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74 Inspiring Solo Travel Quotes 2024

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A quick search of the internet and you’ll find thousands of travel quotes. They exist to inspire you to delve into the unknown and learn about the world .

However, solo travel quotes have an extra special ingredient – not only do they ignite wanderlust and passion for the great unknown , but they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to solo travellers who are facing the world alone.

Why Travel Solo?

In recent years, solo travel has been on the rise, and more and more people are discovering just how empowering and exciting it can be to venture into the unknown alone.

It is one of the most life changing experiences you can undertake, and will ultimately mould you into a stronger, more capable individual.

There are plenty of challenges when travelling alone, but solo travel is the ultimate chance for you to learn about yourself and see the world from a whole new perspective.

You’ll grow as a person exponentially, and be better equipped to deal with what life throws at you.

Since 2012, I have travelled alone through Europe , Asia , Central and South America , and the freedom it brings is incomparable to traveling with others.

My solo trips have been filled with highs and lows, but they are the kinds of experiences I wouldn’t change for the world, as they have made me who I am today.

Whether in a foreign city or strange town, a solo journey is your very own adventure.

So whether you’re single, in a relationship, introverted or extroverted, try travelling alone at least once in your life.

74 of the Best Travel Solo Quotes

Whether you’re currently on the road solo or at home planning to travel alone for the first time, you’ll find that quotes about traveling alone will help to inspire you and push you ahead.

So I’ve curated and categorised the best solo travel quotes (that also make the perfect travel captions for Instagram), in the hopes that they will motivate and nudge you into booking a solo trip abroad.

These quotes for solo travel have been hand picked from authors, poets, historians, actresses, scientists and even Buddha!

Best Solo Trip Quotes

1. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”  – Unknown

2. “Go solo, go far.”  – Unknown

3. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” —  John Mayer

4. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”  – Kein Poirot

5. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” —  Buddha

6. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” –  Maxwell Maltz

7. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

8. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” –  Mandy Hale

Self Discovery Quotes About Travelling Alone

Solo travel is all about relying on yourself and trusting your instincts.

You’ll learn more about yourself and find out just how capable you are.

The following quotes about traveling alone, are all about self discovery:

9. “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

10. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

Solo Ride Quotes

11. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” –  Grace Lichtenstein

12. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”  – Unknown

13. “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” –  Angela Vallely

14. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” –  Pablo Holmberg

15. “You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley

Riding Solo Quotes About How Much Travel Can Change You

We all know travel changes you, but travelling alone is even more transformative, and will shape you in ways you could never have imagined.

This is because solo travel is designed to push you out of your comfort zone, and make you realise the only limits you have are the ones you set yourself.

The below travel alone quotes are all about how solo travel can change you and test your boundaries:

16. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” – Caroline Myss

17. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

18. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” – Henry Ford

Quotes on Travelling Alone

19. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

20. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.”  – Suzy Strutner

21. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –  Gustav Flaubert

22. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” –  Isabelle Eberhardt

Quotes About Traveling Alone That Will Make You Embrace It

When you’re planning to visit a foreign country by yourself for the first time, it can be hard to find the inner courage to make your solo travel dreams a reality.

The following solo travelling quotes are designed to take away your fears and get you packing your backpack:

23. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” –  Diane Von Furstenberg

24. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”  – Jacqueline Boone

Travelling Alone Quotes

25. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

26. “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

27. “You will never be alone if you like the person you are with!”

28. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

29. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”

FOMO Solo Travel Quotes for Instagram

There are plenty of quotes about solo travel that are all about making sure you don’t miss out on travelling alone and the unique experiences it offers.

Read this collection of inspiring traveling solo quotes for the journeys you need to do alone NOW before it’s too late.

30. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –  Mark Twain

31. “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.”  – Unknown

Alone Travel Quotes

32. “If you never go, you’ll never know.”  – Unknown

33. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

34. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” –  Henry David Thoreau

35. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

Solo Female Travel Quotes

If the fear of the unknown has caused you to procrastinate or postpone your solo female adventure then I hope these inspirational quotes about traveling alone as a woman will give you a push in the right direction.

36. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

37. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

Solo Travel Instagram Captions

38. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” –  Diane Von Furstenberg

39. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” –  Mae West

40. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”  – Cheryl Strayed

41. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” –  Freya Stark

42. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

Quotes for Travelling Alone

43. “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.” –  Anthony Bourdain

44. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” –  Storm Jameson

45. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

46. “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” –  Pico Iyer

47. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

Quotes on Solo Travel

48. “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

49. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

50. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” – Margaret Shepard

51. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

52. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” –  Holly Morris

Solo Travelling Quotes

53. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

54. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” –  Henry Rollins

55. “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” –  Debasish Mridha

56. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” –  Helen Keller

57. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

58. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

59. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” –  Elizabeth Gilbert

60. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” –  Paul Theroux

Solo Trip Captions for Instagram

61. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

62. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

63. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

64. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

65. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”

66. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” – Alain de Botton

Solo Journey Quotes

• “The impulse of travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier
• “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten
• “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan
• “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

Solo Traveling Quotes

• “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
• “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
• “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” — Wendell Berry

The Best Travel Alone Quotes

That’s a wrap!

I hope these quotes on travelling alone have made you see solo travel in a new way, and perhaps motivated you to get past the hardest part, taking the leap!

Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip.

However you choose to use these solo ride quotes, I hope they inspire you to take on your next solo adventure trip.

Did I miss any good quotes for solo travelers?

If so, let me know in the comments below, and if you are looking for even more travel inspiration check out some of the other travel quotes I’ve collated.

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52 Solo Travel Quotes to Inspire Traveling Alone

By: Author Susan Moore

Posted on Last updated: September 2, 2022

Before I took my first trip alone I didn’t really think about traveling by myself. I thought I needed to travel with other people. But after my solo backpacking trip to Southeast Asia my world opened up to the rich experiences of traveling solo.

Solo travel is rewarding. We experience personal growth from trying new things and getting away from our usual habits. And there’s no better way to step outside of your comfort zone than a solo trip to someplace new.

In this post I’m sharing 52 of the best solo travel quotes to invigorate your wanderlust.

52 Solo Travel Quotes

In the following solo travel quotes I hope you find inspiration – and may you enjoy many adventures while traveling alone.

“You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” — Natalie Goldberg

“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

Solo travel adventure quote

“Solo travel builds confidence.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Go where you feel most alive.”

“I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock” – Erica Jong

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

Inspiring solo travel quote

“Don’t keep waiting for someone to travel with you because you may never travel anywhere!”

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –  Helen Keller

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

Solo travel quote – stop waiting for others to travel with you!

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius

“How will you know, if you never go and explore?”

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor

“I discovered that I prefer to collect experiences rather than things.” – Susan Moore

“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

Travel quote inspiring you try solo traveling

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

“Only one who wanders finds new paths.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” – Rumi

Quote about traveling solo and getting to know yourself

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly” – Colin Wright

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

Traveling alone is about personal growth

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.” – Diana Nyad

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” – Becca Lee

”A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

“The past is in your head. The future is in your hands.”

“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

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Solo travel pushes you out of your comfort zone AND others’ expectations

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

“There’s no right way or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should give solo travel a try at least once in their life.” – Susan Moore

“A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Francis Burton

“You are never too old to start traveling solo.” – Susan Moore

“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

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75 Motivational Solo Travel Quotes (With Photos) – Best Travel Alone Quotes!

By: Author Sophie Pearce

Posted on Last updated: January 7, 2022

Categories TRAVEL QUOTES

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I think there’s something so inspiring about reading travel quotes to spark some wanderlust into our lives.

I know, more than most, how terrifying it can be to travel solo if you’ve never done it before.

But, once I took that leap, I’ve never looked back. I’ve been happily travelling around the world by myself ever since! 

Now, six years later, I run my own business as a solo female travel blogger.

Looking back, I remember flicking through about a million solo travel quotes to remind me why I wanted to go and how I had the power in myself to do it.

I really did find courage in these powerful words of wisdom and I continue to use these travelling alone quotes on my own social media all the time.

That’s why I wanted to share them with you!

I’ve hand-picked these 75 empowering solo travel quotes which should (hopefully) motivate you to book that solo trip! 

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The 75 best solo travel quotes

Here is the very best collection of uplifting quotes on solo travel that I absolutely love!

I have used many of these myself on my own social media channels over the years.

Feel free to save these by copying and pasting them on your own social media accounts. 

Or follow along with my solo adventures @thirdeyetraveller on Instagram! 

Short & sweet solo travel quotes

• “Some journeys can be only traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “Go solo, go far!” – Unknown

4.  “Travel is an investment in yourself” – Anonymous

5.  “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

6. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Buddha

7. “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

8. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

9. “Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

10. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

11.  “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius

12. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” Freya Stark

13.  “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

14. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

15. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne Du Maurier

16. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

17. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

18. “You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley

19. “Dare to live the life you always wanted” – Unknown

20. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

21. “I can and I will, watch me” Carrie Green

22. “Not all those who wander are lost” – J.R.R Tolkien 

23. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

Exciting solo travel quotes

24. “Without new experiences something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”  – Frank Herbert

25.  “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner.

26.“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” —Freya Stark

27. “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

28. “Who goes alone can start today; but who travels with another must wait till that other is ready” – Henry David Thoreau

29. “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

30. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

31. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

32. “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

33. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

34. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”  – Dalai Lama

Inspiring travel alone quotes for conquering fear

35. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

36. “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart

37. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” —Thomas Jefferson

38.“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.” —Walt Whitman

39. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.

40. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll

41. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

42. “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

43. “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhileration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

44. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

45. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks

46. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place” – Nora Roberts

Life changing & motivational solo travel quotes

47. “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 Kerouac

48.“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –   Mark Twain

49.  “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”  – Saint Augustine

50.  “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live in?” – Caroline Myss

51. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein

52. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

53. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

54. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Riding solo quotes

55. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

56. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine

57. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

58. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling

59. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is” – Angelina Jolie

60. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed” – Kate Douglas Wiggin

61. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question”  – Harun Yahya

62. “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!”  – Unknown

Solo female travel quotes

63. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

64.  “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

65. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

66. “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.”  – Dilma Rousseff

67. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

68. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

69. “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” – Barbara De Angelis

70. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

Funny solo travel quotes 

71. “I’m sorry for what I said when I wasn’t travelling” – Unknown

72. “I need a six month vacation, twice a year” – Anonymous

73. “The only aisle I want to be walking down is on a plane” – Unknown

74. “You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a plane ticket and that’s kind of the same thing” – Uknown

75. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”  – Cheryl Strayed

I hope you enjoyed this list of the best solo travel quotes!

So, that’s all folks. Those are the 75 most inspiring travelling alone quotes.

I hope you found them useful and feel free to use any of them on your own social media accounts! 

If you do need any more motivation or reasons why you should travel solo. Feel free to contact me or write a comment below. I’ll be happy to provide some advice. 

At the end of the day, you’ll never regret taking yourself on an exciting adventure. So, have faith and go for it!

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Friday 28th of January 2022

Loved it! I enjoyed reading your quotes. Stepping out into the unknown with no one else to rely on, you come to learn to learn so much about yourself. Often these solo trips are life-changing adventures. Fav one “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations”, well said. Sometimes I write about the quotes too.

Sophie Pearce

Saturday 29th of January 2022

Hi Dragana, thanks so much for sharing! I totally agree! Sophie x

125 Solo Travel Quotes To Inspire You to Travel Alone Without Fear!

Looking for some inspirational solo travel quotes or travel alone quotes? You are in the right place because this blog is all about solo travel.

So, in this post, you will find those travelling alone quotes of wisdom that will inspire you to step out alone.

If you have never traveled alone or been hesitant about traveling by yourself, these words will kindle your desire to explore the world alone.

Why check these solo travel captions?

As a solo female traveler, some of these solo travel quotes push me to pack my bags when I have cold feet before going off on an adventure.

I hope these quotes about traveling alone will do the same to you. Go ahead and check what some of the world’s best authors, travelers, and explorers have got to say about solo travel.

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BEST SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Let’s start this epic list with the best solo travel quotes.

These quotes about traveling alone will surely uplift your morale, especially if you are contemplating planning your first solo trip.

