Relationships Etc.
130 Best Travel Quotes of All Time (Inspirational + Beautiful!)
Where to Use These Traveling Quotes
Top Wanderlust Quotes
“So I find words I never thought to speak.
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my soul on a afar shore.” ― T.S. Eliot
“A dominant impulse on encountering eyeful is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and requite it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.” ― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
“What is that feeling when you’re driving yonder from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture underneath the skies.” ― On the Road
“Now increasingly than overly do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will unchangingly be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” ―
“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of megacosm is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“We must go vastitude textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” ― John Hope Franklin”
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ― Anatole France
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to unshut our hearts and vision and learn increasingly well-nigh the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to wilt young fools again- to slow time lanugo and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” ― Pico Iyer
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just alimony on rolling under the stars.”― Jack Kerouac
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold versus you. No yesterdays on the road.” ―
Short Travel Quotes
Need a quick quotation well-nigh travel? A short and sweet wanderlust photo caption? Check out this list to find your new favorite inspirational quote for travel.
“Travel brings power and love when into your life.” ―
“Every hundred feet the world changes” ―
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” ―
“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.” ―
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, solemnize and don’t be sorry” ―
“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.” ―
“I wonder if the ocean smells variegated on the other side of the world.” ―
“Life is trappy if you are on the road to somewhere.” ―
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must siphon it with us or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Once you uncork traveling, it might so happen that you discover a place where people are just like you.” ―
“There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place plane without we’ve left it.” ― Colum McCann
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the gravity of nature’s course.” ―
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to fathom it the increasingly from his wandering.” ―
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ―
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ―
“There is a kind of magicness well-nigh going far yonder and then coming when all changed.” ―
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ―
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ―
Famous Travel Quotes You’ve Probably Heard Before
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To proceeds all while you give; To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” -John A. Shedd
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, recreate and adventure. There is no end to the vita we can have if only we seek them with our vision open.” ―
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong well-nigh other countries.” -Aldous Huxley
“The journey not the inrush matters.” ―
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” -J.K. Rowling
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.” ―
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ” ―
“Traveling – It makes you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The unconfined topic is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson
“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”
―
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama
“Our unimproved suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life” ―
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be uninventive by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ―
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ―
“A good traveler has no stock-still plans and is not intent on arriving.” ―
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” –Unknown
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” ―
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literary Quotes well-nigh Traveling
“I saw in their vision something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a urgent desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, yonder from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, self-ruling and unanchored, not toward something but yonder from something. I saw this squint and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.” ―
“So in America when the sun goes lanugo and I sit on the old unfirm river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge rugosity over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just surpassing the coming of well-constructed night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to everyone besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I plane think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.” ―
“Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.” ― The Beach
“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. Lost keys, unwritten labels, tissue paper lying on the floor. I hate it all. Plane now, when I have washed-up so much of it, when I live, as the saying goes, in my boxes. Plane to-day, when shutting drawers and flinging wide a hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, is a methodical matter of routine, I am enlightened of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however unenduring the time. Though two nights only have been spent underneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty snifter of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief underneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood. This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, reverted in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.” — Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the carrion a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be stipule that was broken,
The crownless then shall be king.”
―
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” ―
“The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don’t have to stay in a pattern. You can unchangingly start over, saddle a fresh horse and take flipside trail.”
