40 QUOTES TO TICKLE YOUR TRAVEL BUG

I’m a collector of words, and I especially love to collect words about travel. I have an ongoing list of travel quotes that just speak to me. Most of them are philosophies about the inward journey that happens during the outward journey of travel.

I even made a few of them into sharable graphics. Enjoy!

“To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation.” ~Unknown

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things—air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky—all things tending toward the eternal or what we imagine of it.” ~Cesare Pavese

“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ~Herman Melville

“God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.” ~Paul Coelho

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” ~John Steinbeck

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.” ~John Steinbeck

“Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets us a ringing.” ~John Steinbeck

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” ~Mark Twain

“It’s strange, the power a place can have over you, even if you’ve never been there.” ~Fredrik Backman

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” ~Lewis Carrol

“I must insist that as much style be thrown into my journeys as possible.” ~Mark Twain

“Anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around—you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life.” ~Pico Iver

“We shall not cease from exploration/ And the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time.” ~T.S. Eliot

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~Paul Theroux

“But I am a born pilgrim. Even when I am feeling really lazy or I’m missing home, I need take only one step to be carried away by the excitement of the journey. I realize that I will never reach my goal by staying in the same place all the time. I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” ~Paul Coelho

“If adventures do not befall a lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” ~Jane Austen

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~Mark Twain

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow stronger.” ~W.B. Yeats

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” ~Miriam Adeney

“Wild hearts find a home in every place they roam.” ~C. Churchill

“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” ~John Muir

“Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of life at home.” ~Anatole France

“Paradise has never been about places. It exists in moments. In connection. In flashes of time.” ~Victoria Erickson

“A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is no so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” ~Pico Iyer

“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” ~Care Papritz

“Let us go on and take the adventure that shall fall to us.” ~C.S. Lewis

“’Stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” ~Ray Bradbury

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” ~Freya Stark

“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

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,/ To gain all while you give,/ To roam the road of lands remote,/ To travel is to live.” ~Hans Christian Andersen

“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

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~Henry Miller

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” ~Seneca

“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” ~Freya Stark

“There’s a level of travel that you can achieve wherein you almost cease to exist as you have been known to yourself. I don’t mean it as in a feeling of meaningless, or emptiness, but a sort of new kind of existence takes place. You become just particles in motion, closer in frequency to a ghost or something. You might think what I’m writing is crazy, and if you do, I suggest you grab a backpack and hit the road for a while. And when your body says it’s time to go home, don’t. Just keep going. I promise you there’s a high on the other side more memorable and beautiful than you can imagine.” ~John Mayer

“When a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.” ~Drew Bundini Brown

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~Anatole France

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~Roald Dahl

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

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