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134 Funny Travel Quotes That Will Make You Laugh 2024

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Looking for a laugh? Check out this bumper collection of the funniest and most relatable travel quotes out there.

Designed to put a smile on your face and inspire your next travel adventure, these funny travel quotes will banish boredom and keep you entertained whilst you wait for your next trip to roll around. They are created to be shared, so make sure you send your favorite ones onto your friends!

Fun Quotes About Traveling When You’re Broke

• Stuck somewhere between “I need to save” and “you only live once”. 
• Friend: Let’s go to Bora Bora. Me: Man, I wanna go, but I’m pora pora.
• My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.
• When you’re trying to save money for a house, but end up with a one-way ticket to some tropical island.
• If traveling was free, BYE!

Funny Quotes about Travel

• I need a reasonably paid job. Something like $2000 an hour. Nothing too wild…
• Me: “I want to travel more”, the bank account: “Like, to the park?”
• 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 everything.”Me on vacation: *orders fancy drinks, rides a jetski, goes skydiving, buys souvenirs for the uncle’s new girlfriend and adopts an alpaca.*
• I wish that road trips could pay my bills.

Funny Travel Instagram Captions

• At the end of the day…I’d rather like to have a lot of stories to tell, than a full bank account.
• I wish I was a postcard. For under $2 you can travel the world to any location in the world. 
• Do you ever stress about money and then accidentally book another flight?
• I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance. 
• Backpacking is money spent on Education.
• Bank account nice and empty. Starting the new year on a clean slate.

Funny Captions on Travel For When You’re At Work

• How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel.
• I love when people say “just quit your job and travel.” Taking an Uber from the bar to my home is the only travel I can afford. 
• Go to work. Open computer. Scroll for plane tickets for 6 hours. Close computer. Go home.
• I need a vacation so long, I forget all my passwords!

Funny Holiday Quotes

• Work tip: Stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Go to the airport. Get on a plane. Never return.
• Yeah, working is great…but have you tried travelling. 
• There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.
• Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito. 
• Ironing boards are surfboards that gave up their dreams and got a boring job. Don’t be an ironing board.

Funny Captions for Trip with Friends

• Life is short. Call in sick and book that last minute flight. 
• I feel like most of my work problems could be solved with a trip to…anywhere.
• I googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.
• I’m getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach.

Travel Quotes About Funny But True Life Priorities

• Everyone is pregnant, engaged or getting married. I just wanna lose weight and travel.
• Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead
• I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine
• I just want to travel the world, overspend at IKEA and drink coffee while cuddling puppies.
• Friend 1: I’m getting a house. Friend 2: I’m having a baby. Friend 3: I’m getting married Me: I’m headed to the airport. 

Holiday Quotes Funny

• People having babies…and I’m like: What country am I going to next?
• I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.
• I don’t want a house. I just want to travel and pet a lot of dogs.
• Screw the caviar, I want to travel the world!
• Reality called, so I hung up.

Funny Quotes For Vacation Obsessed Globetrotters

• I need 6 months of vacation. Twice a year.
• I’m a travel fiend on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport.
• I’ve got 99 problems. But I’m on vacation so I’m ignoring them all!
• “You can’t buy happiness” Okay, explain travel then…
• Travsessed ( n .) An obsession with travel. When all you talk or think about is your past or future trips

Vacation Quotes Funny

• It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.
• Good things come to those, who book flights. 
• I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
• Tripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any travel trips currently booked.
• You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.

Funny Quotes on Travel

• Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers. – George Carlin
• A coconut a day keeps the doctor away.
• “Be strong”, I whisper to my WiFi signal
• Jetlag is for amateurs

Funny Vacation Captions You Can Relate To

• My parents complain I travel too much. I mean, I could be a dr*ggie, do they realize how lucky they are?
• A plane ticket is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
• Don’t speak the language. Already said 3 times “what”. Now just smile and nod and hope for the best.
• Me travelling. Person: “Un Cafe?” Me: “Oui” Person: “Sucre” Me: “Non” Person: “You speak very good french” Me: “Gracias”
• You’ve never felt true fear until your passport isn’t where you think you left it.

Travel Captions Funny

• Have you ever stopped to think, maybe travel is into me?
• Education is important. But travel is importanter!
• If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise.
• Me thinking about how many flights I can book for the cost of a new iPhone 14 Pro.
• I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m going. Are you coming with me?