Whether you are looking for some motivational words to inspire you to take the leap of faith, or encouragement to go do it, these travel alone quotes will boost your morale to a great degree.

‘I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.’ – Roman Payne

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

These words ring true and are more relevant today than ever. I know solo traveling can be intimidating because I have been there.

But it just lasts until you take that first step. Once you do, nobody can stop you from making you the queen of your life.

Whenever you start feeling butterflies in your stomach, return to these quotes for travelling alone to beat your fears and doubts.

‘Anything we fully do is an alone journey.’  —  Natalie Goldberg

‘Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.’ – The Dhammapada

‘My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude .’ – Warsan Shire

‘Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.’ – John Mayer

One of my favorite solo travel quotes is this one above by John Mayer that runs so deep, and it isn’t about travel alone. It is important to cultivate self-love, something we forget or take for granted.

When we start spending time with ourselves more, traveling becomes an extension of that.

And this is one of the best solo travel quotes that describe it best.

You will never know if traveling alone is for you not until you give a try, right?

These solo travel quotes give that push or nudge with their powerful descriptions of all the emotions associated with being alone on the road.

‘Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.’ -Walt Whitman

‘The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.’  –  Alan Ashley-Pitt 

‘When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.’ – Diane Von Furstenberg

‘ I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.’  —  Thomas Jefferson

‘Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.’ – Ken Poirot

‘I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.’ -Storm Jameson

‘There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale 

‘Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.’ – Wendell Berry

‘Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.’ – Henry Rollins

Traveling alone is not just exploring places.

It is an opportunity to discover yourself, and these words best describe what solo travel is.

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‘To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.’ – Unknown

‘Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.’ – Grace Lichtenstein

This is probably one of the deepest solo travel quotes out there.

‘When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.’ — Shauna Niequist 

One of the things about solo travel is that you don’t have others to share your experiences. And these words about traveling alone poetically explains how it is best.

BEST TRAVEL ALONE QUOTES

This list of solo travel quotes are the best ones, some of my favorites that I keep coming back to.

If you are having second thoughts due to the fear of being by yourself or encountering dangers, don’t let these things stop you.

Check out these amazing quotes for travelling alone that will boost your confidence for sure.

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” – Caroline Myss

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” –  Henry Ford

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good.” —Amy Poehler

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” –  Angelina Jolie

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

FAMOUS SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Below is the list of solo travel quotes that are well-known.

These beautiful quotes about travelling alone have become synonymous with going solo, and I am sure these words are a kind of anthem for those solo travelers out there.

‘Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.’ – Jacqueline Boone

‘I am willing to put myself through anything. Temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.’ – Diana Nyad

Sometimes, the unknown roads can be daunting.

Traveling by yourself can be a scary feeling as the fear of unknown places envelopes. But this quote about traveling alone positively inspires.

‘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

Solo travel is about getting over your comfort zone. Most of us are probably afraid to step out of this zone, but these solo travel quotes below are encouraging.

‘As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.’ – Ella Maillart

Travel changes us in ways that we hardly expect.

It widens our horizons, opens our mind to new perspectives and enriches us. And this is one of the best solo travel quotes that explain this.

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‘I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.’ – Mary Anne Radmacher

‘You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.’ – Sue Fitzmaurice

“Through travel, I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty  

To awaken, quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.  –  Freya Stark

One of the solo travel quotes that speak of the enriching journey is this one below.

‘I learned my strengths and weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between. I gained courage, and I learned it myself ‘ – Ann Stirk

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” – David Hewson

‘I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.’ — Daphne du Maurier

‘It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.’ – Mae Chevrette

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” – Alain de Botton

“The more I travelled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

‘Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.’ – Holly Morris

‘Travel brings power and love back into your life.’ – Rumi

‘I am never alone when I am in a foreign city. It is as if I had become invisible.’ – Storm Jameson

‘There is a kind of magic about going far away and then coming back all changed.’ – Kate Douglas Wiggin

More travel alone quotes for your inspiration.

‘There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.’ – Jack Kerouac

‘Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.’ – Ewan Mcgregor

‘The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.’ – Paul Theroux

‘Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.’ – Mary Ritter Beard

‘When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.’ – Liberty Hyde Bailey

‘For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.’ – Mae West

‘Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.’- Libba bray

‘Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.’ – Lovelle Drachman

‘The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.’ – Diane Von Furstenberg

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SOLO FEMALE TRAVEL QUOTES

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 “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” – Dilma Rousseff

“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.” – Kilroy J. Oldster

“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other” – Norma Shearer

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” — Rumi

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

QUOTES ON TRAVEL LING ALONE

Below is the list of go solo quotes that are poetic and at the same time inspire us to looking within.

“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.” – Margaret Mead

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning of the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between. This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.” – David Baldacci

“For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.” — Pico Iyer

“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” —Margaret Shepard

“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

MORE INSPIRING SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Whether you are looking for fly solo quotes to feel free like a bird, or inspirational quotes for travelling alone, these solo travel quotes will do the job for you.

‘We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.’ – Anais Nin

‘Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.’ – Robert Frost

‘As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘It is not down in any map; true places never are.’ – Herman Melville

‘And if I’d be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I’d find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.’ ―  Aspen Matis

‘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.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.’ – Flemish proverb

‘I had chosen to leave and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.’ – Alison Singh Gee

‘No matter how you travel, it’s still you going.’  –  Jeff Goldblum

‘Travel -The Best Way To Be Lost And Found At The Same Time.’ – Brenna Smith

‘Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.’ –  John Muir

‘If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.’  – Cesare Pavese

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust, and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

‘Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘Travel Doesn’t Become Adventure Until You Leave Yourself Behind.’ – Marty Rubin

‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ – Andre Gorde

‘What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.’ – William Least Heat Moon

‘You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.’ – Unknown

‘Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.’ –  Gayle Foreman

‘Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.’ –  Unknown

‘Traveling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.’ – Mark Foster

‘I didn’t know where I was going until I got there.’ –  Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed , the author of the best-selling book ‘Wild’ is one of those women with whom I can resonate with. Her journey has been similar to mine, and she beautifully transitions the stages of grief after a loss. Her words are one of the best solo travel quotes for women who are afraid of what lies beyond.

If you are a solo female traveler or someone having second thoughts about traveling alone, you should look up for more about her journey to inspire you.

Here are words about going home:

“The beautiful thing about going alone is that every triumph is yours, every consequence of every mistake is yours, everything that you have to figure out is on you. That’s a really powerful experience. And sometimes it is beautiful and positive and exciting, and sometimes it’s negative and hard and lonely. I wanted that. I welcomed that.” —Cheryl Strayed

‘If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.’ – Gina Greenlee

‘Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.’ – Alan Keightley

‘Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!’ –  Unknown

‘Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.’ – Roy M. Goodman

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

SHORT TRAVEL ALONE QUOTES

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“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.” – Ken Poirot

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.” – Paul Cezanne

“Go solo, go far.”

“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.” – Louise Arner Boyd

“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

“Walk your own path and be yourself.” – Joanne Nussbaum

“You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

“If you never go, you’ll never know.”

“Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost.”

“Traveling solo took away my irrational fears.”

“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” – Elizabeth Lim

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” – Aaron Lauritsen

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” – Mary Oliver

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Anthony Robbins

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

AWESOME QUOTES ABOUT TRAVEL ALONE

‘Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.’ – Helen Thayer

‘Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.’ – Simon Raven

‘Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.’ – Suzy Strutner

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‘A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes

‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.’- Helen Keller

‘Sometimes, the journey has to be traveled alone to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.’ – Steven Aitchison

‘The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.’ – Sir Richard Burton

‘The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.’ – Agnes Repplier

‘Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.’ – Neale Donald Walsch

‘Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere will always haunt me.’ – Isabelle Eberhard

‘Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.’ – Matthew Karsten

‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ – Andre Gide

‘The best education I have ever received was through travel.’ – Lisa Ling

SOLO TRIP QUOTES

“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless

“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.” – Nico J. Genes

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” — Marie Beynon Ray

“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

“If I would have waited for someone else to join me on my travels, I would still be waiting.”

It is better to see something once than to hear about hundred times. – Russian Proverb

 “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. ” Alain de Botton

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” – Becca Lee

“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.” – Jewel E. Ann

“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.” —Colin Wright

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.” – Aisha Mirza

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” —Paulo Coelho

SOLO RIDE QUOTES 

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr

“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.” – David Cuschieri

 “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.” – John Masefield

“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.” – Helen S. Rosenau

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” —Roald Dahl

 “I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.” – Alison Singh Gee

“This journey has always been about reaching your own another shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.” – Diana Nyad

“Solo Travel is all about exploring the world and one’s own-self.”

TRAVEL ALONE CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

The below list of Instagram captions are the best solo travel quotes that you can check out.

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how this is not a red herring; it’s a map.” – Gina Greenlee

“A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity.” – Lauren Kleefeld

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

 “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.” – Albert Camus

“Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!”

“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

“One of the reasons I travel solo: I do not have to share all the delicious food!”

“A traveler should be happy, not perfect!”

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” – Oprah Winfrey

“There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.” – Alphonse De Lamartine

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha

“A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

“I guess I’m too selfish to travel well with other people.” – Alice Steinbach

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.” – Katharine McGee

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

“It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s the magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.” – Timi Nadela

“Being a solo traveler made me an adult.”

UNUSUAL QUOTES ABOUT TRAVELING ALONE

There are some solo travel quotes that might have been missed out in getting their limelight because these are some of the most meaningful thoughts that crossed the minds of people whose passion to explore the horizons of the earth superseded everything.

Here are a few more of these quotes about solo travel.

‘You don’t have to be rich to travel well.’ – Eugene Fodor

‘Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale

‘If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.’ – James Michener

‘The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.’ ― Elizabeth Gilbert

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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.’ – Paul Theroux

‘He travels the fastest who travels alone.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘People don’t take trips, trips take people.’ – John Steinbeck

‘When overseas you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.’ – Clint Borgen

‘Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.’ – Bob Dylan

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.’ – Andrew O’ Hagan

The words above must probably one of the most meaningful solo travel quotes ever said.

‘A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.’ – George A. Moore

‘The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The journey is the reward.’ — Chinese proverb

‘Once you have travelled, 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.

‘After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.’ – Amelia Earhart

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BEST CAPTIONS ABOUT TRAVEL LING ALONE

Bill Bryson is one of the authors that I enjoy reading, and most of the times, he travels solo, which makes his works interesting. In one of the solo travel quotes, he describes what it is like to travel alone

‘To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.’ – Bill Bryson

‘Wanna feel the warm breeze. Sleep under a palm tree. Feel the rush of the ocean. Get onboard a fast train. Travel on a jet plane, far away.’ – Kelly Clarkson 110. ‘To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.’ – Jeanne Moreau

‘We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.’ – Mark Jenkin

‘To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.’ –  Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.’ – Joe Abercrombie

‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.’ – Martin Buber

‘Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.’ –   Pablo Neruda

‘In the depth of winter I final learned that there was in me an invincible summer.’ –  Albert Camus

‘We must go beyond 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

‘Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.’ – Miriam Beard

‘Travel empties everything you have into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.’ – Claire Fontaine

‘I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.’ – Frank Borman

‘With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.’ – Sandra Lake

‘One of the great things about travel is you find out how many goods, kind people there are.’ – Edith Wharton

‘It is better to travel well than to arrive.’ – Buddha

‘We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.’ – Gloria Gaither

This exhaustive list of solo travel quotes should inspire you to take that first step. Solo travel can be scary, but it doesn’t have it to be that way. Hope this solo adventure quotes will guide you to tons of happiness.

It’s all in your mind, and once you travel you will realize that traveling by yourself isn’t as scary as you thought it would be. Happy solo travels!

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65 Inspiring & Uplifting Travel Alone Quotes for Solo Travel

When you’re on the road solo or planning to travel alone, quotes can help to inspire and uplift you. These 65 beautiful solo travel quotes from literature, pop culture and history make the perfect solo travel captions for social media.

You only need to search the internet to see there are millions of inspirational quotes about travelling out there. Solo travel quotes have a special ingredient – not only can they ignite wanderlust and stoke passion for the great unknown, they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to a solo traveller who is facing the world alone.

Solo travel is a life-changing experience . As with all travel, it’s often difficult to find the right words to describe your trip, or to convey how travel has altered your life once you get back home.

