120+ Travel Quotes About Life, Adventure, and Funny

Here is my collection of over 120 travel quotes from many different corners of the internet – said by famous authors, pulled from travel films, celebrities, bloggers, Pinterest, and more.

While I was writing 5 or 6 other quotes articles, I saved my favorite quotes from across all categories right here. So this list here is a collection of my very favorite travel quotes from across many types – solo travel quotes, travel with friends quotes, adventure quotes, sunset quotes, outdoor quotes, and more.

I’m sure you’ll find some quotes that inspire you to travel, or simply make you laugh about the realities of life on the road. Either way, enjoy over 120 awesome travel quotes from travelers of all walks of life themselves.

Inspiring Travel Quotes About Life

First, we have inspiring travel quotes. These quotes will inspire you to be a better person, live your best travel life, or compare travel to life in creative and deep ways. If you are looking for Instagram, perhaps check out these travel captions instead!

If you also happen to be moving to a new place after your travels, make sure to check out my list of quotes abut moving away from home.

• “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi

• “Certainly, travel is more than seeing the sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Mary Ritter Beard

• “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” – Buddha

•  “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

• “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho

• “A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.” – Ryszard Kapuciski

• “Life isn’t safe, remember. But life can be wonderful if you choose adventure rather than fear.” – Chip Gaines

• “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”  – Anita Desai

• “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

• “The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – Rolf Potts

• “The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” – Rick Ridgeway

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

• “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, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

• “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” – Rumi

• “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

• “Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe“ – Jim Rohn

• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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

• “If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.” – Drew Barrymore

• “A good adventure is like a good literature. They both descend to the depths of our souls and they become unforgettable all our lives!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

• “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – Francis Bacon

• “When there is time, there is no money… And when there is money, there is no time… So, if you don’t want to have regrets in this life, do it when you have either of them, don’t wait for both!” – Yulia Lipovka

• “There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to keep moving, to never stop.” – Bill Bryson

• “Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – Nicolas Bouvier

• “‘See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.’ – Ray Bradbury

• “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. 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 does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

• “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

• “Wanderlust isn’t about running away from it all. It’s about experiencing the outside to discover the inside.” – Unknown

• “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

Travel Quotes About Adventure + Life

These quotes below are more geared toward adventure travel quotes and comparing life to a massive adventure to be lived all over the world.

• “Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.” – Josiah Bancroft

• “Don’t stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn’t mean you have to be.” – Joyce Rachelle

• “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

• “I don’t have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.” – Queen Latifah

• “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open” – Jawaharlal Nehru

• “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

• “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller

• “Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.” – Lucy R. Lippard

• “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless

• “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

• “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”– Bill Bryson

• “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” – Vera Nazarian

• “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer

• “Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – Seneca

• “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

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

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

• “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”– Stephen Covey

• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

• “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 is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

• “Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” – Libya Bray

• “You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” –  Gayle Forman

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

• “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

• “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”– William Feather

• “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot

• “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg.

• “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” – Yogi Bhajan

• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

• “If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” – Richard Branson

• “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camers

• “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at least to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

• “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” – W. M. Lewis

• “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” – George Eliot

• “Of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Richard Francis Burton

• “Oh, the places you’ll go.”– Dr. Seuss

• “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

• “I would rather own little and see the world than own the world and see little of it.” – Alexander Sattler 

• “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey

• “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina

• “Go where you feel most alive.” – Unknown

• “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

• “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra

• “Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.” – Drew Houston

• “No reason to stay is a good reason to go.”

• “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.” – Norman Rockwell

• “I love places that make you realize how tiny I and my problems are.” – Unknown

Life on the Road Travel Quotes

These travel quotes muse about life on the road. You may be able to relate them to to moments on a long trip, both good and bad.

• “The road listens. It believes in you.” – Foster Kinn

• “The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.” – Tiffanie DeBartolo

• “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

• “Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” – Paul Sheeha

• “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

• “There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

• “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

• Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. – Elizabeth Berg

•  “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

• “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” – Susan Sontag

• “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

• “I met a lot of young people who asked me what books to read or films to watch. I think that is a good way to start, but there’s no substitute for just going there.“ – Yvon Chouinard

• Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” – Lisa St Aubin de Téran

Outdoor Travel Quotes

These are outdoor travel quotes about beautiful places, mountains, fresh air, and all those other great things you can get when traveling in the outdoors.

• “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

• “Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before.” – Richard Aldington

• “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay 

• “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” – John Lubbock 

• “You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss

• “A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.” – Sir Martin Conway

• “If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.” – Wilfrid Noyce

• “Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.” – Victoria Erikson

• “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”– Sylvia Plath

• “Escape and breathe the air of new places.” – Unknown

• “Real freedom lies in the wilderness, not in civilization.” – Charles Lindbergh

• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

• “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

Funny Travel Quotes

Lastly – a travel quotes article wouldn’t be complete without funny travel quotes would it?! Here are some travel quotes to make you giggle.

• “Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito.” – Unknown

• “There is no WiFi in the forest but I promise you will find a better connection.” – Unknown

• “Some people spend their life searching for “the one”. I’m just searching for the one good travel deal.“

• That moment when you’re asked where you got something and you answer with the name of the country, not the name of the store.

• “If by 35 I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the cool aunt who’s always traveling.”

• “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” Charles M. Schulz 

• Me before vacation: “I’m going to be responsible with my money. This is a low budget trip. I’m gonna stay in a hostel and be frugal.” Me on vacation: *orders cocktails, rides a camel, goes skydiving, buys souvenirs for the uncle’s new girlfriend and adopts an alpaca.*

• “I followed my heart and it took me to the airport.“

• Tripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any travel trips currently booked.

• I don’t want a house. I just want to travel and pet a lot of dogs.

• “My favorite memory from childhood is my parents paying for my holidays.”

• “Ironing boards are just surfboards that gave up their dreams and got a boring job. Don’t be an ironing board.“

• “Yeah, working is great… but have you tried traveling?”

• “You never feel true fear until your passport isn’t where you think you left it.“

• “If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise.”

I hope you have enjoyed over 120 travel quotes! Let me know which ones are your favorite!