Funny Quotes about Traveling

• Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland.
• 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.
• Travelling is like a chocolate box. Don’t matter what you get. All is good.

Funny Quotes On Travel And Love

• Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world.
• All you need is  love  a passport.
• I followed my heart and it led me to the airport. 
• If you had to choose between true love or travelling the world, which country would you visit first? 
• All I want for Christmas is  you  forever vacation.

Travel Funny Quotes

• Imagine falling in love with someone and then finding out they clap their hands when the plane lands.
• Some people spend their life searching for “the one”. I’m just searching for the one good travel deal.
• I’ve got a crush on the world.
• I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine!

Funny Travel Memes About The Life Goals Of A Traveller

• Birds literally just eat, travel, and make a mess on things they don’t like. I don’t know about you, but that’s the lifestyle I’m striving for.
• By 35, if I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the aunt who’s always travelling & comes to family events tipsy.
• High five if you don’t know what you’re doing with your life and just want to travel the world.
• I want to live in the world where searching for plane tickets burns calories.
• Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should be on the beach drinking Margaritas.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

• Be afraid. And do it anyway.
• Can we just skip to the part in my life where I travel the world?
• I just need a large coffee, a plane ticket and a bag full of cash. 
• Getting out of bed would be 10x easier if there was a Caribbean ocean and 30 degree weather waiting outside for you.
• I love those days when my only decision is whether to go to the beach in the morning or in the afternoon.
• Live a life you don’t need a vacation from.

Funny Quotes about Vacation

• Work hard. Travel harder.
• I need a holiday. And by “holiday” I mean I need to move away and find a job. On the beach. With cocktails. 
• The temptation to go to the airport, buy a one-way ticket, leave the country and live on my own has never been so real.
• Ladies, imagine this. It’s 15 years from now, and you have no kids. You’re the cool wine aunt that occasionally comes back to the country for a brief visit before leaving for another long exotic vacation. You have no commitments, and a suspicious amount of money.

Funny Vacation Quotes About Packing

• Packs 2 hours before leaving for a trip. Unpacks 3 months after coming home.
• Going on a trip. Need about 5 outfits. I’ve packed 35 just to be safe.
• Me: triple checked packing list Also me: *forgets underwear, contact solution, and favorite chapstick*.
• Watches Netflix happily. Remembers you need to pack. Watches Netflix stressfully.

Funny Traveling Quotes

• Me: I’m not going to overpack this time. Inner me: I need this. I will need that as well. I need everything.
• Procrastapacking (n.) the act of thinking about packing a suitcase instead of actually doing it.
• Overpack. It’s why suitcases have wheels now.

Funny Adventure Quotes

• I haven’t worn these trousers since I bought them. I should definitely pack them for my 3 day vacation. Just in case.
• So, do I live out of a suitcase for the next month? Do I unpack just to repack again? Do I put my toothbrush back in the bathroom? I’m a visitor in my own house what the heck.
• My favorite thing to pack on trips are all the clothes I never wear at home and then find fun, flirty and exciting ways to not wear them while I’m away.

Funny Captions for Travel

• Normal life: Wears the same top every day for a week. Packing for 3-day vacation: I’ll probably change a few times a day so I’ll take 21 tops.
• I have been to almost as many places as my luggage.
• Me getting ready for vacation: manicure and pedicure, buy new Sephora products, spray tan, get waxed, get hair done, work out for a month, live off kale and veggies, try on 30K swimsuits and cry in dressing rooms. Husband getting ready for vacation: packs a bathing suit, flip-flops, a T-shirt, and calls it a day.

Funny Travel Captions About Airports

• Running to the gate is my cardio.
• Airports: the only place where drinking 8 AM is socially acceptable.
• The airport is a lawless place. 7 am? Drink a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost 17$.
• A passport holder sounds like a great idea until you get to the airport and have to remove it 4 billion times.

Funny Adventure Captions

• Worrying you’ve accidentally packed 3 kilos of dr*gs and an animal carcass as you walk through “nothing to declare” at the airport.
• I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.
• “Be right back…” Just running away from Monday and going straight to the airport. 

