Whether your destination is a long plane ride to a far-flung tropical island, an all-inclusive resort, or a car ride to a closer-to-home national monument, there’s something thrilling about traveling. You pack up your suitcase, put a hold on your mail delivery, and make a checklist of all that you want to do or see once you get there. (And yes, doing nothing more than reading a book by the pool with a fruity drink in your hand totally ranks on the to-do list!) To get you in the mood for your next vacation, we have put together some of the best quotes about traveling. These travel thoughts and phrases are sure to feed the wanderlust inside of you, hype you up as you mark off one adventure from your bucket list, or inspire you as you prepare for an epic solo experience. Just remember that traveling post-pandemic is a bit different than how we would take a trip just two or three years ago. If you are headed to a foreign city, be sure to check the coronavirus regulations for that particular country, because the last thing you want is to have all of your planning be for nothing. So read these travel quotes, gather up some snacks for the road, get ready to play some games during the car ride, and head on out to your next destination!
100 Travel Quotes
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide
- “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” — Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
- “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
- “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Augustine
- “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.” ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
- “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” — Unknown
- “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Erica Jong
- “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” — Unknown
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust
- “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” — Lin Yutang
- “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice
- “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
- “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” — Anatole France
- “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” — Unknown
- “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ― Anaïs Ni
- “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” — Pico Iyer
- “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” — Freya Stark
- “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin
- “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad
- “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” — Oscar Wilde
- “The journey is my home.” — Muriel Rukeyser
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― K. Chesterton
- “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” — Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters
- “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton
- “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” — Judith Thurman
- “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by.” — Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
- “I read; I travel; I become.” ― Derek Walcott
- “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” — Seneca
- “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharial Nehru
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley
- “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” — Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
- “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” — The Prophet Mohammed
- “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” — Katie Thurmes
- “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho, Aleph
- “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle
- “I think you travel to search, and you come back home to find yourself there.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert
- “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!” — Unknown
- “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
- “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer, “Age of Worry”
- “To travel is to live.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
- “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” — Dalai Lama
- “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
- “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ― Jawaharial Nehru
- “He who would travel happily must travel light.” — Antoine de St. Exupery
- “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” — Suzy Strutner
- “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” — Anthony Bourdain
- “When the traveler goes alone, he gets acquainted by himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” — Unknown
- “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc
- “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” — Michael Palin
- “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” — Storm Jameson
- “People don’t take trips—trips take people.” — John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie
- “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- “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.” — Terry Pratchett
- “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
- “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “If you never go, you will never know!” — Unknown
- “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta
- “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone
- “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” — Wallace Stevens
- “It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” — William Hazlitt
- “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” — Asian Proverb
- “It is not down on any map; true places never are” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
- “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” — Unknown
- “Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.” — Gayland Anderson
- “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” — Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
- “Tourists visit. Travelers explore.” — Unknown
- “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
- “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi
- “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia de Castro
- “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” — Samuel Johnson
- “Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” — David McCullough Jr.
- “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” — Alexander Sattler
- “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” — Sheda Savage
- “If we travel simply to indulge ourselves, we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer.” — Unknown
- “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
- “‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of.” — Louis C.K.
- “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” — Pat Conroy
- “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry”― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
- “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux
- “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” — Shane Koyczan
- “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
- “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” — Charles Bukowski
- “The best traveler is one without a camera.”― Kamand Kojouri
- “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” — Agnes Repplier Next, check out these 150 awesome Instagram captions for your travel photos!