To give your confidence and boost and help you share your solo travel experience with the world, I’ve curated this epic list of 65 meaningful and insightful travel alone quotes.

Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip. However you choose to use these solo travel quotes, they are guaranteed to inspire and delight!

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Short and sweet solo travel quotes

Short travel alone quotes are perfect for social media, including solo travel announcements (that exciting moment when you make your trip official!), or your first travel solo travel update from the road.

These popular and not-so-famous quotations beautifully capture what it’s like to travel alone, with only yourself for company.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.”

– Freya Stark

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.”

– Storm Jameson

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.”

– Hannah Arendt

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”

– Isabelle Eberhardt

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.”

– Debasish Mridha

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.”

– Gina Greenlee

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”

– John Mayer

“Some journeys can be only travelled alone!”

– Ken Poirot

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

– Maxwell Maltz

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.”

– Paul Cezanne

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”

– Mandy Hale

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”

– Diane Von Furstenberg

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”

– Daphne Du Maurier

“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.”

– Timi Nadela

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.”

– Aisha Mirza

“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.”

“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.”

– Paul Theroux

“I used to be a pedestrian before, now I am the rider on the same road.”

– Piyush Paudyal

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

– Anaïs Nin

Motivational quotes for planning a solo trip

When you’re planning to visit a new country or a foreign city by yourself for the first time, the hardest part can be finding the inner courage to pack your backpack and make your solo travel dreams a reality.

These travel alone quotes speak to the very heart of solo travel – the push and pull between indecision , wanting to do the right thing while also finding freedom and empowering yourself to spread your wings.

You may feel nervous – that’s totally normal – but have faith that a well-planned solo journey is almost always a step in the right direction.

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”

– Erol Ozan

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”

– Nitin Namdeo

“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.”

– Anthon St. Maarten

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.”

– Holly Morris

“A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

– Gael Attal

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

Poetic quotes about solo travel

These longer solo travel quotes are nothing short of art.

“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendour and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.”

– Kilroy J. Oldster

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.”

– Mitali Meelan

“It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… “Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” 

– Alain de Botton

“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.”

– Micheline Jean Louis

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.”

– David Baldacci

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.”

Solo female travel quotes

Solo female travel is becoming more and more popular. I’ve done a few solo trips in recent years, and it never ceases to amaze me how different my travel experience is when I’m alone rather than with my partner or friends.

These quotations capture the independent spirit of solo female travellers.

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”

“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.”

– Nico J. Genes

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

– Lalah Delia

Quotes that prove solo travel makes you stronger

Solo travel often starts with taking a leap of faith. If it’s your first solo trip, you must actively work on believing in yourself and trusting your instincts.

Sometimes in travel (and in life), the only certainty is uncertainty. Things won’t always be easy, things wont’ always go to plan. Barriers and hurdles are almost guaranteed – but these experiences are likely to make you stronger and more resilient.

These travel alone quotes are all about testing your limits.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

– Neale Donald Walsch

“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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”

“It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.”

– Mae Chevrette

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”

– Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.”

– David Cuschieri

Quotations that prove solo travel changes your perspective

I’ve never met anyone who decided to solo travel and came back the same person. Travel changes you – that’s undeniable – and often travel alone can shape you in ways you never could have anticipated.

One of the greatest lessons travel can teach you is to be humble. Travel helps you find your place in the world. A solo trip can give you the tools you need to tackle all of life’s adventures – and misadventures, too.

These solo travel quotes refer to self-discovery, breaking through your comfort zone, and seeing travel as a motif for the journey of life.

“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

– Pico Iyer

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.”

– Grace Lichtenstein

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.”

– Pablo Holmberg

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”

– Marty Rubin

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

– David McCullough Jr.

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

– Gustav Flaubert

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.”

– Angela Vallely

“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.”

– Helen S. Rosenau

Remember, your trip might start out as a solo adventure but it might not end that way! It’s the bonds you form along the way that often make travel truly memorable.

For more inspiration, check out these beautiful quotes about travelling with friends .

“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”

– Jacqueline Boone

Coming home: Solo travel quotes to mark the end of a journey

All good journeys must come to an end! It feels like just yesterday friends and family were wishing you a safe journey , and now it’s time to go back to the people you love.

These quotes sum up the bittersweet feeling of coming home after a solo trip.

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”

– A.J. Hartley & David Hewson

“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.”

– Jewel E. Ann

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”

– Ron Franscell

“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.”

– Louise Arner Boyd

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.”

– Becca Lee

“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.”

– Elizabeth Lim

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”

– Katharine McGee

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

– Mary Oliver

That’s a wrap! I hope these 65 travel alone quotes have made you see solo travel in a new light, or perhaps motivated you to take the leap into solo travel.

Do you have any more inspiring quotes to share? I’d love to hear them in the comments below!

“Challenges are opportunities for growth and learning. Embrace them and see how far you can go.”

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Wonderful quotes for solo travellers. The solo female traveller quotes are also interesting.

This quotes make people strong to take decision and travel alone. Thanks for sharing such types of motivating quotes.

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Beautiful quotes. I love them all. Thanks for sharing.

These quotes will definitely encourage anyone to go for solo travelling. Everyone will be inspired by these. Thank you.

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Solo travel has been a growing trend for a number of years as more individuals are discovering how powerful it can be. Stepping out into the unknown with no one else to rely on, you come to learn to learn so much about yourself. Often these solo trips are life-changing adventures. Here are some solo travel quotes for those traveling alone or thinking about embarking on a solo adventure.

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Are you contemplating a solo trip? If so, you’re not alone. Around the world, people are packing their bags and hitting the open road without anyone else but themselves. And for good reason: Solo travel is an incredible way to learn about yourself, see the world in a new light, and make lasting memories. These 59 quotes will inspire you to explore the world alone and discover all that it has to offer.

Solo Travel Quotes

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Nikola Tesla

The best thinking has been done in solitude. Thomas A. Edison

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it. Freya Stark

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. Daphne du Maurier

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity . Make your life worth living. Albert Einstein

Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you. Steven Aitchison

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. David McCullough Jr.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. John Mayer

Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time. Brenna Smith

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It’s a unique experience and one that is so self-educating. Kunal Khemu

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. Seneca

I’ve often been with someone and wished I was alone. I’ve never been alone and wished I was not. Derek Sivers

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. Lewis Carroll

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 far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Von Goethe

Not being comfortable alone means you must spend more time alone. Maxime Lagacé

Without great solitude no serious work is possible. Pablo Picasso

I myself am best when least in company. William Shakespeare

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life. Paulo Coelho

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. Ayn Rand

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

To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself. Dag Hammarskjold

Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime. Jacqueline Boone

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. Voltaire

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. William James

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. Isabelle Eberhardt

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Henry Rollins

When you’re travelling with someone, you share each discovery . But when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it. Shauna Niequist

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Rolf Potts

Wherever you go, go with all your heart! Confucius

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn 

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. Liberty Hyde Bailey

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. George Washington

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley

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

Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury

Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself. Walt Whitman

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau

A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. Pico Iyer

Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. Marty Rubin

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius

Travel brings power and love back to your life. Rumi

The journey not the arrival matters. T.S. Eliot

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known . Carl Sagan

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong. Sue Fitzmaurize

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown. You travel for the unknown, the reveals you within yourself. Ella Maillart

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

A Final Word

So what are you waiting for? Get inspired by these quotes, plan your dream trip and go explore the world solo. Have we convinced you yet that there’s nothing quite like traveling on your own terms?

Have any other solo travel quotes you’d add to the collection? Which is your favorite? Let us know in the comments – we’d love to hear it!

You might also enjoy these related quote collections:

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• Quotes About Vacations
• Quotes About Being Authentic and Authenticity
• Quotes About Exploration
• Quotes About Journeys

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Feeling anxious about going on a solo trip? These quotes for traveling alone will help ease your anxiety. And pst! They also make for awesome Instagram captions!

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Despite having traveled to numerous foreign countries on my own, I still get the heebie-jeebies whenever I fly solo. So hey, I get it! Traveling alone is nerve-wrecking and it’s not necessarily for everyone.

Before you dismiss the idea completely, however, these traveling solo quotes just might change your mind by giving you a little confidence boost.

I’m a firm believer in going on a solo adventure at least once in your life. You never know until you try, and trust me when I say there is nothing more empowering than knowing that you are capable of more than you imagine.

Best Solo Journey Quotes

• One journey alone is equal to a hundred motivational books.
• If you believe yourself worthy of the destination, then you can embark on any journey.
• Book that trip, become a globetrotter, and enjoy your own company.
• First, you pick a place where you want to go. Then, you just go for it.
• Am I going on an adventure alone? Yes, definitely!
• It might be a little scary, but traveling solo is also very liberating.
• Find time for yourself and you’ll realize that everywhere is actually within walking distance.
• Every so often, a leap of faith is what you need as your means of transport.
• One of the most pleasant experiences in the world is waking up alone in a place that is dreamingly distant from the mundane.
• Solitude intensifies the thrill and excitement of journeying to faraway lands.

• A solo journey is your very own adventure.
• Are you still waiting for a sign that it’s time to start your grand solo adventure? This is it!
• Wherever your comfort zone ends is where your true life begins.
• When you spend too much time waiting for other people, you miss out on many of life’s blessings.
• I do what I want, when I want, where I want!
• Good things come to those who book a solo adventure.
• Happiness is when I’m thriving independently in a distant and unfamiliar place. It makes me feel invincible.
• Traveling solo made me realize that fear keeps strangers from becoming friends.

Short Quotes on Solo Travel

• Go solo, go far.
• Solo travel is my therapy.

• Me, myself, and I.
• Give yourself the gift of solo travel.
• Explore, experience, and push beyond.
• Free is how I want to live my life.
• Book that solo trip and get moving.
• You’ll never know if you never go.
• Lonesomeness adds beauty to life.
• Embrace the beauty of traveling solo.
• Explore. Dream. Discover.
• The greatest travel is the one by yourself.

• Solivagant (n) – solitary wanderer.
• Travel alone, never lonely.  
• Jump right in and travel on your own.
• Why not go solo?
• Crazy how far I can go solo.
• Embracing solitude.
• Revel in the act of wandering alone.
• Venture into the unknown alone.
• Go and see for yourself.  
• Living my best life, one plane ticket at a time.
• Just be yourself and traverse your own path.
• Falling in love with traveling solo.

Self-Discovery Quotes

• “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye.
• By traveling solo, you get to know the real you.  
• You become capable of sincerer contemplation and reflection when you travel alone.
• “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein.
• Rest your mind, take a break, venture out alone, and figure everything else at your own pace.
• “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau.
• Meeting amazing places and people, but most importantly, meeting myself.
• “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely.

Motivational Solo Trip Captions for Instagram

• Great people do things before they’re ready. They know that if they bide their time, they will never get anywhere.
• Everything is your own when you decide to go alone. Every triumph, every mistake, every discovery – the world is yours to conquer!
• As you travel solo, you discover how capable you really are.
• Just a bit of courage is all you need to do a lot of awesome things on your own.

• Your world isn’t for anyone else to discover. Venture out and go explore it on your own.
• Go take that solo adventure! You only need yourself to explore and enjoy the world.
• Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!
• Friendly reminder: Once you realize you can do it alone, you become a very powerful person.

Funny Solo Travel Captions

• If I waited for anyone to join my travels, I would probably still be waiting.
• Traveling solo took away my irrational fears!
• Being a solo traveler made me an adult.
• Most of my problems can be solved with a solo trip to anywhere.
• If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!
• I just wanted to get one epic photo so my ex knows I’m having a better life without him.
• “I guess I’m too selfish to travel well with other people.” – Alice Steinbach.

Flying Alone Quotes

• Fly solo, soar free, and defy gravity!
• Those who fly solo have the strongest wings.
• Free as a bird.
• Traveling solo means not having to alternate who gets the window seat.

• Do what is right, even if you’re flying solo.
• “What good are wings without the courage to fly?” – Harper Lee.
• Your wings already exist. All you have to do is fly.
• Never not happy flying alone.

Solo Female Travel Quotes

• “The woman who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been.” – Albert Einstein.  
• “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” – Jane Austen.
• “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg.
• “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West.
• “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne.
• “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia.

