Quotes: Naguib Mahfouz

"Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease." 

–– Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), Egyptian writer and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Quotes: Giorgio Armani

"A home should always feel like a portrait of the person who lives there." 

–– Giorgio Armani (b. 1943), Italian fashion designer 

via: Sketchbook 29, 2016, p. 30. 

Quotes: Edith Sitwell

"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 (1887-1964), British poet and critic 

via: Sketchbook 25, 2015, p. 52. 

Quotes: George Moore

"A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." 

–– George Moore (1873-1958), English philosopher 

via: Sketchbook 24, 2014, p. 137.

Quotes: Charles Dickens

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration." 

–– Charles Dickens (1812-1870), British writer and social critic

via: Sketchbook 23, 2014, p. 18. 

Quotes: William Hazlitt

"I would like to spend my whole life travelling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home." 

–– William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British writer, literary critic and philosopher 

via: Sketchbook 22, 2013, p. 50. 

Quotes: Bashō

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." 

–– Bashō (1644-1694), Japanese poet 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 65.

Quotes: Samuel Johnson

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." 

–– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author 

via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 121

Quotes: Jane Austen

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort." 

–– Jane Austen (1775-1817), British novelist 

via: Sketchbook 18, 2012, p. 38.

Quotes: Maya Angelou

"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 (1928-2014), American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist 

via: Sketchbook 17, 2012, p. 100