Traveling Quotes That Are Funny

• If you look like your passport picture, you probably need a trip.
• Vacation calories don’t count, right?
• What’s that medical condition called where you constantly need to have a trip booked? 
• Should I book another flight to go abroad? Brain: no. Wallet: no. Mom: no. Dog: no. Universe: no…I think I’m gonna book the flight.
• You can’t make everyone happy. You are not a plane ticket.

Vacation Funny Quotes

• TIP: You won’t get the holiday blues if you just keep booking holidays.
• You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license…
• In desperate need of a full body massage, 4 days of sleep and a ticket to the Bahamas.
• Can’t decide if I need a hug, an XL coffee, 6 ounces of vodka, or 2 months of travel.
• Travitude (n.) when you start to feel grumpy and sassy because you haven’t travelled in a while.
• My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents happening in places I’m about to visit.

Funny Travel Captions for Instagram

121. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark

122. “Worst thing about being a tourist, is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!” – Russell Baker

123. “You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” – Paul Theroux

124. “I’m getting used to wearing flip flops everywhere. It’s a dangerous place to be. Next thing you know, I’m gonna show to a board meeting in sandals.”

Travel Funny Captions

125. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” —  Al Gore

126. “Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” – Steve Martin 

127. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

128. “Don’t worry about the world ending today; it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz

129. “Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by stark moments of terror.” – Al Boliska

130. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them” – Mark Twain

131. “Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain

132. “I travel light but not at the same speed.” – Jarod Kintz

133. “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler

134. “I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal.” – Jarod Kintz

That’s 134 Best Funny Trip Quotes

That’s a wrap on my hand picked selection of the best funny travel quote and witty puns out there. I hope they’ve entertained you and brought a smile to your face.

If so, I’d love to know which of these funny quotes about adventure were your favorites and if you know of any more I need to add to this list please comment below!

Remember, if you loved these funny travel quotes and want more inspiration and motivation check out the other travel captions and quotes I’ve compiled:

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• Summer Captions for Instagram
• London Quotes
• Road Trip Quotes
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• Best Nature Quotes
• Beach Quotes
• Hiking Quotes
• Outdoor Quotes
• Quotes about Exploration
• Waterfall Quotes
• Sunset Captions for Instagram
• Miami Quotes
• California Instagram Captions
• Arizona Quotes
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120 Best Solo Travel Instagram Captions & Quotes

Niklas Forstreuter

• April 9, 2024

If you’re getting ready for a solo trip, you might need some inspiration for your solo travel Instagram captions, which is where these fun quotes come in. Traveling alone is something everyone should try at least once in their lives, and it can be a very liberating experience.

Get the ultimate solo travel experience and let these quotes and Instagram captions spice up your feed.

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Best solo travel Instagram captions

Embark on a solo adventure and capture every moment with these empowering solo travel Instagram captions, perfect for showcasing the freedom and discovery of exploring the world alone.

1. Roaming free, just me and the world.

2. Embracing solo adventures, no reservations needed.

3. Solo journey, endless possibilities.

4. Exploring the world, one solo step at a time.

5. Lost in the beauty of solo exploration.

6. Solo traveler, but never alone.

7. Solo expedition, no limits, no regrets.

8. Just me, myself, and I.

9. Solo journey, rewriting my own story. 

10. My kind of therapy. 

11. Traveling solo, finding serenity. 

12. Finding peace in new places.

13. By traveling solo, you get to know the real you.

14. Living my best life, one plane ticket at a time.

Short solo travel Instagram captions

Embrace the solo journey with these short and sweet captions, perfect for capturing the essence of freedom and adventure while traveling alone. You might also like these even shorter captions .

15. Free as a bird.

16. Home is wherever I am.

17. Travel now, work later.

18. Why not go solo. 

19. Memories.

20. Adventure. 

21. Be back never. 

22. Ridin’ solo!

23. Catch me if you can. 

24. I think I’ll stay here. 

25. Woke up in paradise. 

26. Go solo, go far. 

27. My passport, my rules. 

28. Learning who I am.

Funny solo travel captions and quotes for Instagram

Adding a touch of humor to your solo adventures with these funny captions, perfect for sharing the joy and spontaneity of traveling alone on Instagram.

