes, we miss the idea of home more than the actual home itself.

Equally, a key part of travelling itself is the homeward journey.

Remember that fact as you sit there missing it. You will get there soon enough. And, when you do, you’ll have changed to the point where home feels like a different place.

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“Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”

Absence makes the heart grow fonder! You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…

These clichés both speak to what Dickens it getting at. Missing home on your travels is an incredible way to make you grateful for what you’ve left behind.

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“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.”

In this missing home quote, Jodi Picoult’s getting at exactly the same thing.

There’s no better way for appreciating your friends, family, and creature comforts than being thousands of miles away from them.

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“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”

I’m always struck by the irony involved with homesickness.

I mean, I spend weeks and months before a trip desperately wishing to leave home and start travelling. Then, I get overseas and (sometimes) find myself desperate to get back to it.

Nicely, periods of abstinence from anything make you appreciate it more.

Go a month without eating chocolate. The first bite you have after 30 days without it will blow your mind! You realize how much you take it for granted when you have it all the time.

The same goes for travelling and being away from home. A silver lining is that you understand how lucky you are.

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I Miss My Home Quotes that Explain Homesickness

I miss my home quotes don’t get much better than these…

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“Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.”

It’s hard to separate home from love.

Indeed, I think the notion of home is, sometimes, less about a physical space and more about the love within its walls.

And, as always, love and hurt usually go hand in hand.

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“If you know you’re going home, the journey is never too hard.”

This quote about missing home might serve as another reminder that home isn’t all that far away!

All adventures have an end date. Find solace in the fact that you will, soon enough, be reunited with home. Use that realisation to restore your love of the present moment.

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“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

You may be closer to home in a literal sense too.

You’ll always carry the love of friends and family with you. As such, in some senses, you take your home with you wherever you go.

Reflecting on that idea might, I hope, be a useful way to feel more connected with the home you’re missing.

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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.”

This is a missing home quote that resonates with me personally.

I often find myself longing for ‘a home’, and all the trappings I associate with it, rather than my actual home.

Pay attention to what you’re really missing. Perhaps the answer to your homesickness doesn’t lie in getting back home, but in something less tangible- like connection, acceptance, and/or love.

Realizing what you need right now might help you access it on your travels.

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“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.”

The desire to travel competes with our wish to be at a stable home with friends and family.

It’s totally natural that the choice you make, and the internal conflict that arises, causes discomfort and suffering. After all, either way, you win and you lose.

Homesickness can be a bitter pill to swallow. However, recall what made you decide to travel in the first place. Write down the motivations, and meditate on the fact you made that dream a reality.

You might find your homesickness recede, and rediscover your passion for being on the road.

Missing My Family Back Home Quotes to Help Find Connection

Finding connection to others when you’re on the road can help alleviate even the most debilitating homesickness…

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“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.”

Again, think about what you’re actually missing and/or longing for.

You might be able to find it on the road.

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“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.”

Humans were nomads long before we lived sedentary lives. We were wild and wayfaring long before we were civilised. We were active and adventurous long before we were idle and domesticated.

I think everybody should travel- especially when they’re younger and less fixed in their thinking.

Celebrate what you’re doing, and know that there’s plenty of time to be at home when you’re old, grey, and unable to travel anymore.

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“‘When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.’”

You’re never as far from home as you feel.

The moon and the constellations are (depending on where you are in the world) exactly what people are seeing at home- just viewed from a different angle.

If that isn’t enough, remember that you’re only a phone call away from the comforting words and wisdom of your nearest and dearest.

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“Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst.”

Again, what do you need to feel better right now?

Maybe, just maybe, it’s about feeling a sense of connection and belonging. There’s something inherently isolating about travel; loneliness is rampant.

You might be one hug from a stranger away from your homesickness melting away.

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“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”

I once met a Brazilian girl in Cambodia, who’d been travelling for 6 whole years on the hunt for somewhere that felt like home.

In my experience, though, given the right circumstances, you can feel just as at home on the road itself. As Hesse puts it, look for those ‘friendly paths’ on your travels.

Stumble upon them and a deep sense of contentment won’t be far behind.

I Wanna Go Home Quotes to Turn the Situation Around

When you want to go home because it hurts so bad, read these quotes to pick your chin up and turn the situation around.

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“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.”

The people you meet on the road can make all the different to your experience.

They become your new family, and very quickly work their way onto your list of closest friends.

Find friendly, loving fellow travellers (and locals) with whom you get along and enjoy spending time. It’s hard to feel homesick when you’re surrounded by this kind of support.

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“Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”

Keep this Tolkien quote in mind if you’re feeling truly down and a little lost.

Take your time, keep your head above water, and you never know what beauty awaits. Remember that the night is darkest just before the dawn.

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“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

I love this Winnie the Pooh quote as well.

It’s such a simple way of reframing your homesickness. Being able to find gratitude in your struggles is an immense gift- it empowers you to make the change.

Try to flip your homesickness on its head by realising what it means: that you’re fortunate to have a loving home to go back to.

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“Home is where our story begins.”

Home is a springboard to almost every event, activity and story we experience in life.

It made you the person you are, and led you to travel in the first place. Bring to mind what it was about home that made you want to hit the road.

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“Wake up and ponder the future.”

Finally, with the grip of homesickness beginning to ease, turn your attention to the opportunities at your disposal. You’re in a brand new country, with adventures to be had and memories to be made.

Rather than looking back at what you’ve left behind, turn to the future and embrace its possibilities.

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I Miss Home Quotes to Read and Love!

There’s nothing fun about getting homesick when you’re on the road.

Enjoying the experience just becomes far harder when you’re missing home badly. You lose your motivation for travelling, and dwell on the things you’ve left behind.

Thankfully, time heals all and things get better. In the meantime, bringing to mind some top ‘I miss home quotes’ can make a difference.

Hopefully, these missing home quotes will help you through the tough times, and allow you to re-enter the travel experience with newfound enthusiasm!

Now I’d love to hear from you.

Which of these quotes made the most difference to your levels of homesickness? Drop me a comment to let me know.

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