Wanderlust: These Quotes That Will Inspire Your Next Trip ✈️💫
You’ve scrolled through the Instagram feeds of all your favourite globetrotters over and over again and you’ve spent 25 minutes on our blog reading articles that are each more inspiring than the last (😉 )? In short, you’re hot, hot, hot to go on an adventure right now! So, to add another layer, here’s a compilation of travel quotes by authors and adventurers that will motivate you, inspire you or give you something to think about…
50 travel quotes
“The man who wishes to learn must first read, and then travel to rectify what he has learned.”
Giacomo Casanova
📍 Essaouira, Morocco
“The only way to face a world without freedom is to become so absolutely free that you make your own existence an act of revolt.”
Albert Camus
📍 Fuerteventura, Spain
“But the true travellers are those alone who set out to set out.”
Charles Baudelaire
📍 Petra, Jordan
“Nothing develops intelligence like travel.”
Émile Zola
📍 Liguria, Italy
“He who has not left his country is full of prejudice.”
Carlo Goldoni
📍 Joshua Tree, United States
“The safest place for a boat is in port. But that’s not what the boat was created for…”
Anonymous
📍 Seville, Spain
“When you arrive in a city, you see streets in perspective, suites of buildings devoid of meaning. Everything is unknown, untouched. Later, you’ll have lived in that city, walked its streets, been to the end of its perspectives, got to know its buildings, lived its stories with its people. When you’ve lived in this city, you’ll have walked down this street ten, twenty, a thousand times. At the end of the day, it’s all yours because you’ve lived there.”
The Spanish Inn
📍 Chiang Rai, Thailand
📸 @venikz
“Every globetrotter in the world knows that it’s on the streets that they rub shoulders with a country’s identity, both aesthetic and political, both mystical and economic.”
Manu Chao
📍 Bali, Indonesia
“Admittedly, a doughnut dream is a dream, not a doughnut. But a dream of a journey is already a journey.”
Marek Halter
📍 Cascais, Portugal
“You have to travel to rub and file your brains against someone else’s.”
Montaigne
📍 Bagan, Myanmar
📸 @caras.3
“The world is a book and those who don’t travel only read one page.”
Saint Augustine
📍 Machu Picchu, Peru
“Travel for me isn’t about arriving, it’s about leaving. It’s the unexpectedness of the next stopover, it’s the never-fulfilled desire to know something else again and again, it’s tomorrow, eternally tomorrow.”
Roland Dorgélès
📍 El Nido, Palawan
“The further we travel, the less we know about each other.”
Lao-Tseu
📍 Bali, Indonesia
“And there is nothing more beautiful than the moment before the journey, the moment when tomorrow’s horizon comes to visit us and tell us its promises.”
Milan Kundera
📍 Giza, Egypt
“The real voyage of discovery isn’t about seeking out new landscapes, it’s about having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
📍 Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
“Because at the end of the day, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or mowing the lawn. Go climb the damn mountain.”
Jack Kerouac
📍 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“When she runs away, the road is the only lover worth following.”
Sylvain Tesson
📍 Venice, Italy
“It’s good to travel a few times; it expands your ideas and lowers your self-esteem.”
Sainte-Beuve
📍 Lake Braies, Italy
“There is no man more complete than he who has travelled a great deal, who has changed the shape of his thought and his life twenty times.”
Lamartine
📍 Uadi Rum, Jordan
“Never be afraid of life, never be afraid of adventure, trust chance, luck, destiny. Set off, conquer other spaces, other hopes. The rest will be given to you as well
Henry de Monfreid
📍 Phuket, Thailand
“The true traveller doesn’t know where he’s going.”
Chinese proverb
📍 Blue Lagoon, Laos
“People don’t make journeys, journeys make people.”
John Steinbeck
📍 San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua
“It makes you modest to travel, you see what a small place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
📍 Bali, Indonesia
“Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So think outside the box. Set sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
📍 Hai Van Pass, Vietnam
“Life isn’t just about breathing, it’s also about having your breath taken away.”
Alfred Hitchcock
📍 Bali, Indonesia
“Don’t live to travel, travel to live!”
Anonymous
📍 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“To travel is to be born and die every moment.”
Victor Hugo
📍 Minca, Colombia
“Against the sorrows of life, isn’t travel the best remedy?”
Michel Tournier
📍 Arrial Do Cabo, Brasile
“On the first journey you discover, on the second you are enriched.”
Tuareg proverb
📍 Kalpa, India
“He who travels without meeting the other does not travel, he moves.”
Alexandra David-Néel
📍 Valencia, Spagna
“On the road, the best thing is to get lost. When you get lost, plans give way to surprises and then, but only then, does the journey begin.”
Nicolas Bouvier
📍 Dalawella, Sri Lanka
“If you think adventure is dangerous, I suggest you try routine…. It’s deadly.”
Paulo Coelho
📍 Lombok, Indonesia
“Travelling is about discovering other people. And the first stranger to discover is you.”
Oliver Föllmi
📍 Minca, Colombia
“All you have to do is decide to leave. And the hard part is done.”
Tony Wheeler
📍 Honduras
📸 @hownottotravellikeabasicbitch
“To stay is to exist. To travel is to live.”
Gustave Naudad
📍 India
“We travel to change, not our place, but our ideas.”
Hippolyte Taine
📍 Budapest, Hungary
“We don’t make a journey. The journey makes us and unmakes us, it invents us.”
David Le Breton
📍 Malaga, Spain
“You can travel not to run away from yourself, which is impossible, but to find yourself.”
Jean Grenier
📍 Dunnottar Castle, United Kingdom
“One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the lack of the unexpected, the absence of adventure.”
Théophile Gauthier
📍 Harz, Germany
“Travel is the education of youth and the experience of old age.”
Francis Bacon
📍 Sequoia National Park, United States
📸 @vitto_s
“What in general is a traveller? He’s a man who goes off to find a piece of conversation at the end of the world.”
Barbay d’Aurevilly
📍 Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
📸 @shadip
“The hardest thing for a man who lives in Vilvoorde and wants to go and live in Hong Kong is not going to Hong Kong, it’s leaving Vilvoorde.”
Jacques Brel
📍 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
“All travel is an assault. It forces you to trust strangers and lose sight of the familiar comforts of home and friends, you’re in a perpetual state of imbalance. You have nothing except the essentials – the air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things that tend towards eternity, or at least what we imagine it to be.”
Cesare Pavese
📍 Zanzibar, Tanzania
“People are scared. Fear is ignorance. So the more educated you are, the more you travel, the more languages you speak, the less ignorant you are, so the less afraid you are. Fear really is ignorance.”
Robert Lepage
📍 Delta Do Parnaìba, Brazil
“Whoever is used to travelling… knows that there always comes a time when you have to leave.”
Paulo Coelho
📍 Point Reyes, United States
“Travel is a kind of door through which we leave reality as if to enter an unexplored reality that seems like a dream.”
Guy de Maupassant
📍 Chichen Itza, Mexico
“The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he came to see.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
📍 New York, United States
“Travel is a return to basics.”
Tibetan proverb
📍 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
“To travel is to be unfaithful. Be it without remorse; forget your friends with strangers.”
Paul Morand
📍 Piedra Del Coyote, Chile
“Leaving is leaving your cocoon, opening your wings and taking flight. It means realising that we’re not the only ones on the planet, that we don’t know everything the way we thought we did. It makes you more humble, more tolerant and a little more intelligent
Pierre Fillit
📍 Santa Marta, Colombia
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