92 Inspiring Travel Quotes

Traveling has a unique way of opening our hearts and minds, offering new perspectives and unforgettable experiences. Whether you're dreaming of exotic destinations, planning your next adventure, or simply seeking a little inspiration to get through the week, the right words can spark a powerful wanderlust. To fuel your passion for exploration, we've gathered a curated collection of the top 92 inspiring travel quotes that capture the essence of journeying to new horizons. These quotes, from renowned explorers, authors, and adventurers, are sure to ignite your sense of wonder and encourage you to pack your bags and set out on your next great adventure. So sit back, relax, and let these words transport you to the far corners of the world.

1. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” - George Augustus Moore

2. “The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.” - Patrick Marnham

3. “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” - Robert Benchley

4. “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

5. “How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.” - E.M. Forster

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

7. “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” - Anna Quindlen

8. “to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

9. “...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.” - David Mitchell

10. “It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.” - Robin McKinley

11. “There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.” - colum mccann

12. “While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.” - John Woolman

13. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ” - Lin Yutang

14. “Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.” - Michael Mewshaw

15. “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.” - John Lubbock

16. “The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” - Rolf Potts

17. “Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such as no other assemblage of syllables, however sweet or classic, can produce. Belgium! I repeat the word, now as I sit alone near midnight. It stirs my world of the past like a summons to resurrection; the graves unclose, the dead are raised; thoughts, feelings, memories that slept, are seen by me ascending from the clods--haloed most of them--but while I gaze on their vapoury forms, and strive to ascertain definitely their outline, the sound which wakened them dies, and they sink, each and all, like a light wreath of mist, absorbed in the mould, recalled to urns, resealed in monuments.” - Charlotte Brontë

18. “Cuando estamos lejos de la patria nunca la recordamos en sus inviernos. La distancia borra las penas del invierno, las poblaciones desamparadas, los niños descalzos en el frío. El arte del recuerdo sólo nos trae campiñas verdes, flores amarillas y rojas, el cielo azulado del himno nacional.” - Pablo Neruda

19. “This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.” - Alice Munro

20. “This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.” - Neil Gaiman

21. “The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire” - Robert W. Service

22. “I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.” - Bill Bryson

23. “London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.” - Laura Fraser

24. “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.” - Robert Penn Warren

25. “Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.” - Mark Helprin

26. “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” - Penelope Riley

27. “There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.” - Claudio Magris

28. “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.

29. “Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.” - Christopher Hitchens

30. “The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.” - Clara E. Laughlin

31. “The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.” - Guillermo Del Toro

32. “Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans” - John Steinbeck

33. “One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.” - Sarah Glidden

34. “You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.” - Nury Vittachi

35. “Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming on, the sun declining in ghastly blood-streaked splendour like a public execution across, it would seem, half a continent, where live only bears and shooting stars and the wolves who lap congealing ice from water that holds within it the entire sky. All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be used or touched. Horrors! And, as on a cyclorama, this unnatural spectacle rolls past at twenty-odd miles an hour in a tidy frame of lace curtains only a little the worse for soot and drapes of a heavy velvet of dark, dusty blue.” - Angela Carter

36. “The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.” - Gregory Maguire

37. “He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.” - Al Masudi

38. “I heard a choking sound behind me. When I looked back, Cannoli was hanging from the backpack harness with her hind legs circling frantically in the air. She looked like she was riding a bike just above ground level. "Cannoli," I yelled. I unhooked her and made sure she was breathing on her own. When I tried to get her back in the backpack, she whimpered. I talked to her soothingly yet firmly, then tried again. This time she started howling like I was hurting her. People turned and stared as they walked by. "What are you looking at?" I said to one couple. I suddenly felt true remorse for every time I'd stared at a parent with a toddler throwing a tantrum. I made a vow to be a better aunt to Tulia's kids if I ever made it out of this parking garage. I pleaded with Cannoli one more time.” - Claire Cook

39. “The world isn't built with a ramp.” - Walt Balenovich

40. “Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” - Shane Koyczan

41. “A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.” - Damon Galgut

42. “The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.” - Elisabeth Eaves

43. “It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.” - Cara Bertoia

44. “Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.” - Thornton Wilder

45. “With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.” - William Least Heat-Moon

46. “[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.” - Elizabeth von Arnim

47. “Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler” - Ira Levin

48. “In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.” - Booker T. Washington

49. “As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.” - Tahir Shah

50. “I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.” - Tahir Shah

51. “Kamu juga selalu ngomong, you will never never know if you never never try. Kita nggak boleh menilai buku dari luarnya aja, kan?” - Winna Efendi

52. “The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have, generally speaking, obstacles to prevent their roving.” - Abigail Adams

53. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” - Isabelle Eberhardt

54. “أدركت بعد ساعات من التسكع في هذا الشارع أني لا أتفرج على ألمانيا.. وإنما أتفرج على نفسي.. على الصورة التي في ذهن الألمان عني وعن السواح من كل الألوان.” - مصطفى محمود

55. “To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” - T.L. Rese

56. “[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

57. “There is no "wrong train.” - CrimethInc.

58. “Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary.” - Paul Bowles

59. “It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.” - Henry James

60. “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

61. “Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.” - Pico Iyer

62. “The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.” - Bruce Chatwin

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

64. “You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.” - Terry Pratchett

65. “Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas - where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.” - George Eliot

66. “[...] I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.''As sanitary engineer?''No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.” - Bruce Chatwin

67. “So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore.” - T.S. Eliot

68. “There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.” - Jack Kerouac

69. “There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?” he would answer him “I am he.” - Charles Montagu Doughty

70. “When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat-Moon

71. “Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?'Worries Forget your worries All the stations full of cracks tilted along the way The telegraph wires they hang from The grimacing poles that gesticulate and strangle themThe world stretches lengthens and folds in like an accordion tormented by a sadistic handIn the cracks of the sky the locomotives in anger FleeAnd in the holes,The whirling wheels the mouths the voicesAnd the dogs of misfortune that bark at our heelsThe demons are unleashedIron railsEverything is off-key The broun-roun-roun of the wheelsShocksBouncesWe are a storm under a deaf man's skull...'Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?'Hell yes, you're getting on my nerves you know very well we're far away Overheated madness bellows in the locomotivePlague, cholera rise up like burning embers on our wayWe disappear in the war sucked into a tunnel Hunger, the whore, clings to the stampeding cloudsAnd drops battle dung in piles of stinking corpsesDo like her, do your job'Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?” - Blaise Cendrars

72. “Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice” - Pico Iyer

73. “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” - Charles Bukowski

74. “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

75. “The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in the Arabian tale, they succeeded in snatching a memorial from every shrine they visited.” - James Holman

76. “In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them.” - Rosita Forbes

77. “Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.” - Larry Herzberg

78. “When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.” - Tracey Wilen

79. “Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.” - Donald Richie

80. “One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.” - Alain De Botton

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

82. “In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.” - Morinosuke Kawaguchi

83. “Wanderlust is incurable.” - Mark Jenkins

84. “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

85. “Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.” - Nick Miller

86. “Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.” - Eric Weiner

87. “Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.” - Paul Theroux

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

89. “What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge.” - vivek sahni

90. “See it, learn it, do it ALL.” - Jamie McCall

91. “I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.” - Tahir Shah

92. “It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there.” - Ian Frazier