1. “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
2. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc
3. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong
4. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho
5. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin
6. “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
7. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”
8. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
9. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
10. “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
11. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
12. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi
13. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction” – Anonymous
14. “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
15. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell
16. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
17. “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
18. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
19. “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
20. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
21. “Never go too long without watching a sunset.” – Atticus
22. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.” – Anonymous
23. “If you want to go somewhere you like but no one else wants to, go by yourself. You’ll meet people with similar interests as you.” – Anonymous
24. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.” – Anonymous
25. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
26. “Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
27. “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
28. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins
29. “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
30. “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer
31. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin
32. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
33. “We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
34. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
35. “But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson
36. “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.” – Benjamin Disraeli
37. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” – Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
38. “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe.” – Jim Rohn
39. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
40. “Add life to your days, not days to your life.” – Anonymous
41. “The potential for adventure makes life worth living.” – Vicki Garside
42. “The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one’s self a fool.” – William Least-Heat Moon
43. “No place, in theory, is boring of itself. Boredom lies only with the traveler’s limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough.” – William Least-Heat Moon
44. “Nothing breaks down suspicion about a stranger better than curiosity.” – William Least-Heat Moon
45. “I’m all through playing the American. Now, I’m going to live a good, quiet life.” – Jack Kerouac
46. “…no matter where I live, my trunk’s always sticking out from under the bed. I’m ready to leave or get thrown out.” – Jack Kerouac
47. “Can’t describe what my life is like when she asks about it.” – Drake
48. “I realized that if I really intended to do something spectacular with my life I was going to have to put in the legwork myself and stop expecting people to pitch up and do it for me.” – Jess de Boer
49. “I will always remember thinking that this is a moment we will never forget.” – Anonymous street art, Lyon, France
50. “Everybody’s just a stranger but that’s the danger in going my own way.” – John Mayer
51. “I know I’m gonna be alone, I know I’m out on my own. I just gotta hit the road, I just gotta know the road.” – Drake
52. “Of all things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.” – Bill Bryson
53. “All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.” – Jack Kerouac
54. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain’t no where else it can go – right?” – Jack Kerouac
55. “The whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.” – Jack Kerouac
56. “I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks.” – Jack Kerouac
57. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” – Jack Kerouac
58. “Those at the end of their journeys embraced ours.” – Franz Wisner
59. “He also had the confidence and experience of the road.” – Franz Wisner
60. “They say your life doesn’t matter until you do something for someone else that they can never repay you for.” – Lily Dubuc
61. “The edge of nowhere is such a beautiful place.” – The Wombats
62. “We’ll never be as young as we are now.” – Saint Raymond
63. “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinions.” – Jack Kerouac
64. “In Epicurean philosophy, the highest goal in life is pleasure.” FUN FACT
65. “You’re never going to be here long enough. . .” – Anonymous
66. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
67. “You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.” – Ernest Hemingway
68. “But over the years, I’ve learned to fall in love with the chaos.” – Chris Oldfield
69. “Just like they do in the Mediterranean, spin you around me again and again.” – Ed Sheeran
70. “Some travel is more of a nuisance than a hardship, but travel is always a mental challenge, and even at its most difficult, travel can be an enlightenment.” – Paul Theroux
71. “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.” – Paul Theroux
72. “It is almost axiomatic that as soon as a place gets a reputation for being paradise it goes to hell.” – Paul Theroux
73. “When strangers ask me where I was going I often replied, ‘Nowhere.’ Vagueness can become habit, and travel a form of idleness.” – Paul Theroux
74. “Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.” – Paul Theroux
75. “In the best travel, disconnection is a necessity. Concentrate on where you are; do no back-home business; take no assignments; remain incommunicado; be scarce. It is a good thing that people don’t know where you are or how to find you. Keep in mind the country you are in. That’s the theory.” – Paul Theroux
75 Travel Quotes for Inspiration
I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.
Melody Truong
Melody Truong
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