― The Proving Trail
“Drifting wideness the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, once on desert time.” ―
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” ― On the Road
“The Road goes overly on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far superiority the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
―
“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.” ― Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Quotes well-nigh Travel and Adventure
“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your marvel or ease your fears, to transpiration the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to wits an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..” ―
“Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and venture transpiration and elongate time, plane while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” ―
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are whence to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” ―
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are hostage to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us considering unfathomable. We can never have unbearable of nature.” ―
“Adventure is permitting the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – whilom all, a travel agency – unify everything before-hand?” ―
“Adventure rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our worthiness to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.” ―
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t alimony your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ―
“What is it well-nigh maps? I could squint at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit…” ―
“Travelers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and venture transpiration and elongate time, plane while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.”― Paul Sheehan
“I want to stay as tropical to the whet as I can without going over. Out on the whet you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“Although I tightly love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They alimony me continuously wanting to know more, finger more, see more.” ―
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an warmed-over mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” ―
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” ―
“If I’m an well-wisher for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Wideness the ocean, or simply wideness the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Unshut your mind, get up off the couch, move.” ―
“While she was in transit, stuff unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.” ―
Dreamy Inspirational Travel Quotes
“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, self-rule to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, self-rule to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.” ―
“When no possessions alimony us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.” ―
“We only know a tiny proportion well-nigh the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know well-nigh and don’t understand. […] There are unchangingly new things to find out if you go looking for them.” ―
“It is unchangingly sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancholies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things well-nigh traveling.” ―
“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love topic you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to hoke a private narrative, an explanation, a well-appointed way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there- with your vision open- and lived to see it.” ―
“Horizons, unseemly whisky straight from the bottleand your hands in mine.” ―
“When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is increasingly important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.” ―
“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps increasingly homesick than for familiar ground.” ―
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is vastitude my imagination.” -Jhumpa Lahiri
“The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: throw-away time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside lanugo the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.” ―
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar repletion of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new vision and uneaten colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming when to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
―
“Every one of a hundred thousand cities virtually the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.” ―
“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the subconscious paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
―
“I write you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” ―
“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent increasingly on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” ―
“Air travel reminds us who we are. It’s the ways by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us untied from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one increasingly time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the gravity that is unsaid in all this, the unknown validity overdue it, overdue the categories, the languages we don’t understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls.” ―
“But why think well-nigh that when all the golden lands superiority of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you’re working to see?” ― On the Road
More Superstitious Trip Quotes
“Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,
And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.” ―
“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, plane saying hello—become new all over again.” ―
“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent perfectly as is often the way with travelers unescapable the end of a journey.” ―
“The exploration of self is only enhanced by your expeditions & innumerable odysseys that nurture the mind and soul, if finding a purpose is your goal then travelling lies at the heart of it.” ―
“This was how it was with travel: one municipality gives you gifts, flipside robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, flipside is bad.” ―
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ―
A man of ordinary talent will unchangingly 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
“I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.” ―
“Travel is the only context in which some people overly squint around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.” ―
“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city…you go lanugo new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t plane know were there. Everything changes.” ―
“The value of your travels does not swivel on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced wits of a single country is unchangingly largest than the hurried, superficial wits of forty countries.”
―
“The world is as large as I let it be. Each step I take into the unknown reveals a thousand increasingly steps of possibility. Earth may not be growing but my world certainly does with each step I take.” ―
“To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his valise is to at last contact the core, the inner lamina of his personality.” ―
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ―
“Roam upalong in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments surpassing the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.” ―
“It’s in those quiet little towns, at the whet of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you finger right at home.” ―
“We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the variegated countries, so that we can “show off” and perplex people when we get home. We wish to excite the green-eyed of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off.” ―
Thoughtful Phrases Well-nigh Travel Self Discovery
“No man is unflinching that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the unconfined leveler, the unconfined teacher, stormy as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you increasingly well-nigh yourself than a hundred years of quiet.” ―
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it wilt worldwide ground and a worldwide yoke and we closure to be alone.” ―
“I alimony going back
as if Im looking for something I have lost
back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland
back to the beacon, the breast
the smell and taste of the breeze,
and the singing of the rain.”
―
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over then in the quietest chambers. The mind can never unravel off from the journey.” ―
“No waffly of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was unchangingly increasingly in the world than man could see, walked they overly so slowly; they will see it no largest for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.” ―
“Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was worldly-wise to squint at his life with a little increasingly objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.” ―
“Through travel I first became enlightened of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into rhadamanthine a part of it.” ―
“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to icon out how minion your starting point was.”―
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are increasingly conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.” ―
“Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there abreast me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I stupefy to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.” ―
“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” ―
“Every journey conceals flipside journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.” ―
“There are far, far largest things superiority than any we leave behind.” ―
“We leave something of ourselves overdue when we leave a place, we stay there, plane though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find then only by going when there.” ― Night Train to Lisbon
“Paradise was unchangingly over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can alimony moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.” ―
“A journey, without all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much older and is really never over, considering the mucosa of memory continues running on inside of us long without we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a spoliation of travel, and the disease is substantially incurable.” ―
“No one realizes how trappy it is to travel until he comes home and rests his throne on his old, familiar pillow. ” ―
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
―
“Travel does not exist without home…If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us without stuff infused with the outside world.” ―
Which of these is among the weightier travel quotes? Do you have flipside favorite?
