Alain de Botton Quotes

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

My heart is definitely here, and there's no place like home.

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.

Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

A house is not a home.

Your heart is your home, and all roads lead to home.

It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

It is important for me to feel at home.

My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

Home is where you hang your head.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.