Food Quotes About Traveling Alone

• Table for one, but food for two, please.
• One of the perks of solo travel is that no one will steal my fries.
• I know they say to follow your heart, but my stomach is leading the way.
• Eat well, travel often.
• Happiest when eating.
• Good thing I packed my stretchy pants.
• One of the reasons I travel solo: I do not have to share all the delicious food!
• Will travel for food.

More Solo Travel Quotes for Instagram

• Getting out of one’s own box means realizing how much bigger the world really is.  
• Kick-starting your solo journey is always the hardest part. The rest is easy.

• Life is fleeting, and the world is expansive. The sooner you start your worldly adventure, the better.
• No one ever really travels alone. There is no shortage of strangers just waiting to be your friend.
• Embrace the right mindset, and you’ll find traveling solo exciting and liberating.
• It is freeing how solo travel unshackles us from other people’s expectations.
• Sceneries are so much more fetching when one is alone.
• It is easier to appreciate and cherish life when you are all alone in a faraway land.
• Certain escapades can only be traveled alone.
• A solo road trip means not having to take turns choosing the playlist.
• Never underestimate the power of a solo road trip and super loud tunes.
• There is, what we call, an impossible journey. It’s the one you don’t begin.

• Decide to venture alone, and you can start right away. Bring someone with you, and you’ll have to wait until they’re ready.
• I just love traveling solo and living my own life.
• How thrilling it is to dive into the unknown alone.
• Blessed are those who are courageous enough to travel on their own.
• Do not waver. Hesitation about traveling alone will lead you nowhere.
• When you travel, you should go with the person you love the most, which is why I always travel on my own.

Famous Solo Trip Quotes

• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch.
• “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” – Ken Poirot.
• “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins.
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain.

• “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin.
• “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde.
• “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin.
• “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner.
• “Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” – Steven Aitchison.
• “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” – Freya Stark.

Other Popular Solo Traveler Quotes & Sayings

• “The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.” – Shannon Ables.
• “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler.
• “Traveling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.” – Mark Foster.
• “The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand.
• “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer.
• “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson.
• “We must travel in the direction of our fear.” – John Berryman.
• “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha.
• “Loving life is easy when you are abroad – where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone. You are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt.

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Powerful Quotes for Travelling Alone

March 21, 2021

Solo travel can be exhilarating, exhausting and emotional. But I’ve always found it worth it. Sometimes, though, you can use a helping hand. So I’ve gathered together some of my favourite quotes for travelling alone, as well as some more practical info to help you on your next solo trip.

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The Best Quotes for Travelling Alone

Through work and a passion for exploration, I’ve travelled alone through the desert sands of the Sahara, the ice of the Arctic Circle and the sweaty tropics of southern India. Some things have made life much easier, like having the right kit. So before you travel anywhere, check out the international travel checklist and ultimate travel packing list here.

Also, while many of these solo travel quotes wax lyrical about self-sufficiency, remember there’s nothing wrong with booking onto a tour or a cruise if that’s what you’d prefer. Suffering doesn’t make something more meaningful. 

There’s a whole world of travel experiences that cater for solo travellers these days, from luxury cruises in the Amazon rainforest like this to the ultimate in rest and relaxation in a Greek villa,  like this .

Right, that said, let’s get on to the inspirational stuff. Whether it’s your first trip or your forty-first, here are some of the best quotes for travelling alone.

Self Sufficiency Quotes

“I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.” –  Cheryl Strayed

“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” Unknown.

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.” –   Suzy Strutner

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” – Henry Ford

Meaning of Life Solo Travel Quotes

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” –  Pablo Holmberg

“You have to get lost before you can be found” –  Jeff Rasley

“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

“You will never be alone if you like the person you are with!” Unknown.

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” –  Grace Lichtenstein

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”  – Unknown

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” –  Angela Vallely

More Quotes About Travelling Alone

When it comes to finding quotes about travelling alone, you’ll notice they’re not all solo female travel quotes. As a woman, I think it’s great to see the explosion in articles and confidence encouraging women to hit the road. And while men and women face different challenges when it comes to their first time or forty-first trip, some things remain the same: buy travel insurance , take a deep breath and enjoy your trip!

Making Friends While Travelling Alone

 “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” –  Jacqueline Boone

“You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!” Unknown.

More Solo Traveller Quotes

Having Fun & Falling in Love

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” Freya Stark.

More Travel Solo Quotes

Not letting life pass you by.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”  – Unknown

“Go solo, go far.”  – Unknown

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” —  John Mayer

“Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”  – Kein Poirot

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” —  Buddha

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” –  Ayn Rand

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

More Travel Alone Quotes

Quotes about travelling alone that reveal the truth.

One day, you will look back and learn about all these adventures and new experiences through the fading grandeur of your own memories. And that’s the best way to look at things!

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

In other words, when you travel alone, you get to do what you want!

Quotes That Need Some Caveats (!)

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” –  Caroline Myss

I mean. I kinda see what she’s getting at here but also… When you’re travelling alone, sometimes the best thing you can do is listen to that fear and get yourself out of a dangerous situation. So, go with the poetry but don’t forget the practical.

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

I think for this to make sense, you have to have a pretty big idea about yourself before you start ;-) 

“If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

And perhaps my all time favourite…

 “If you never go, you’ll never know.” –  Unknown

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50 Best Travel Alone Quotes to Embrace Your Adventure Solo

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These travel alone quotes express all the joys and advantages of solo travel. While taking a trip with your friends or family can be fun, traveling alone offers its own perks: planning your own schedule, visiting all of the places you’re interested in, and, most importantly, getting to know yourself better.

Whether you’re looking for travel inspiration or a way to sum up your trip, this collection of traveling alone quotes has something for every solo traveler, including short solo travel quotes, solo female travel quotes , and solo travel funny quotes.

Short quotes on traveling alone

Solo travel funny quotes, inspirational solo travelling quotes, solo female travel quotes.

Take the time to read through all these lone traveller quotes so you can find your favorites and save them for the next time you’re planning a solo trip or reminiscing about your last adventure .

These short and sweet solo trip quotes are just what you need for a quick burst of inspiration.

1. “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

This solo journey quote sums up one of the biggest advantages of traveling alone: getting to know yourself better!

2. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

While traveling with others can be quite enjoyable, solo travel can allow you to really appreciate the places you visit and the experiences you have, as this love to travel alone quote reminds us.

3. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

As this vacation alone quote suggests, finding out more about yourself is one of the most important parts of going on an adventure. That’s why traveling alone can be so rewarding.

4. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

As this solo trip quote points out, it can be hard to find a compatible travel partner. It’s better to plan an amazing trip and travel alone than to be stuck with someone you don’t mesh well with.

5. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

This traveling solo quote reminds us to live life to the fullest and make every day an adventure if we can.

6. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

I love how this quote about traveling alone puts a positive spin on being alone in an unfamiliar place, something many people might find scary or intimidating.

7. “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski

When you’re a solo traveler, there’s no one you have to show off to or change your personality for. Being alone means you can just be yourself.

8. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

This lonely traveller quote is a poetic way of expressing a lifetime commitment to travel and adventure. The nomadic lifestyle isn’t for everyone, but those who love it embrace it wholeheartedly.

9. “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

If you’re a solo traveler who gets lost often, this traveling by yourself quote is the one for you! Getting lost doesn’t have to be a bad thing; it can lead to even more fun and exciting adventures.

10. “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

This short solo travel quote sums up one of the most basic reasons for traveling alone: there’s no need to navigate scheduling conflicts! Traveling solo means you can start your trip tomorrow if you want to.

11. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

This solo adventure quote works for just about any person who loves traveling. If you love to travel as much as we do, then you’ll probably agree that traveling is an absolutely priceless experience.

12. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

This solo journey quote shows that any trip involves an internal journey as much as a physical one. Being a solo traveler will, of course, make that internal journey more intense.

13. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

I love this vacation alone quote because I think it’s so accurate: traveling alone does give you, by necessity, the chance to be more introspective and think about your trip.

14. “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

As this solo travel quote suggests, self-discovery is a significant part of traveling alone.

15. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

This lonely traveler quote shows that solo travel may be intimidating, but it could also turn out to be one of the best things you ever do. Why not give it a chance and see how you like it?

As these funny solo travel quotes show, there’s humor to be found in just about every situation, including traveling alone.

16. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

This witty solo female travel quote is perfect for all the solo travelers just trying to satisfy their wanderlust.

17. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

This famous quote about traveling alone captures the excitement and anticipation of planning where to go next.

18. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

No matter how far you travel, you’ll always end up encountering yourself. Hopefully, you’re happy with the self you meet!

19. “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope

As this funny quote about traveling alone points out, your luggage ends up traveling to quite a few places with you. If you check your bags, they’ll even go to places you haven’t been!

20. “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler

There’s nothing quite like cozying up in a luxurious hotel room bed with some room service, and this quote about solo travel sums up that feeling pretty nicely .

The best solo travel quotes will help you develop an appreciation for traveling alone and maybe even inspire you to start planning your next adventure. Check out these inspirational quotes about traveling alone for even more trip-planning motivation.

21. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

This traveling alone quote is a good reminder that there are some journeys we just have to take by ourselves. Whether you take this quote literally and plan a solo trip, or as a metaphor about living life, these are undeniably words of wisdom.

22. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

This solo traveller quote points out that our journey of discovering the world is a personal one. Fortunately, the more we discover about the world, the less we feel alone.

23. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.” – Henry David Thoreau

One huge benefit of traveling alone is that the only person whose schedule you have to worry about is yours! Take advantage of this freedom so you can go on your trip sooner rather than later.

24. “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

As this vacation alone quote suggests, if you enjoy getting lost in the crowd, then traveling alone is a great option.

25. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

This solo trip quote reminds us that sometimes solitude is a necessity. Make the most of your time alone and try to appreciate the advantages of solo travel.

26. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

This traveling alone quote offers a beautiful metaphor for thinking about life. Every road we travel, whether literal or symbolic, offers some way of finding out more about ourselves.

27. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

This solo adventure quote provides a lovely way of looking at the memories you make when you travel alone.

28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

This famous quote about traveling alone is a fantastic reminder that we should try to live life with no regrets. Trying to fulfill as many of our dreams as possible can help ensure that we don’t end up disappointed by what we haven’t done.

29. “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

I love this quote for traveling alone by the legendary Anthony Bourdain. It sums up the beauty and power of travel so perfectly.

30. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

As this travel solo quote points out, traveling alone means you’re not distracted by other people, so you can focus on and truly enjoy the beauty around you.

31. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” – Alain de Botton

As this traveling by yourself quote shows, when we travel with other people, we can be influenced by their opinions and impressions of the places we go. On the other hand, when we travel alone, we have the chance to see a place on our own terms.

32. “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

What’s the use of going on an adventure if you don’t have any good memories and stories to bring back with you? As this traveling alone quote reminds us, adventures can live on forever in our memories.

33. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

This very famous quote about traveling alone is so popular because a book is such an apt metaphor for explaining why traveling is so important.

34. “Some journeys can only be traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

This traveling solo quote cuts right to the chase: sometimes traveling alone really is best!

35. “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” – Gina Greenlee

Sometimes, your favorite part of a trip might not have anything to do with what you see. Instead, you might appreciate something totally intangible and personal .

Solo female travelers often have more to deal with and think about than other travelers, which can make traveling alone seem scary and even dangerous. If you’ve been thinking about traveling alone as a woman, these strong woman travel alone quotes will definitely inspire you to live out your dreams.

36. “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

This solo traveling quote makes a great point that traveling alone can actually be a good way to make new friends. Being by yourself means you’ll seek out new connections and get to meet people from all over the world.

37. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

This traveling alone as a woman quote points out that history’s most famous women have never been the ones who stayed at home and dreamed without putting those dreams into action.

38. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone; it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

As this solo travel quote suggests, traveling alone allows you to find freedom from others’ expectations and, instead, live life on your own terms.

39. “Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

This witty quote about solo female travel makes the perfect caption for photos of a trip around the world.

40. “My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

This quote for traveling alone will probably speak to all of the solo travelers out there who are full of wanderlust, especially since it expresses the spiritual fulfillment that can come from exploring far and wide.

41. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

I love this strong woman travel alone quote because it emphasizes how responsible you are for your own happiness. Ultimately, you’re the one who knows yourself best, so why not take yourself where you’re happiest?

42. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein

This solo female traveler quote points out that going off the beaten path can be a good thing. Take a risk and dare to go where no one else has ever gone.

43. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

This female solo travel quote is a lovely way of saying that solo female travelers can find a home just about anywhere in the world.

44. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Travel involves a lot of beautiful, magical experiences, some of which are so profound that they change our lives forever. These experiences could include everything from seeing the moon or watching the sun rise to looking out over a spectacular landscape.

45. “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt

As this solo adventure quote suggests, being alone in a foreign country allows you to escape every part of your everyday life and make the most out of living.

46. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

It can be tempting to panic when something goes wrong while you’re traveling. However, as this vacation alone quote shows, mistakes and mishaps can be the best way to learn and become even more confident.

47. “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 unknown can often be frightening, but this solo journey quote expresses the excitement and anticipation that can also come with not knowing what will happen next. In other words, sit back and enjoy the ride!

48. “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

This travelling alone quote really speaks to me because, like Edith Wharton, I think there are so many amazing people you can meet all over the world. Fortunately, solo travel is the perfect opportunity to meet at least a few of them.

49. “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

As this lonely traveler quote points out, there can be beauty and excitement in getting lost. It’s all part of the adventure!

50. “The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

This lovely quote about traveling alone has a great message: that we have so much in common with our fellow humans around the world. Even if we come from different backgrounds or countries, there will always be something we can share.

I hope these solo trip quotes sparked your wanderlust and inspired you to embark on a solo adventure! They’re also a great way to reflect on any past trips you’ve had.

Let me know in the comments which quote is your favorite (or maybe you have more than one!). If you need even more inspiration, check out these top 100 travel quotes .

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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

• Quotes , Travel Tips
• November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
• 12 min read

If you’re planning a holiday, fighting post-trip blues, or just scrolling through instagram travel photos, you can be sure there’s a quote about traveling out there that hits the spot for you.

Travel quotes to discover yourself, travel quotes to motivate your next journey, fantastic travel quotes to drive you to live your best life and more. We can all relate to inspirational travel quotes, making them so fun to read.

In this article, I gathered some of the most popular travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find these incredible travel quotes inspiring, and they’ll make you want to go out and see the world.

Famous travel quotes

1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”–Andre Gide

2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain

6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

7. “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

8. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu 

9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –Saint Augustine

11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – Anonymous

12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” —Robert Frost

14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” –Dalai Lama

15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill

16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”  – Anita Desai

17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”-Anonymous

18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”-Anonymous

20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc

22. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong

24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho

25. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin

26. “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

27. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain

29. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

30. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

31. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

32. “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

33. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

34. “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

35. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

36. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell

38. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

39. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

40. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

41. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

42. “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 Kerouac

43. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

44. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

45. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

46. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” –Randy Komisar

47. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” –Harun Yahya

48. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” –Unknown

49. “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

50. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

51. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

52. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

53. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

54. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

55. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

56. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

57. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

58. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

59. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

60. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

61. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

62. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

63. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

64. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

65. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

66. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

67. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

68. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

70. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

71. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

72. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

73. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

74. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

75. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

76. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

77. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

78. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

79. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

80. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

81. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

82. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

83. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

84. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

85. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

86. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery

87. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

88. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

89. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac

90. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli

91. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

92. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”   -Susan Heller

93. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

94. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.”   -Eric Weiner

95. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” -Robert Frost

96. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

97. “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.” – Anthony Bourdain

98. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” –Arthur Frommer

99. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” -Oscar Wilde

100. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde

It’s not a matter of where, but when. Time is precious and my time spent living and experience the cultures of this world is what I lust for. This is why I created this website, to share true, genuine experiences and not just typical touristy info. Travel, the love of coffee , and food!

149 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 149 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Contents hide 149 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

149 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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 journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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 acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

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

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley

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

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

No man is brave 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 great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply 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 keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

What is that feeling when you’re driving away 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 beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing 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 – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

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 reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

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 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.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across 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. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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.

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100 Most Inspiring Solo Travel Quotes

Thinking of travelling alone and searching for some travel solo quotes to inspire you? You’re in the right place. I know how scary solo travel can feel, I took my first solo trip to Australia when I was 18.

I’d just finished university and had a job starting a few months later, so I had some free time with no plans. My friends were taking gap years and were saving up to travel the following year, so it was either go alone, or don’t go at all. Although it felt really overwhelming at first, that trip changed me, and made me realise I can do anything I set my mind to. 

Since then, I’ve travelled to multiple countries on my own, and I’m pretty good at giving myself a pep talk if I’m ever feeling scared. But sometimes, there’s nothing like an inspirational quote to reassure you that even though it might feel scary, it’s SO worth it in the end. 

In this article, I’ve put together 100 of my favourite quotes to inspire your solo travel adventure. I’ve also added some pictures you can pin to your board on Pinterest, in case you want to come back to them later. Hopefully, after reading it, you’ll feel ready to take on the world. Ready for the 100 most inspiring travel solo quotes ? Let’s go. 

My FAVOURITE quote for solo travel

• “Feel the fear and do it anyway” – Susan Jeffers

This quote gets its own section because it’s my favourite quote ever, and not just for solo travel but for everyday life. I’m a big believer in acknowledging your fear and pushing through it, and not letting it hold you back.

Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed, this is the quote I whisper to myself. And I’ve used it a LOT. Most recently, was last summer, when my boyfriend and I visited Montserrat, a mountain range near Barcelona. We decided to walk up rather than take the cable car, and there’s different walking routes you can take depending on your experience level. I’d asked him multiple times to check which one we were taking because I know how easy it is to end up basically mountaineering, and I have a crippling fear of heights.

About 45 minutes later we were on a very narrow path, on the side of a mountain, after definitely taking the wrong route. I was completely overwhelmed and sat down on the floor crying like a toddler. It might sound like an overreaction, but for me, looking down the side of a mountain at a sheer drop is TERRIFYING. 

He immediately said “let’s go back and find a different way” but I’m extremely stubborn. So that wasn’t an option that even entered my head. 

I reminded myself of this quote, and it helped push me to keep going. That and the fact I gripped my boyfriend’s hand and refused to look over the edge. 

It’s the perfect travel solo quote – sure, there’s going to be times you’re scared, and that’s fine, just don’t let it stop you experiencing things.

Ok, now I’ve shared my favourite quote for solo travel, here’s the other 99. I’m just going to list the rest, no more long-winded stories!

Travel solo quotes to encourage you to take the leap

One of the hardest parts about planning to travel solo, is having the confidence to take the first step and book the trip. So these are my favourite travel solo quotes to remind yourself of if you’re debating whether to go for it. 

• “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
• Do not fear failure, but please, be terrified of regret. – Deshauna Barber
• “You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.” Colin Wright
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
• “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
• Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. – Gayle Foreman
• If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. – Gloria Steinem
• “Take the risk, or lose the chance” – Unknown 
• Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it. – Amy Dodson
• The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me? – Ayn Ran
• “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
• “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gorde
• “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer
• “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” — Margaret Shepard
• “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” — Anna Quindlen
• “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” — Paulo Coelho
•  “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” — Wendell Berry
• “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” — Kirsten Hubbard
• “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
• “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” —Brene Brown
• “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
• “Solo travel will push you out of your comfort zone and give you a confidence boost like nothing else can.” – Anonymous
• “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
• “Adventure awaits those who dare to leave their comfort zone.” – Unknown
• “I travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape me.” – Unknown
• “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
• “Adventure awaits for those who wander.” – Anonymous
• “Solo travel is not a break from life, but a chance to live life to the fullest.” – Unknown
•  “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Travel solo quotes if you feel overwhelmed 

As much as I love solo travelling, sometimes, it can feel overwhelming. You might be lost, and the only person you have to find the way is yourself. You might be in a hostel, trying to pluck up the courage to start a conversation with someone, or, you might just be feeling homesick. These solo trip quotes are perfect for reminding yourself why you’re doing it, and helping you to look for the positives. 

I find it reassuring to know that other people have done this before, and have felt the exact same way I have. You’re not the only one that finds solo travel scary, and there’s comfort in that.

• “Travelling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown
• “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone
• “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott
• “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton
• “Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little.” – Jane Wilson-Howarth
• “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.” — Unknown
• “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” — Micheline Jean Louis
• “One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.” — Sarah Glidden
• “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz
• “It’s ok to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” — Mandy Hale
• “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” —Arianna Huffington
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
• “In solo travel, you are forced to face your fears, discover your strengths, and learn to trust yourself.” – Unknown
• “The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

Inspiring travel solo quotes

These quotes are my favourite if you ever need to be reminded about how awe-inspiring this world is, and how much is waiting to be discovered. 

• “It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” — Anthony Bourdain
• There is a kind of magic-ness about going far away, and then coming back all changed. – Kate Douglas Wiggin“There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, “What if I fall?” Oh, but my darling, “What if you fly?” – Erin Hanson
• “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “It is better to see something once than to hear about hundred times.” — Russian proverb
• The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape. – Gina Greenlee
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
• “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert
•   “Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand. – Banksy
• “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” — Gina Greenlee
• “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show”
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “The solo traveller is not looking for an escape from life, but rather a way to experience it more fully.” -Shane Dallas
• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. – Hannah Arendt
• “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
• “The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of solo travel – to explore, to dream, to discover.” – Anonymous

Short travel solo quotes

• “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
• “I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.” — Carl Sagan
• “A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “Some journeys in life can only be travelled alone.” – Ken Poirot
• “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” — Rumi
• “There’s no right or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should try it at least once in their life.” — Susan Moore

Travel solo quotes about the benefits of going alone

If you’re ever feeling down about the fact you’re travelling alone, it can be helpful to remind yourself of all the benefits that come with it.

• “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson
• I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. – Daphne Du Maurier
• “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “The beauty of solo travel is that you have the freedom to follow your heart and let your spirit soar.” – Unknown
•  “Solo travel… it forces you to trust yourself, question yourself, and in turn, trust yourself even more.” — Brooke Saward
• “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey
• “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” — Gina Greenlee
• “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale
• “Solo travel is an opportunity to step out of your routine and embrace new adventures, experiences, and perspectives.” – Unknown
• “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”–  Henry Rollins
• “The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.”- Alan Ashley-Pitt
• “Solo travel is the perfect way to reconnect with nature, with yourself, and with the world around you.” – Unknown
• “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski
• “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux
• “Traveling alone is an opportunity to discover yourself and find your own way.” – Unknown
• “Solo travel is about finding the beauty in loneliness and learning to enjoy your own company.” – Unknown
• “Solo travel is an opportunity to discover parts of yourself that you never knew existed.” – Stephanie Lee

Long travel solo quotes

• “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.” —  Anthony Bourdain
• “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
• “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” — Alain de Botton
• “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
• Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good. —Amy Poehler

Travel solo quotes for women

• “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without travelling.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess
• “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
• “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — Albert Einstein  

The benefits of travelling solo

There’s SO many benefits of travelling alone, here’s a few of my favourites:

• You can do things on your schedule – this is my favourite thing about travelling alone. You want to get up really early and explore when there’s no around? No worries. Feeling really tired and you’d prefer to lie in? No worries. Not interested in heading to a bar and you’d prefer to read a book? All good. You can do whatever you want without having to consider another person’s interests.
• There’s no risk of falling out with someone – Travelling with another person, even just for a week, can be tricky. You’re spending all your time together, so you’re bound to get on each other’s nerves at one point. But there’s no worrying about that when you’re on your own.
• You learn so much about yourself – After travelling alone plenty of times, I truly feel that I can do anything. Something that once felt like such a big deal, feels like nothing to me now. You realise that you can do anything you put your mind to. Spending time truly alone is such a good way to understand what you like and dislike, without outside influence.
• You meet new people you might not usually cross paths with – Travelling solo is a great way to have interactions with different people. If you want to make friends, you’ll need to push yourself out of your comfort zone to talk to new people. And in turn you’ll learn more about a new culture, lifestyle, or way of doing things. It’s this interactions that broaden our horizons and change the way we view the world.

