The Best Quotes About Travel
I love quotes about travel. I’ve put together lists of my favorite quotes about Paris and my favorite quotes about New York. As you can see I’m a big fan of quotes! 🙂
Here are some of the best quotes about travel in general and what it means to be a traveler:
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
“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
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
“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
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
“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
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
“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
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
“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
“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Which of these quotes about travel is your favorite?