I’m starting 2019 with new hopes and countless possibilities. There is so much that I haven’t seen and so many experiences on my travel bucket list that need to be scratched off. So, the turn of the calendar means more travels and new journeys.
Over the years, in my little imaginary handbook of travel, I have jotted down travel quotes that inspire me to go on. Don’t stop, these writers and poets say, because the journey has just begun. So, if you are looking for some travel inspiration at the beginning of this year, check out the following list of travel quotes that I have compiled for intrepid women travellers. Come on, wanderlusters, let’s get out of here!
Short Travel Quotes For The Wanderlusting Soul
- “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” –Ernest Hemingway
- “Paris is always a good idea.” –Audrey Hepburn
- “The journey not the arrival matters.” –TS Eliot
- “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” –Dalai Lama
- “Oh the places you’ll go.” –Dr Seuss
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Lao Tzu
- “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” –John Green
- “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” –Ibn Battuta
- “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” -John A Shedd
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” –Aldous Huxley
- “I read; I travel; I become.” ―Derek Walcott
- “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” –Mary Anne Radmacher
- “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” –Charles Bukowski
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” –JRR Tolkien
- “To travel is to live.” –Hans Christian Andersen
Beautiful Travel Quotes For Globetrotters
- “You will only know the road, until you have travel on it.” –Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” –Anthony Bourdain
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –Gustave Flaubert
- “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.” –Bill Bryson
- “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” –Pico Iyer
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” –St Augustine
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” –Anita Desai
- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” –Mark Twain
- “Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you.” –Rumi
- “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ” –Agnes Repplier
- “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” –Ernest Hemingway
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” –Robert Frost
Solo Travel Quotes For Women
- “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” –Jane Austen
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” –David Mitchell
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
- “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” –Albert Einstein
- “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” –Roman Payne
- “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” –Ken Poirot
- “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” –Jacqueline Boone
- “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” –Freya Stark
- “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” –Barbara De Angelis
- “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” –Mae West
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” –Ayn Rand
- “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
- “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” –Gina Greenlee
- “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” –Gina Greenlee
- “Until recently, it was considered that only losers, who obviously have zero friends in the whole wide world, are forced by their wretched fate to drag themselves alone along the paths of the planet. Today, traveling solo is perceived as a more normal phenomenon, one that we recommend you practice at least once a year.” –Maria Angelova
- “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” –Hannah Arendt
- “Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” –Natalie Goldberg
- “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” –Thomas Jefferson
- “I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.” –Bill Bryson
- “I wandered lonely as a cloud, That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” –William Wordsworth
- “Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice.” –Pico Iyer
- “A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.” –William Wordsworth
- “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” –Rumi
- “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” –Neil Gaiman
- I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” –Charlotte Eriksson
- “No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.” –Banana Yoshimoto
- “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” –Rumi
Memorable Travel Quotes From Movies
- “I want adventure in the great wild somewhere.” –Beauty and the Beast
- “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s going to happen or who I’m going to meet, where I’m going to wind up.” –Titanic
- “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.” –The Hobbit
- “Adventure is out there.” –Up
- “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” –The Lord Of The Rings
- “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” –The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
- “Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.” –The Chronicles Of Narnia
- “I’m going on an adventure.” –The Hobbit
- “Main udna chahta hoon, daudna chahta hoon, girna bhi chahta hoon…bas rukna nahi chahta.” –Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani
- “Dilon mein tum apni betaabiyan leke chal rahe ho, toh zinda ho tum.” –Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
- “Mujhe pahado mein jana hai. Phir se Himalaya dekhna hai. Bike rides, sunrise, bonfire jalana hai.” –Rockstar
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