40 Inspirational Travel Quotes

  1. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” ― Susan Heller
  2. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ― Hilaire Belloc
  3. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ― Paul Theroux
  4. “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 Anderson
  5. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
  6. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ― St. Augustine
  7. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” ― Seneca
  8. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” ― Moslih Eddin Saadi
  9. “Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.” ― Ray Bradbury
  10. “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
  11. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” ― Anderson Cooper
  12. “Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.” ― Winna Efendi, The Journeys
  13. “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
  14. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
  15. “NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” ― Walt Whitman
  16. “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, The Fellowship of the Ring
  17. “My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.” ― Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty
  18. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” ― Cesare Pavese
  19. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
  20. “I read; I travel; I become.” ― Derek Walcott
  21. “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” ― Shane Koyczan
  22. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust
  23. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” ― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
  24. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ernest Hemingway
  25. “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
  26. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert
  27. “A good traveler leaves no track.” – Lao Tzu
  28. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
  29. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― Henry Miller
  30. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
  31. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
  32. “I love to travel, But hate to arrive.” ― Albert Einstein
  33. “Every hundred feet the world changes.” ― Roberto Bolaño
  34. “Paris is always a good idea.” ― Audrey Hepburn
  35. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” ― Anonymous
  36. “I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.” ― Justina Chen
  37. “Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.” ― Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies
  38. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” ― Penelope Riley, Travel Absurdities
  39. “Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.” ― Alex Garland, The Beach
  40. “Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.” ― Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place Featured photo credit: Raffaele Camardella via flickr.com