5,709 Quotes About Moving

I wanted to love the city. There is an electricity to the dullest day here that overpowers its clinging aroma. Friends have moved cityward, rarely seen again, each acting as though they relocated to Shangri-La, despite muggings and struggling.

I've been to so many places and not a single one has saved me.

It is queer how quick new things do become Ordinary & then when you reflects on where you used to live it is that place which seems Exotic & Strange . . . /

I moved to Texas, and I liked it there; but I did not stay, because my heart was not there.

Settling in is something strange, the shift to nesting after all that’s involved with a move… the flurry of activity, that motion, lost to a conscious decision to finally just chill and try and enjoy it. There’s always more you could do, always something else—clean the baseboards, burn some sage—but after a time enough is enough.

... things would never be the same, but I can not let that occupy my mind. I just had to face life on life's terms, and not linger in the past or the future, but to stay in the present.

Life was moving so fast that I was having trouble landing with both feet in this moment. I’d finally “arrived” again...Why wasn’t I more excited?

We have more space and less time. And the love we had for our whole neighborhood now only fits into this wood-frame house in the middle of a quiet block. We don't know the people who live across the street or on either side of us.

I’ve come to understand that life is a constant letting go.