Great Travel Quotes

Find great travel quotes right here. The world of literature is full of wise observations with or without a sense of humour.

Some might be found in libraries. Other quotes may be drawn from sources like music lyrics, magazines, Twitter, and blogs.

I have a collection of more than 500. I add a promise to update the list with even more as time goes by.

In addition, the list below displays a certain number of quotes at a time. You will be able to change that number and browse the great travel quotes at your own pace. Use the search function, it is helpful. Enjoy!

UPDATE: There are now more than 800 quotes available!

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Here are a few of my favourites. Who said that? Browse the table and find the answer.

It is solved by walking.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

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. 

Adventurous travel is like a virus for many people … Once they’ve been to some far-away destination completely on their own … it’s often as if a switch has been flipped. They’ve caught the travel bug, and from that moment on they are constantly thinking about their next trip. 

Travelling 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 towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. 

Are you interested in more like this? Check out the post on paintings about travelling as well as a second article on the same subject. I have also made a series of Great travel movies. That link goes to the first of four posts. A fifth article sums up a list of 40 travels movies, in the ultimate list of great travel movies . Finally, check out my selection of Poems and quotes on trains. Or do a Google search for travel quotes.