66 Missing Family Quotes When Distance Feels Too Hard
Missing family hits different.
It’s not just missing people. It’s missing the feeling of home. The comfort of being around the ones who know you best.
Distance doesn’t make it easier. Whether it’s miles or time zones or circumstances you can’t control. You just want them close again.
Some days it’s manageable. Other days it aches in a way that’s hard to explain.
These missing family quotes understand that feeling. They’re for when you need to put the longing into words.
Short Missing Family Quotes
“Missing someone is part of loving them. Not until you are apart do you realize how much they mean to you.” — Nikhil Saluja
“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.” — Hans Nouwens
“I grew up knowing that the celebration times in life were meant to be with your family…” — Jodi Picoult
“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 any more.” — Robin Hobb
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.” — Ally Condie
“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
“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” — Wendy Wunder
“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…” — Terry Pratchett
“Think I’ll miss you forever. Like the stars miss the sun in the mornin’ sky.” — Lana Del Rey
“There’s solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.” — Jim Crace
“I keep myself busy with the things I do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.” — Cecelia Ahern
“I wonder how much of the day I spend just calling after you.” — Harper Lee
“I wake to you everywhere. Yet you are not here.” — Nayyirah Waheed
“Remembering our loved ones is breathing life into their fading images…” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” — Caroline George
“When I was young I didn’t understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present…” — Audrey Niffenegger
“What was it like to lose him?… It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me—said all at once.” — Lang Leav
“There’s no vocabulary for love within a family… This love is silent.” — T.S. Eliot
“I missed my mother’s father. Is that even possible?…” — Ann Patchett
“There’s no shame in feeling homesick. It means you come from a happy home.” — Mrs. Hughes (Downton Abbey)
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.” — Pierce Brown
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” — George A. Moore
“The love of family is life’s greatest blessing, and being away from them is life’s greatest heartache.” — Deniz Yalım
“Distance may keep us apart, but my heart is always with my family.” — Deniz Yalım
“No matter how far apart we are, family will always be connected by heartstrings.” — Deniz Yalım
“Home isn’t a place, it’s the people you love, and today I miss mine.” — Deniz Yalım
“The worst part of distance is not the miles, but the memories that keep replaying in your mind.” — Deniz Yalım
“Sometimes you miss the memories, but most of the time you miss the people.” — Deniz Yalım
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” — George Burns
“Tuesday will be a tough night for me. It’s like to return to the family who have not seen you for a long time.” — Cristiano Ronaldo
“Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.” — Susannah York
“Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.” — Laura Rami
Short Family Quotes
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy
“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” — George Santayana
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” — Jane Howard
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” — David Ogden Stiers
“The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.” — Marge Kennedy
“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.” — Lee Iacocca
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.” — Alex Haley
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” — Confucius
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” — Albert Einstein
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.” — Pope John XXIII
“The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” — Charles Kuralt
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” — Desmond Tutu
“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.” — Donna Hedges
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” — Richard Bach
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.” — Barbara Bush
“The family is the nucleus of civilization.” — Will Durant
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.” — Buddha
“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.” — Kendall Hailey
“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” — Brad Henry
“The family is the school of compassion.” — Dalai Lama
“The family is the most important unit in society. It is where we learn to love, to share, and to forgive.” — Stephen Covey
“A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The family is the haven in a heartless world.” — Christopher Lasch
“The family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models.” — Alice Sterling Honig
“I sustain myself with the love of family.” — Maya Angelou
“Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.” — Mitch Albom
“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.” — Christopher Paolini
“We must take care of our families wherever we find them.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“This is part of what a family is about… Nothing else will give you that.” — Mitch Albom
“Go then if you must, but remember… those who love you will love you still.” — Sophocles
“Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.” — Cassandra Clare