How to plan the perfect solo trip

FLIGHTS:  Find the cheapest flights using the  Skyscanner website. CAR HIRE:  I use Discover Cars whenever I’m hiring a car abroad. They compare lots of different providers and find you the best price. ACCOMMODATION:  Find the most affordable (+ beautiful) hotels on Booking.com . ACTIVITIES & DAY TRIPS: Book skip-the-line tickets to the best activities with Viator

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55+ Astounding Solo Travel Quotes to Make You Want to Travel Alone

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Setting out on a solo trip can change your perspective on life. Traveling on your own, no new experience is out of the question, and you’re free to change plans anytime you need them to. And while we can hardly think of anything better, traveling alone is something that many dream about or are too scared to undertake.

Perhaps you’re looking to start your own solo journey, need the motivation to keep going, or are just curious about the possibilities solo travel brings. In any case, I have compiled together a list of the best quotes about solo travel to fit any aspect.

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Motivational & Inspirational Solo Travel Quotes

Being alone in a strange new city is not only exhilarating, but it can also be nerve-wracking at the same time. But, solo travel has the power to transform your self-confidence and alter the course of your life. In fact, you might find yourself doing things you might have never thought were possible. You just have to find the motivation to take that first step.

So, here are a few of my favorite quotes to motivate and inspire you to travel solo, at least once in your life.

1. “Life is too short and the world is too wide. The sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

2. “Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” — Steven Aitchison

3. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” — Unknown

4. “There’s no right or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should try it at least once in their life.” — Susan Moore

5. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” —

6. “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer

7. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” — Storm Jameson

8. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Anne Radmacher

Quotes on Finding Strength Through Solo Travel

If you talk to just about any solo traveler, you’ll hear that traveling alone is an ideal time to heal from past traumas and reflect on the future. Best of all, you’re not on the world’s timeline. Traveling by yourself gives you all the time you need to think. You’ll likely find a strength in yourself you didn’t know was there, too!

If you are ever feeling uncertain about your decision to travel alone, take a look back at quotes about finding strength via solo travel.

9. “Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before that know they can do it.” — Amy Dochler

10. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” — Margret Shepard

11. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But, always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” — Pablo Holmberg 

12. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman

13. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diane von Furstenburg 

14. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.” — Unknown 

15. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write in your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.” — Shauna Niequist

16. “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.” — Jodi Hills 

Short Solo Travel Quotes

A few simple words can make a big difference. Really, one small sentence can change everything! Best of all, words can be inspiring. And sometimes, all a person needs to follow their dreams is a little inspiration.

This section is all about solo travel quotes that are short and sweet to the point. Get inspired!

17. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

18. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” — Paul Theroux 

19. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

20. “I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” — Elizabeth Lim 

21. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

22. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

23. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.” — Unknown

24. “You are never too old to start traveling solo.” — Susan Moore 

25. “ Go Solo. Go far .”  — Susan Moore

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Solo Female Travel Quotes

It takes a lot of courage to venture out into the world alone, let alone as a woman. While it can be daunting if you haven’t done it before, traveling solo as a female is one of the most freeing experiences ever! Doing what you set out to do will raise your self-esteem. Plus, you’ll realize you can do anything you set your mind to, regardless of what the rest of the world thinks. 

Let’s review some of our favorite quotes on the solo female traveler.

26. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” — Roman Payne

27. “They say that travel broadens the mind and opens a person up to different cultures and new experiences. This is certainly true, and if you’re a woman traveling alone, even more so. It takes inner strength coupled with a sense of adventure to travel solo, yet it can be one of life’s most rewarding experiences.” — Unknown

28. “ Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.” — Nico J. Genes 

29. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — Albert Einstein  

30. “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” — Virginia Woolf

31. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” — Norma Shearer 

32. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirts that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.” — Oprah Winfrey  

Quotes about the Solo Travel Journey & Experience

It goes without saying that traveling by yourself is different from taking a trip with others. For instance, you travel at your own pace, set your daily schedule, choose your activities, and are wholly responsible for yourself. You are also able to interact with locals and other travelers, rather than keep to your friends or family.

Read on for the best solo journey quotes. You’ll quickly learn how traveling solo shows you a lot about yourself, what you’re capable of, and changes your perspective on the world — and the people in it.

33. “Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta

34. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale

35. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson 

36. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone

37. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” — Suzy Strutner 

38. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau 

39. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” — Grace Lichtenstein

Funny Quotes About Traveling Alone

Traveling solo isn’t always easy, so we advise you to keep an open mind and expect the unexpected! Keep in mind, some of the best stories come from accidents. Without a doubt, there are bound to be one or two experiences that you’ll laugh at for years to come.

Keep scrolling to read some of the funniest quotes on solo travel.

40. “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” — Ray Bradbury

41. “The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said “Why it is life.” — Emily Hahn

42. “The impulse to travel alone is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” — Agnes Repplier

43. “It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” — David Hewson 

44. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” — Brenna Smith 

45. “ When you’re trying to save money for a house, but end up with a one-way ticket to some tropical island…” — Unknown 

Best Quotes & Captions on Traveling Alone for Instagram

Of course, you’re likely going to document your solo adventure on social media — or maybe in a journal just for you! Nonetheless, our friends, family, and sometimes followers we don’t even know, want to know what we’re up to and how they can also travel by themselves.

 Scroll down for some witty solo travel captions for Instagram.

46. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” — Unknown

47. “Travel far enough to meet yourself.” — Unknown

48. “The question isn’t who is going to let me it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand 

49. “To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself.” — Yes- Dag Hammarskjold

50. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.” — Unknown

51. “Travel makes one modest. YOu see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

52. “Just go.” — Unknown 

53. “If you are waiting for someone to go with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” — Unknown 

54. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Erica Jon

There you have it — our favorite quotes about traveling alone. Although solo travel can be daunting, it’s so worth it!

We truly hope these quotes — and this blog, for that matter — have inspired you to book a ticket for solo travel. It’s time to see what you can really accomplish out there in the world. I promise it’s more than you think.

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200 Travel Quotes To Feed Your Wanderlust

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself. Andrew McCarthy

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. Jack Kerouac

Getting lost is sometimes the best way to find yourself. Maxime Lagacé

Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J.R.R. Tolkien

Collect moments. Not things. Unknown

I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list. Susan Sontag

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. Jack Kerouac

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust swirling and dancing in eddies and whirlpools in infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. Paulo Coelho

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. Seneca

He who does not travel does not know the value of men. Moorish proverb

Who lives sees, but who travels sees more. Ibn Battuta

The best dreams happen when you’re awake. Cherie Gilderbloom

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. Lao Tzu

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The Best Travel Quotes

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. Albert Einstein

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark (Game of Thrones

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. Walt Whitman

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant. Victor Hugo

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. Jack Kerouac

People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell

To travel is to take a journey into yourself. Danny Kaye

A tourist sees what he came to see; a traveler sees what he sees. Thibaut

I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it. Alexander Sattler

Vagabonding is about time – our only real commodity – and how we choose to use it. Rolf Potts

The slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. Rolf Potts (Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World)

It is fatal to know too much at the outset: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot. Paul Theroux

Traveling hopefully into the unknown with a little information: dead reckoning is the way most people live their lives, and the phrase itself seems to sum up human existenec. Paul Theroux

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. Voltaire

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta

Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking. Antonio Machado

If you really want to learn about a country, work there. Charles Kuralt

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. Aldous Huxley

Travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves. Albert Camus

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference . Robert Frost

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they really are. Samuel Johnson

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Michael Crichton

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Traveling – it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land. Ibn Battuta

Travel… the best way to be lost and found at the same time. Brenna Smith

Part 2. Travel Quotes That Are…

The most famous (jack kerouac, marcel proust, helen keller, etc.).

Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves. Euripides

Be brave, take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before. Dalai Lama

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn

He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. Kurt Vonnegut

It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. Lao Tzu

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller

To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. Elizabeth Gilbert ( Eat, Pray, Love , Amazon book)

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? Stephen Hawking

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. George Harrison (The Beatles, Any Road)

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on. Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac

The world is a book and he who don’t travel only read one page. St. Augustine

I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happy. Ernest Hemingway

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream . Discover. Mark Twain

I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri Gagarin (First human to journey into outer space)

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. Christopher Columbus

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed. Marco Polo

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. Asian proverb

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. Mohammed

Short Travel Quotes

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To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen

All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Rolf Potts

Travel teaches toleration. Benjamin Disraeli

The journey is the destination. Dan Eldon

Everywhere you travel to, be fully there. Lailah Gifty Akita

Everybody has a unique path to travel. Lailah Gifty Akita

The road never ends… only our vision does. Amit Reddy

No matter where you go, there you are. Buckaroo Banzi

What is life, without a little risk? Sirius Black (Harry Potter)

Risk is the salt and sugar of life. Freya Stark

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Unknown

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. Unknown

It feels good to be lost in the right direction. Unknown

If not now, when? Unknown

Life is short and the world is wide. Unknown

Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure. Unknown

Work, travel, save, repeat. Unknown

Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world. Unknown

Don’t listen to what they say, go see. Chinese proverb

Adventure is worthwhile. Aristotle

Oh, the places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss

The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser

Make voyages! Attempt them. There’s nothing else. Tennessee Williams

Inspirational Travel Quotes

The goal is to die with memories not dreams. Unknown

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Anatole France

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho ( The Alchemist quotes )

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

Wanting to travel reflects a positive attitude. You want to see, to grow in experience, and presumably to become more whole as a human being. Ed Buryn

Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions. Rolf Potts

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? Caroline Myss

Part 1. A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea. Tim Cahill

Part 2. Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, we’re never going to do it. And we’ll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely. Tim Cahill

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you’re not in a hurry. Paul Theroux

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. Jack Kerouac

Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be. Steve Pavlina

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place. Rick Steves

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. Randy Komisar

Travel is a creative act – not simply loafing and inviting your soul, but feeding on the imagination, accounting for each fresh wonder, memorizing, and moving on… and the best landscapes, apparently dense or featureless, hold surprises if they are studied patiently, in the kind of discomfort one can savor afterward. Paul Theroux

Related : The 10 Lessons to Learn From Traveling (huffpost.com)

We travel initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspaper will accommodate. Pico Iyer

Part 1. What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. Albert Camus

Part 2. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depths of our being. Albert Camus

Leaving home is a kind of forgiveness, and when you get among strangers, you’re amazed at how decent they seem. Nobody smirks at you or gossips about you, nobody resents your successes or relishes your defeats. You get to start over, a sort of redemption. Garrison Keilor

Part 1. Let’s not travel to tick things off lists, or collect half-hearted semi-treasures to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. Victoria Erickson

Part 2. Rather, we’ll travel to find grounds and rooftops and tiny hidden parks, where we’ll sit and dismiss the passing time, spun in the city’s web, ‘til we’ve surrendered, content to be spent and consumed. Victoria Erickson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone. Tawny Lara

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. John Steinbeck

Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul. Jaime Lyn

Funny And Surprising Travel Quotes

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. Bruce Chatwin

Two great talkers will not travel far together. Spanish proverb

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury

I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way. Carl Sagan

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. Bruce Chatwin

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is about to happen. Winnie The Pooh

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Paul Theroux

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. Emile Ganest

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw

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

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James Michener

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. Oscar Wilde

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted my routine. Caskie Stinnett

Jet lag is for amateurs. Dick Clark

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller

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 Kerouac

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. Rachel Wolchin

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. Jack Kerouac

The best tourist is one without a camera. Kamand Kojouri

Let your memory be your travel bag. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Deep Travel Sayings

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson Click to tweet

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things. Kahlil Gibran

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and thinks of home. Carl Burns

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you’re going to see just about all that you can handle. Paul Auster

This is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. Rosita Forbes

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. Paulo Coelho

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. Stephen Covey

As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you . Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. Anthony Bourdin

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

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. Unknown

Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself. Unknown

When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Rumi

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. Katherine Mansfield

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine

The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life; the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Phil Cousineau

My city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world. Marcus Aurelius

Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain

Remember at all times that while you are seeing the world, the world will see you. Benjamin Rush

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. Dutch proverb

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. Henry David Thoreau

Wise Travel Sayings

Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. Marty Rubin

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. Sandra Lake

Travelling is discovering. Discovering is learning. Learning is living. Maxime Lagacé

It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville

To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself. Marty Rubin

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. Lin Yutang

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question. Harun Yahya

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Sinclair Lewis

Travel’s greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. William Hazlitt

The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home. Rolf Potts

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. Rolf Potts

Travel can be a kind of monasticism on the move: on the road, we often live more simple, with no more possessions than we can carry, and surrendering ourselves to chance. This is what Camus meant he said that “what gives value to travel is fear” – disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behing which we hide. Pico Iyer

Related : 20 Unforgettable Lessons You Can Learn From Traveling The World (lifehack.org)

Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism. Phil Cousineau

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey. Pat Conroy

It’s not where you are today that counts. It’s where you are headed. Arthur F. Lenehan

Ownership of most things is overrated. Ownership of worldly experience is not. Dave Levant

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. Henry Rollins

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. Freya Stark

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

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time , to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. Bill Bryson

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. Anatole France

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Thomas Fuller

Wherever you go, go with all your heart! Confucius

Part 3. Conclusion

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd

Further Readings

• Topic: Education and Culture
• 100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing
• 100 Learning Quotes To Inspire You To Learn (Forever)
• 100 Knowledge Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective
• 100 Reading Quotes Every Book Lover Can Relate To
• 100 Curiosity Quotes To Increase Your Desire To Learn
• 100 Music Quotes From The Best Musicians In The World
• 17 Easy Steps for Planning Your Next Trip (nomadicmatt.com)

Do you travel often? What’s your favorite travel quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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30 Inspirational Travel Quotes That Will Make You Crave Adventure

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Travel is an exciting and enriching experience, full of new sights and adventures.

