These are some of the best travel quotes of all time and my favorite travel quotes to inspire me whenever I’m wander-lusting. Enjoy!
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi
“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.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays
“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, Night Train to Lisbon
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
“To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller
“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
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
― James A. Michener
“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
“Self-consciousness kills communication.”
― Rick Steves
“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? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
I hope these travel quotes have inspired you and you go off and have an amazing experience in the world. This list are my best travel quotes of all time and my favorite travel quotes what are some of your? Comment below.
