Travel quotes are a great way to express our wanderlust, and to describe how we feel when we are exploring and discovering new places. Here are my pick of the 42 best travel quotes to describe our passion for travel and all the crazy excitement and uncertainty it brings with it.
1. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller”
Ibn Battua
2. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world”
Mary Anne Radmacher
3. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world”
Gustave Flaubnet
4. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”
Helen Keller
5. “Not all those who wander are lost”
J.R.R. Tolkien
6. “For the born traveller, travel is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victims time, money and energy and the sacrifice of comfort”
Aldous Huxley
7. “Because in the end you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain”
Jack Kerouc
8. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet that you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later”
Randy Komisar
9.“The life you have led doesn’t have to be the only life you have.”
Anna Quindlen
10. “20 years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
Mark Twain
11. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock”
Stephen Covey
12. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself”
David Mitchell
13. “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations”
Nyssa P. Chopra
14. “People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home”
Dagobert D. Runes
15. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire”
Jennifer Lee
16. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
17. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled”
Mohamed
18. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world”
Freya Stark
19. “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving”
Terry Pratchett
20. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse”
Thomas Fuller
21. “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it”
Charles Bukowski
22. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there”
Pascal Mercier
23. “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
24. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s ok. 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
25. “To live will be an awfully big adventure”
Peter Pan
26. “What you have to decide…is how you want your life to be. If forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. So don’t be afraid, be alive”
Sarah Dessen
27. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls”
Anais Nin
28. “Once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to”
Thornton Wilder
29. “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses”
Bill Bryson
30. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
31. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before”
Dalai Lama
33. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without travelling”
Roman Payne
34. “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time”
Andre Gide
35. “Now more than ever do I realise 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
36. “It is an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there – with your eyes open – and lived to see it”
Anthony Bourdain
37. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “Do not dare not to dare”
C.S. Lewis
39. “Paris is always a good idea”
Audrey Hepburn
40. “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever”
Joe Abercrombie
41. “Jet lag is for amateurs”
Dick Clark
42. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”
T.S. Eliot
Love some of these! 41 is my favourite haha!