And inspirational travel quotes can be a great way to motivate yourself to get out there and explore.

Here are 30 of our favorite quotes about travel. We hope they inspire you to set out on your next adventure!

30 Inspirational Quotes for Traveling

The following quotes on travel are by historical figures. They reflect the thrill of adventure and discovery that makes travel a unique and unforgettable experience.

1.  "Adventure is worthwhile in itself." - Amelia Earhart 

2.  "Take only memories, leave only footprints." - Chief Seattle

3.  "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

4.  "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

5.  "The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands." - Sir Richard Burton 

6.  "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine

7.  "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African proverb

8.  "Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." - Ibn Battuta

9.  "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." - Jawaharlal Nehru 

10.  "Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." - Mohammed

The next ten inspirational travel quotes are by novelists, essayists, and other influential writers. They highlight how travel can challenge our assumptions and open our eyes to new perspectives.

11.  "Oh, the places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss

12.  "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R Tolkien 

13.  "If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal." - Paulo Coelho 

14.  "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself." - Walt Whitman 

15.  "People don’t take trips, trips take people." - John Steinbeck

16.  "I haven’t been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag

17.  "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." - Robert Louis Stevenson

18.  "To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live." - Hans Christian Andersen

19.  "Twenty 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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

20.  "There is a world elsewhere." - Shakespeare

Our last ten inspirational quotes for traveling are by more contemporary figures. They capture the sense of wonder and possibility that travel can awaken.

21.  "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." - Ursula K. Le Guin

22.  "The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take a train to Mecca." - Anthony Bourdain

23.  "The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends." - Shirley MacLaine

24.  "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all." - Dan Rather

25.  "To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted." - Bill Bryson

26.  "The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown." - Paul Theroux

27.  "To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice." - Elizabeth Gilbert

28.  "You travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there." - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

29.  "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

30.  "Travel far enough, you meet yourself." - David Mitchell

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101 of the Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Amazing Adventures

I’ve put together 101 of the best travel quotes as a reminder, motivation, and remembrance for the reasons why we travel.

I’m not just talking about the sightseeing and beach vacations. Travel is about the journey as much as the beautiful destination.

We learn about the world by experiencing new cultures and ways of living, in turn learning about ourselves.

I’ve been traveling the world for a few years – Will has been traveling for over 9 years – and the rest of the Broke Backpacker crew has put quite a dent in their passports too. I think these awesome quotes about traveling highlight some of the magnificent journeys and lessons we’ve experienced along the way.

Why? Because Travel quotes provide inspiration and capture truths about travel, adventure, and life.

Just like travel, words have the power to open our minds to completely new perspectives, which is why I hope this collection of quotes about travel and powerful words will inspire you to get out there and experience some adventurous travel yourself.

101 Best Travel Quotes

Some last words….

From funny travel quotes to inspiring words from legends past and present, here are the 101 best:

1. Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra, The Cultureur

2. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

This is one of my favorite quotes about traveling. A lot of people think that one travels to escape life, or that long-term travelers are running away from reality. The way I see it – sure – maybe vacations are a quick escape from the real world, but traveling is a way to embrace life’s grandest adventures. Traveling is a way for life not to escape us.

3. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

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4. “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” – Marty Rubin

5. “to live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” – t.l rese.

6. “Travel often; Getting lost will help you find yourself.” – Holstee Manifesto

Some of my best travel experiences were not necessarily butterflies and rainbows. Sometimes they were uncomfortable and painful. Sometimes I have quite literally gotten lost, but in the end, these experiences have helped me find myself.

I think that is what traveling is often about: finding – or at least rediscovering – aspects of yourself.

7. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

8. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george a. moore, 9. “sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” –   drake.

This is one of the most important travel quotes. Doesn’t matter how long you’re traveling for, you’ll see new cultures, open your mind and change your way of thinking – even if it’s just a little bit. Traveling shows us sides of the world but also about yourself that you’ve never seen before. Having a different view on things helped a lot of people when it comes to making hard decisions.

10. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey

11. Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” –  Cesare Pavese

I love this traveling the world quote from Cesare Pavese. Having been on the road for the last few years, he nailed my experience spot on. Nothing is certain – except air, sleep, the sea, the sky – but that is what traveling is about: embracing the unknown and trusting the process. The way I see it, the only thing for certain is what is happening in the now.

12. “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

13. “culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – thomas wolfe, 14. “traveling — it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – ibn battuta.

This is one of the most beautiful travel quotes. Meeting so many new people, making new friends and even finding a second family, has to be one of the best aspects of traveling. Having traveled quite a bit, I can say that having multiple homes is definitely an amazing feeling, although it can also create some distance between you and your original home.

15. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.” – Malcolm Bradbury

16. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”- Ibn Battuta

Probably one of the best travel quotes I’ve heard – the play on words, the sincerity, and the capture of what it means to travel. Traveling will undoubtedly leave you speechless, surprised, and lost for words, but those words will be found, and you will have epic stories to tell.

18. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

19. “every journey is personal. every journey is spiritual. you can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. you can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – diana ambarsari, 20. “the perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. there is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – rosita forbes, 21. “travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – ella maillart.

22. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” –  Roy M. Goodman

I think this is one of my favorite quotes about travel. Having been to 30 or so countries, and plenty of destinations among them, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that happiness does   not come from beautiful destinations any more than the concept that money can buy happiness…

It’s easy to assume that if money can’t buy happiness, surely experiences can, but you can be in the most beautiful place on earth having some crazy experience, and not be happy. We tend to always be in search of the next big thing – the most beautiful beach or bigger mountain – without realizing that it is the journey there that matters, not the destination.

Happiness is hard to define of course, but I think happiness lies in your outlook and present state of mind. To be happy is to be in the present moment, no matter what you own or where you are.

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23. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” – Elizabeth Benedict

24. “we must go beyond 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, 25. “though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – ralph waldo emerson.

Walking on the globe with your head down will never open up all views and beautiful things to see. In order to enjoy traveling, you have to keep your mind and heart open, accept different cultures and traditions and simply try to adapt. Keep a positive mindset and you’ll see the beauty of the world.

26. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” – Sorrab Singha

27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – Unknown

Both of these travel quotes (#26 and #27) encapsulate that sometimes we travel to learn more about ourselves. A large aspect of traveling is, of course, visiting places, but sometimes you end up visiting parts of yourself too.

28. “Travelling expands the mind rarely.” – Hans Christian Andersen

29. “traveling outgrows its motives. it soon proves sufficient in itself. you think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – nicolas bouvier, 30. it is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – ursula k. le guin, 31. “the best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” – rick ridgeway.

32. “You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” –   Gayle Forman

This is one of my favorite travel quotes! It reminds me of something I read in the book  Shantaram , about an ex-convict on the run and his adventures in India. In the book, he was given similar advice: to surrender to India and accept his experience for what it was.

You have to surrender to the chaos and enjoy/endure the experiences as they come. While this is applicable to many aspects of life, it is definitely applicable to travel. You can’t try to force itineraries and plans or work hard to fulfill some high expectations in your mind. Doing so will only tire and disappoint you.

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33. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”  – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

34. “travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.” – janna graber, 35. “life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” –   oliver goldsmith, 36. “focus on the journey, not the destination. joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – greg anderson.

37. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

I can relate to this quote about travel quite well actually. The longer and more that I travel, the more I find myself self-analyzing and observing my own thought and emotional processes.

Traveling has a funny way of throwing you out into the world with the intention of discovering more about everything around you, only to realize you will discover far more about yourself. It is why traveling can be the most rewarding form of introspection.

38. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

39. “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, 40. “travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – seneca, 41. “a man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – wilfred peterson.

42. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway

I can relate to these words quite a bit as I try to find the balance between preparing and planning for the future, reaching goals, and just enjoying the ride and staying present in the moment.

Having goals and an endpoint in sight is good; however, I don’t think it will be as satisfying if you don’t enjoy the moments that take you there. If you only focus on the destination you’ll miss everything that matters – the journey along the way.

43. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber

44. “life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” – debasish mridha, 45. “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”- izaak walton.

Whether it’s long, annoying bus trips, a shabby hostel or simply somewhere you don’t necessarily feel comfortable, it’s always better to have great company by your side. Going through the rough times together makes the whole experience more endurable.

46. “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

47. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

I love this quote about traveling. With age, comes wisdom. Wisdom isn’t something you can read about, it is something you learn through experience. The same goes for travel. You can read and hear about places and people that are different than you, but sometimes it takes experiencing those places and meeting those people for yourself to truly understand them.

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48. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

49. “travel opens your mind as few other things do. it is its own form of hypnotism, and i am forever under its spell.” – libya bray, 50. “half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – ray bradbury, 51. “travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – francis bacon.

52. “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

Anthony Bourdain will always be remembered for his adventurous spirit and ability to share some of the most remote and fascinating corners of this planet with the rest of the world. His words ring true. Travel is not pretty, and it’s definitely not always comfortable.

Sometimes you’ll deal with awful buses and missed flights, sleep in strange places, be confronted with challenging and stressful situations, or encounter experiences that break your heart. But that’s okay because the journey will make you stronger, and ultimately make you a better person.

53. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

54. “it is always 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 about traveling.” – gustave flaubert, 55. “all travel has its advantages. if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – samuel johnson, 56. “uncertainty and anticipation are the joys of travel.” –  ken hundert.

57. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” –  Dalai Lama

58. “investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – matthew karsten.

Rather than investing in the latest technology, do yourself the favor and take yourself on a little trip. Clear your mind, learn new things and experience different cultures and people. You won’t regret it!

59. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” – Margot Fonteyn

60. “certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – miriam beard, 61. “culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.” – karl kraus.

62. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

63. “travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – sheda savage.

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64. “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes

65. “if you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – cesare pavese, 66. “of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – richard francis burton.

67. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer

68. “when you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. people don’t have your past to hold against you. no yesterdays on the road.” – william least heat moon, 69. “i soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – lillian smith, 70. “for my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” – robert louis stevenson, 71. “conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. i’m not so sure. travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to cleveland and is never heard from again.” – eric weiner.

72.  “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

73. “travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. that is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – pico iyer, 74. “to my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – bill bryson, 75. “perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – maya angelou, 76. “travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – freya stark.

77. “The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” – Freya Stark

78. “you will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.” – freya stark, 79. “when you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. it is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – clifton fadiman.

This another one of the most important travel quotes, especially in nowadays time. When traveling, always keep your mind open, be respectful towards other people and try new things. Just because your believes, expectations and values work for you, doesn’t mean that it works for others too. Watch, experience and keep the critical thoughts to yourself if you don’t want to make enemies in a different country.

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80. “Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” – Claire Fontaine

81. “travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” – paul sheehan.

82. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

83. “we travel because we need to because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. when we get home, home is still the same. but something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” – jonah lehrer, 84. “travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet’s blurred reality.” – andrew solomon, 85. “ i travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – nyssa p. chopra, the cultureur, 86. “travel is the best teacher. the only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.” – c. joybell c..

87. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

88. he who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – moorish proverb, 89. “travel is like an endless university. you never stop learning.” – harvey lloyd.

Whether it’s about a new recipe, a new language or as simple as the fancy toilets in Japan, there’s ALWAYS something new and exciting for you to learn. That is the beauty of travel, just make sure you keep your mind open!

90. “ The symbol of joy to-day is travel. There is a wanderlust that infects the blood.” – Rollin A. Sawyer

91. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

92. “nothing develops intelligence like travel.” –  emile zola, 93. “the value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – rolf potts, 94. “there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” – david mitchell.

95. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Forman

96. “no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – lin yutang, 97. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george moore, 98. “all the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – paul fussell.

99. “Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.” – Nancy Petralia

100. “travel molds a man, people mold his wisdom and experiences mold his life” – sujit lalwani, 101. “travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. one looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. good travelers are heartless.” – elias canetti.

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Hopefully, these adventure-inspiring quotes have given you some inspiration to explore the world we live in! Traveling has changed my life and given me some pretty irreplaceable life experience.

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Solo Travel Quotes: 30 Most Inspirational Quotes About Traveling Alone

Looking for inspiration to travel solo? I have put together some of the best quotes about traveling alone to inspire you to take that solo trip you have always wanted to take.

Solo Travel Quotes

I hope you enjoy these inspiring solo travel quotes .

1. “ I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. ” – Storm Jameson

2. ” a person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. he must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ” — katharine butler hathaway, 3. “ travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. ”   – buddha, 4. “ travel far enough, you meet yourself. ” – david mitchell, 5. “ the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. ” – henry david thoreau, 6. “ the inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude. ” – paul theroux, 7. “ to awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. you are surrounded by adventure. you have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown. ” – freya stark, 8. “ i wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. ” – daphne du maurier, 9. “ to travel is to take a journey into yourself. ” – danny kaye, 10. “ never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ” – ernest hemingway, 11. “ he travels the fastest who travels alone. ” – rudyard kipling, 12. “ the first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why i travel alone. ” – andrew o’hagan, 13. “ not i, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. you must travel it by yourself. ” – walt whitman, 14. “ there are some places in life where you can only go alone. embrace the beauty of your solo journey. ” – mandy hale, 15. “ when a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. ” – diane von furstenberg, 16. “ i think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. ” – thomas jefferson, 17. “ when the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. ” – liberty hyde bailey, 18. “ adventure can be an end in itself. self-discovery is the secret ingredient… ” – grace lichtenstein, 19. “ solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations. ” – suzy strutner, 20. “ don’t be scared to walk alone, don’t be scared to like it. ” – john mayer, 21. “ life begins at the end of your comfort zone. ” – neale donald walsch, 22. “ some journeys can only be traveled alone. ” – ken poirot, 23. “ the best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself. ” – angela vallely, 24. “ there are some places in life where you can only go alone. embrace the beauty of your solo journey. ” – mandy hale, 25. “ loneliness adds beauty to life. it puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” ”– henry rollins, 26. “ you are the one that possesses the keys to your being. you carry the passport to your own happiness. ” – diane von furstenberg, 27. “ traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime. ” – jacqueline boone, 28. “ if you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime. ”, 29. “ go solo, go far. ”, 30. “ if you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ” – maxwell maltz.

Do you find quotes about traveling alone inspiring? What do you think are the best solo travel quotes?

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47 Finding Yourself Quotes to Discover Who You Are

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We’re all intrigued by other people’s lives. Whether it’s watching folk walk past as we sit in the local café, or searching through social media to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, curiosity comes to us all.

It’s human nature. People are fascinating to watch. And by taking an interest in their lives, we might feel in some way connected to them.

But the one person we often fail to take enough interest in is ourselves. And within these finding yourself quotes, we’re going to explore the importance of discovering who you are.

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Why Should You Put More Energy Into Finding Yourself?

Have you ever seen a baby hold their hands up with an expression of utter amazement? If we could translate the baby babble, they’d probably be saying ‘How did those things get there?’ and ‘What do they do?’

Self-discovery starts at a very young age. And as babies grow into toddlers and even young children, the intrigue only heightens.

They start to climb, and balance, usually on things they shouldn’t be. Taste a variety of foods with mixed reactions. And form attachments to their favorite toys.

But as we grow up, the time spent finding out about ourselves lessens. The importance of trying new things, often disregarded. And we fall into the slum of ground hog day.

The journey of self-discovery shouldn’t stop once we can walk steadily on our feet. It’s not like we know everything about ourselves by the age of 5.

Our needs change. Our interests develop. And yet, we’d rather chase celebrity scandals than put the energy into finding ourselves.

You should be the most important person in your world. And finding yourself, no matter where your life has taken you so far, should be at the heart of your priorities.

Only then, can you discover what makes you truly happy; what drives you to better things, and better times. And gives you a sense of being, rather than just existing.

Now, let’s jump right in with these finding yourself quotes.

• “When you know yourself you are empowered. When you accept yourself you are invincible.”– Tina Lifford
• “To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates
• “I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.” – Ringo Starr
• “At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”– Lao Tzu
• “Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right. – Grace Chatto

Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right. – Grace Chatto

• “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” – Richard Wright
• “When you make the finding yourself – even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light – you'll never forget it.” – Carl Sagan
• “You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light.” – Rumi
• “Be who you are, and find yourself so you can be your own person and enjoy life with no regret.” – Bonnie Zackson Koury
• “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.” – Thomas Browne

• “The whole journey of being a wrestler is also a journey of finding yourself and who you are. If it feels natural to you, it's natural to me because I'm just being myself every time I'm out there.” – Elias
• “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
• “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” – Lao Tzu
• “The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself, you will always be someone else. Become yourself.” – Myles Munroe
• “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare
• “If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.” – Lykke Li
• “It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
• “I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me.” – Carrie Bradshaw
• “It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.” – Jason Behr
• “Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish, it makes you indestructible.” – Unknown

Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish, it makes you indestructible.” – Unknown

• “Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
• “All this time I was finding myself, And I didn’t know I was lost.” – Avicci
• “As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is authenticity.” – Charlie Chaplin
• “Finding yourself can affect how you think about your appearance.” – Edith Bowman
• “We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.” – Kristin Martz
• “When you discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy; care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen
• “Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.” – Mooji
• “And into the forest, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir
• “When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.” – Roy Conli
• “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find yourself.” – Mandy Hale

• “You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.” – Mariah Carey
• “Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that ‘Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.” – Raven Goodwin
• “Discovering who you are today is the first step to being who you will be tomorrow.” – Mustapha Lanre Idreez
• “We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.” – Unknown
• “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
• “Finding yourself is an enlightening experience. You become self-sufficient and do things for others without expectations of something in return. You are no longer needy and become utterly grateful for all the things people have done for you in the past.” – James Seaton

Finding yourself is an enlightening experience. You become self-sufficient and do things for others without expectations of something in return. You are no longer needy and become utterly grateful for all the things people have done for you in the past.” – James Seaton

• “You've got to find yourself first. Everything else will follow.” – Charles de Lint
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
• “Don’t worry about finding your soulmate. Find yourself.” – Jason Evert
• “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” – Maya Angelou
• “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Get lost in nature, and you will find yourself.” – Unknown

• “You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.” – Rumi
• “We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” – Mae West
• “The only journey worthwhile is finding yourself.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” – Unknown

Final Thoughts on Finding Yourself Quotes

Self-discovery is a journey we should all take. And yet, so few of us do. Commitments to the lives we already lead take president. And our needs, fall behind.

It’s time to start seeing ‘You’ as a priority. To find yourself, whether that’s by taking a 6-month trek around the world, or allowing yourself an hour in the evening to just sit, without interruption.

Only then will you discover a true happiness from within. The happiness you deserve.

For more inspirational quotes, be sure to check out these blog posts:

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Finally, if you want to use these quotes to make a lasting change to your life, then check out and recite these 57 affirmations for success .

Rebel Jones has been writing from a young age. She first used poetry to organise words – the rhythm and flow brought peace to her chaos. But as she developed (both as a person and as a writer), she embraced her offbeat thought process and found her own style and tone. Writing is definitely her happy place and one that she’s happy to share with the world.

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35 Alice in Wonderland Quotes That Will Transport You Through the Looking Glass

Posted: November 4, 2023 | Last updated: November 4, 2023

Curiouser and curiouser Alice in Wonderland quotes

The timeless classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland offers bookworms of every age a whimsical escape from the ordinary. Lewis Carroll led readers headfirst into the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland, a place where logic takes a backseat and the laws of reality are merely suggestions. Whether you're a seasoned wanderer of Wonderland or a curious newcomer, you'll find something undeniably magical within the pages of this story. It's why Alice in Wonderland quotes are so enduring.

Book quotes are one of the ways I love to quickly re-immerse myself in the whimsy of my favorite books . To give you a quick Alice fix, I've collected dozens of Alice in Wonderland quotes from the original book and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass . I've also thrown in some quotes from the film adaptations, which are as wonderfully weird as their source material. Grab your teacup, put on your most eccentric hat and prepare for a journey as we explore the profound and peculiar words of Carroll's masterpiece.

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Trippy Alice in Wonderland quotes

1. "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." — The White Queen in Through the Looking-Glass

2. "Off with their heads!" — The Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

3. "I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'" — Alice in Through the Looking-Glass

4. "'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—of cabbages and kings." — Tweedledee in Through the Looking-Glass

5. "The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!" — The White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

6. "You know you say things are 'much of a muchness'—did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?" — The Dormouse in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

7. "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" — Alice in Disney's Alice in Wonderland

8. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'" — Tweedledee in Through the Looking-Glass

9. "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." — The White Queen in Through the Looking-Glass

10. "'Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; 'but it sounds uncommon nonsense.'" — The Mock Turtle in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland is known for some of the funniest quotes , and we have Carroll's creative language to thank for that. He was a master at playing with form, resulting in whimsical sentences that might seem like gibberish at first glance yet frequently reveal their own kind of sense.

Funny Alice in Wonderland quotes

11. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." — The Cheshire Cat  in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

12. "'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" — The King  in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

13. "'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'" — The Gryphon  in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

14. "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut." — The Cheshire Cat in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland

15. "You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself." — The Cheshire Cat in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland

16. "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does." — The Duchess  in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

17. "Now, here , you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" — The Red Queen in Through the Looking-Glass

The randomness and humor found in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass continue to make these beloved children's books charming even over a century later, and these comical quotes are a prime example of that enduring appeal.

Mad Hatter quotes

18. "'Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, 'I don't think—' 'Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter." — The Mad Hatter and Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

19. "'If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, 'you wouldn't talk about wasting it . It's him .'" — The Mad Hatter and Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

20. "Have I gone mad?" — The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

21. "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" — The Mad Hatter in  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

22. "You're not the same as you were before. You were much more, muchier. You've lost your muchness." — The Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

The Hatter is known for saying provocative things that could be perceived as offensive—but that is also what makes him a fan favorite. And while all the Alice in Wonderland quotes above don't necessarily come from the book, the Hatter's memorable movie quotes are just as punchy.

Alice quotes

23. "Curiouser and curiouser!" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

24. "I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much!" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

25. "'I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.'" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

26. "When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

27. "And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

28. "It would be so nice if something made sense for a change." — Alice in Disney's Alice in Wonderland

29. "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

30. "'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice is endlessly curious, extremely trusting and a very caring young woman. Just how famous are her famous lines? Both her book and Disney movie quotes can be found printed on T-shirts, mugs and wall posters around the world.

Inspirational quotes from Alice in Wonderland

31. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." — The Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

32. "But that's just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it." — Alice in Disney's Alice’s in Wonderland

33. "'I can't explain myself , I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see.'" — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

34. "How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another." — Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

35. "Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!" — The Duchess in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

While there are many trippy Alice and Wonderland quotes, there are also plenty of inspirational quotes that feel warm-hearted and tender. Carroll's world-building was certainly out of this world—he had a way of taking quirky characters and an outlandish plot, and making it deeply relatable to the human experience.

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