50 Best Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Words are powerful. Words arranged into beautiful quotes can inspire us to follow our wildest dreams. Below is a roundup of 50 of my favorite travel quotes to fuel your wanderlust. Happy dreaming.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”  Marcel Proust

“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”

“Blessed are the Curious for they will have adventures.”  Lovelle Drachman

“Traveling – It Leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Battuta

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine

”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”

“All that is gold does not glitter; just as not all those who wander are lost.” JRR Tolkien

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide

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

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” Caskie Stinnett

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”  Susan Sontag

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” Asian Proverb 

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller

“To Travel is to Live” Hans Christian Andersen

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” Mary Anne Radmacher

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” Maya Angelou

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”  Marty Rubin

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” Robert Frost

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Freya Stark

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”  Martin Buber

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” John Muir

“Traveling is the great true love of my life… I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby – I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me.” Elizabeth Gilbert 

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” Rosalia de Castro

“There are 7 days in a week and someday isnt one of them.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”  Trenton Lee Stewart

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”  Oscar Wilde

“Collect moments not things.”

“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

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”  Lawrence Block

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”  Miriam Beard

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”  John Steinbeck

“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

“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

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” Ma Jian

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” Charlotte Eriksson

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”  Judith Thurman

“There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly?” Erin Hanson

“Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” J. R. R. Tolkien

“Paris is is always a good idea.”  Audrey Hepburn

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away.”

“Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.” Henry David Thoreau

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” Harun Yahya

“So much of who we are is where we have been.” William Langewiesche

“Adventure is Worthwhile.” Aesop

“Just go.”