55 Travel Inspiration Quotes

There's something incredibly enticing about packing a bag, grabbing a ticket, and setting off on a grand adventure. Whether you're wandering through ancient cities, lounging on pristine beaches, or trekking up misty mountains, travel has a way of reigniting our zest for life and expanding our horizons. In moments of wanderlust, nothing captures the spirit of exploration quite like a powerful quote. To spark your next journey or simply provide some daydream-worthy inspiration, we've curated a collection of the top 55 travel quotes that will move, inspire, and motivate you to follow the call of the unknown. Get ready to let your imagination soar and your travel dreams take flight!

1. “Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.” - Dave Eggers

2. “Warum bedauern wir Leute, die nicht reisen können? Weil sie sich, indem sie sich äußerlich nicht ausbreiten können, auch innerlich nicht auszudehnen vermögen, sie können sich nicht vervielfältigen, und so ist ihnen die Möglichkeit genommen, weitläufige Ausflüge in sich selbst zu unternehmen und zu entdecken, wer und was anderes sie auch hätten werden können.” - Pascal Mercier

3. “How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!” - Walter Benjamin

4. “David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali.” - Douglas Adams

5. “The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.” - Anthony Bourdain

6. “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

7. “There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.” - Ivan Doig

8. “I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glittering and wavering in the heat and humming under the tires like a plucked nerve. I was doing seventy-five but I never seemed to catch up with the pool which seemed to be over the road just this side of the horizon. Then, after a while, the sun was in my eyes, for I was driving west. So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.It was just where I went.” - Robert Penn Warren

9. “In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.” - Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

10. “All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)” - Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

11. “No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me.'Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it...” - Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

12. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” - Freya Stark

13. “When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.” - Frank Delaney

14. “Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!” - Elizabeth Gilbert

15. “They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.” - Cormac McCarthy

16. “Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

17. “As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.” - E.M. Forster

18. “She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for the delicate sake cups, resting in her hand like a blossom; she went to Japan for loveliness.” - Z.Z. Packer

19. “The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!...A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not--but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes--bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

20. “the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits - love was an arm round the neck, a cramped embrace in the smoke, wealth a little pile of palm-nuts, old age sores and leprosy, religion a few stones in the centre of the village where the dead chiefs lay, a grove of trees where the rice birds, like yellow and green canaries, built their nests, a man in a mask with raffia skirts dancing at burials. This never varied, only their kindness to strangers, the extent of their poverty and the immediacy of their terrors. Their laughter and their happiness seemed the most courageous things in nature” - Graham Greene

21. “Sind sie vorbestraft? Du lieber Himmel ich wußte gar nicht, dass das immer noch nötig ist." Britischer Witz über die Einreise nach Australien” - Eric Idle

22. “You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.” - Colin Wright

23. “Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.” - Tahir Shah

24. “Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.” - Jodi Picoult

25. “That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.” - Nicolas Bouvier

26. “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!” - Kenneth Grahame

27. “I heard wordOf bellied sailcloth,Creak of oars,And gold in Eastland.Then I smelledA smell remembered:Salt of sprayAnd black-pitched boat's keel.” - Frans G. Bengtsson

28. “You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.” - Juliet C. Obodo

29. “After every shirt she looks at me and smiles, letting go of air she no longer needs. She laughs after the sweater, knowing I’m gonna tell her it’s too hot for it, knowing she’ll say it’s for the plane and ask “what if the room gets cold?” - Darnell Lamont Walker

30. “We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

31. “The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world.” - Tynan

32. “You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is...frozen.” - Pico Iyer

33. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” - David Mitchell

34. “It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after,you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there- with your eyes open- and lived to see it.” - Anthony Bourdain

35. “I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

36. “by travelling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.” - Andrew James Pritchard

37. “...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...” - Kellie Elmore

38. “It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.” - Sarah Turnbull

39. “A traveler's most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise.” - David Dale

40. “You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.” - Sharon Shinn

41. “Papriekot latviešu cilvēks nekad neatteiksies, bet iestājies citāds – ceļošanas laikmets. Latvietis ceļo, un ceļo ne pa jokam! Cilvēks, kas neceļo, varbūt ne tik daudz citiem, kā pats sev liekas tāds kā nepilnīgs, atpalicis. Ja gribi no šīs sajūtas atkratīties, ceļo! Citas izejas nav.” - Anšlavs Eglītis

42. “The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....” - Rosita Forbes

43. “Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.” - Jack Kerouac

44. “Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.” - Rick Kennedy

45. “After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.” - Paulo Coelho

46. “A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it” - Barbara Magro

47. “Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.” - Morinosuke Kawaguchi

48. “Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.” - Deborah Cater

49. “Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.” - Deborah Moggach

50. “Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a moment you might imagine you’ve been mysteriously wafted to the French countryside, but no, this is the East End of Long Island, the most exciting new wine region in North America. You’ve reached your destination, but your journey of discovery has barely begun” - Jane Taylor Starwood

51. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient...” - Grace Lichtenstein

52. “With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.” - Edmund de Waal

53. “You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

54. “Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE...!” - Sujit Lalwani

55. “Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:The sages who have compassed sea and land,Their secret to search out and understand,My mind misgives me if they ever solveThe scheme on which the universe is planned.” - Tahir Shah