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?
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About Denise Cruz
Denise is a marketing executive who escaped corporate to travel the world… twice. A Brazilian native living in the U.S., she’s lived in 4 countries and visited 35+ others. After side-hustling her way to financial independence, she curates solo destination guides, slow travel tips, and travel blogging advice on Wander Her Way. When she’s not on the road, you can find her in Miami with her dog Finnegan.