43 Inspiring Road Journey Quotes

Embarking on a road journey is more than just a means of reaching a destination; it's an opportunity to explore, reflect, and connect with the world around us. Each twist and turn of the road can inspire a sense of freedom and adventure like no other. Whether you're cruising along coastal highways or navigating winding mountain paths, the open road beckons with endless possibilities. To help fuel your wanderlust and enhance your travel experience, we've curated a collection of 43 inspiring quotes that capture the essence of road journeys. These words of wisdom and reflection will accompany you on your travels, providing both motivation and contemplation as you take in the vast horizons ahead.

1. “If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.” - David Livingstone

2. “The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.” - Wendell Berry

3. “How little we understandof the gifts we have been givenor the shape of the pathwe took to reach our salvation.” - Harley King

4. “The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.” - Daphne duMaurier

5. “It was a fossilized path: the will which had cut this gash out of these solitary places so that the blood and sap would flow there was long since dead - and dead too were the circumstances which had guided this will. A whitish and indurated scar remained, gradually gnawed away by the earth like a flesh that heals itself, yet its direction was still vaguely cut into the horizon; a language and crepuscular sign rather than a way forward - a worn-out lifeline which still vegetated through the fallow land as it does on the palm of a hand. It was so old that, since it had been constructed, the very configuration of the land must have changed imperceptibly.” - Julien Gracq

6. “Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field...” - Julien Gracq

7. “Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild boar could be seen, trotting with steady stride along the edge of the road with her sow and a whole procession of young in tow. And then one's heart beat faster upon advancing a little into the subtle light: one might have said that the path had suddenly become wild, thick with grass, its dark paving-slabs engulfed by nettles, blackthorn and sloe, so that it mingled up time past rather than crossing country-side, and perhaps it was going to issue forth, in the chiaroscuro of thicket smelling of moistened down and fresh grass, into one of those glades where animals spoke to men.” - Julien Gracq

8. “Let us search the old highways.” - H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

9. “There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.” - Wendell Berry

10. “Any highway . . . they all take you to the same place, don't they?” - Jodi Picoult

11. “Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.” - Vera Nazarian

12. “There's more to getting to where you're going then just knowing there's a road.” - Joan Lowery Nixon

13. “The road to success is always under construction.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “You came up this gut-wrenching road yesterday by yourself?" Cassie exclaimed. "You deserve a good cuffing just for driving this goat path on your own.""It's not so bad once you get used to dodging the ruts.""You've got some nerve calling these canyons ruts.""Cassandra Hudson, where is your sense of adventure?""I dropped it off going over that last rut-crossing when only two wheels were on the ground.""Those ones are a bit exhilarating, aren't they?" Alexandra shot Cassie a quick look and wink. "Keep your eyes on the road!""What road?""Exactly!” - H.H. Laura

15. “The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.” - Wendell Berry

16. “Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” - Criss Jami

17. “Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.” - J.D. Stroube

18. “If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” - Vera Nazarian

19. “I wouldn't know where to start.""He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?""Harry Emerson Fosdick...” - Kami Garcia

20. “I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.” - Nema Al-Araby

21. “Could he have been the fork in the road American never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong way from? Suppose the Slothropite heresy had had the time to consolidate and prosper? Might there have been fewer crimes in the name of Jesus, and more mercy in the name of Judas Iscariot? It seems to Tyrone Slothrop that there might be a route back--maybe that anarchist he met in Zurich was right, maybe for a little while all the fences are down, one road as good as another, the whole space of the Zone cleared...” - Thomas Pynchon

22. “You're a stubborn, ill-trained horse." she saidThe horse snorted and walked towards the North Road of his own volition. "Hey!" Karigan pulled back on the reins. "Whoa. Who do you think is in charge here?” - Kristen Britain

23. “That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations” - Margaret Landon

24. “Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around, pay when you get there; he made his escape at the first exit he saw, for fiftyfive cents, and now he was on the old road buzzing the staid turnpike by turns over and under, teasing it crazy.” - Douglas Woolf

25. “It is less easy to find people in the woods and fields.And if you are supposed to be on the road,there is some chance that you will be looked for on the road and not off it."-Frodo Baggins” - J.R.R. Tolkien

26. “When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

27. “The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...” - Glenda Millard

28. “When you think that the road has ended, you must know that it is your ability to go beyond has ended, not the road!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

29. “I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.” - J.A. Redmerski

30. “When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.” - Dejan Stojanovic

31. “The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

32. “Dead-end roads don't mean you've come to your end, just means you need to take a different detour.” - Anthony Liccione

33. “Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.” - Lana Del Rey

34. “The road makes a noise all its own. It's a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent...” - Gregory Galloway

35. “I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.” - Belinda Jeffrey

36. “Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

37. “You need new roads to discover new places!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

38. “There's a difference between driving and texting. When your driving your eyes have to be open and on the road watching the cars around you, road signs, and traffic lights. Along with your mind on the road and destination. Which means you are multitasking. When your texting your eyes are on your cell phone screen and key pad. Along with your mind on what your going to say next. So how can you do both? Please stop!” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

39. “The road of life is filled with sunshine and clouds, black and white, triumphs and tragedies. As we continue down the road, we decide which things we bring with us, and which we leave in the rear-view mirror.” - Julie-Anne

40. “At the beginning, all roads seem endless; but they are not!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

41. “A HaltLie still, my soul, the Sun of GraceIs warm within this garden spaceBeneath tall kindly trees.The quiet light is green and fair;A fragrance fills the swooning air;Lie still, and take thine ease.This silent noon of Jesu's loveIs warm about thee and above-A tender Lord is He.Lie still an hour- this place is HisHe has a thousand pleasaunces,And each all fair and fragrant is,And each is all for thee.Then, Jesu, for a little spaceI rest me in this garden place,All sweet to scent and sight.Here, from this high-road scarce withdrawn,I thrust my hot hands in the lawnCool yet with dew of far-off dawnAnd saturate with light.But ah, dear Saviour, human-wise,I yearn to pierce all mysteries,To catch Thine Hands and see Thine EyesWhen evening sounds begin.There, in Thy white Robe, Thou wilt waitAt dusk beside some orchard gate,And smile to see me come so late,And, smiling, call me in.” - Robert Hugh Benson

42. “Every road has an end. Choose the one that worth travelling!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

43. “Life is a foggy road. You may come across anything on the road.” - Mehmet Murat ildan