29. Just me, myself, and I… and my camera for awkward selfies.

30. Off on a solo adventure, where my only baggage is my overpacked suitcase.

31. Flying solo: where getting lost is half the fun.

32. Solo traveler tip: always pretend to know where you’re going.

33. Because sometimes the best company is my own.

34. Pretending to talk on the phone to avoid awkward social interactions.

35. Lost again? Must be the scenic route… definitely not lost.

36. Just me, myself, and my terribly timed camera timer.

37. Mastering the art of eating alone without looking lonely.

38. Where every wrong turn becomes an unexpected adventure.

39. Spending more time talking to my plants than actual humans.

40. Where my only deadline is the checkout time at the hostel.

41. Lost in translation… or maybe just lost in general.

42. Keep calm and carry on… until I find Wi-Fi.

Best solo travel quotes for Instagram

Embrace the freedom of solo travel with these inspiring quotes, perfect for adding depth and perspective to your Instagram posts and capturing the essence of independence on the road.

43. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

44. “Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

45. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

46. “If peace is what you seek, solitude may be the path.” – Hindi

47. “In solitude, you’ll find the answers to your questions.” – Unknown

48. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

49. “Life on the open road is the essence of freedom.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

50. “To travel happily, you must travel light. And to travel light, you must travel alone.” – Nomadic Yak

51. “He travels the fastest who travels alone.” – Rudyard Kipling

52. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Buddha

53. “No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.” – Haruki Murakami

54. “The best thing about solo travel is that you don’t have to negotiate with anyone. You can do exactly what you want.” – Sherry Ott

Beach Instagram captions for solo travel

Immerse yourself in the serenity of solo beach travel with these captivating captions, perfect for capturing the tranquility and beauty of seaside solitude on Instagram.

55. Soaking up the sun, one wave at a time.

56. Lost in the rhythm of the waves.

57. Beach bumming it like a pro.

58. Surf, sand, and solo adventures.

59. Where the only decision is whether to swim or sunbathe.

60. Living my best beach life.

61. Just me and the ocean. 

62. Just me and the endless horizon.

63. Beach days are the best days, especially when it’s just me.

64. Making waves and memories all by myself.

65. Sand between my toes, peace in my soul.

66. Beach days and solo rays.

67. Finding my own slice of paradise along the coast.

68. It’s just me, the sand, and the sea.

Adventure solo travel Instagram captions

Embark on a solo adventure and capture the thrill with these adventurous captions, perfect for showcasing the courage and freedom of solo travel on Instagram.

69. Off on a solo adventure. 

70. Rewriting the map as I go.

71. One solo expedition at a time.

72. Adventure calling, and I’m the only one picking up.

73. Thriving in solo adventure.

74. Adventure addict.

75. Living the adventure dream, solo and loving it.

76. Every moment is an invitation to explore.

77. Solo expedition: because life’s too short for regrets.

78. Embracing the wild unknown, solo and undaunted.

79. The only compass I need is my intuition.

80. Rewriting the definition of adventure.

81. Adventure awaits, and I’m the solo star of the show.

Nature solo travel Instagram captions and quotes

Embrace the tranquility of solo travel amidst nature’s wonders with these captivating captions, perfect for showcasing the beauty and serenity of your outdoor adventures on Instagram.

82. Finding myself along the way.

83. Nature’s playground, and I’m the solo adventurer.

84. Exploring nature’s masterpiece, one solo journey at a time.

85. Where the only sounds are birdsong and my own footsteps.

86. Every sunrise is a masterpiece.

87. Nature’s therapy session, solo style.

88. Becoming one with nature. 

89. Where trees are my company and stars my guide.

90. Savoring the silence of solo nature walks.

91. Lost in the magic of landscapes.

92. Nature’s whispers: guiding me on my solo journey.

Nightlife solo travel Instagram captions and quotes

Dive into the vibrant nightlife scene with these solo travel captions, perfect for capturing the excitement and energy of exploring new cities after dark on Instagram.

93. Solo travel means never having to share your cocktails.

94. Chasing neon dreams on my own terms.

95. Dancing through the night, no partner required.

96. Riding solo through the city lights.

97. Just me and the rhythm of the night.

98. Solo adventures, midnight memories.

99. Turning strangers into friends.

100. No plus one, no problem.

101. Night owl flying solo.

102. Exploring the night, guided by starlight.

103. Making every moment count, on my own.

104. Solo and loving every moment.

105. No curfew when you’re your own best company.

106. Making memories in the moonlight.

City exploration solo travel Instagram captions

Embark on a solo journey through bustling cities and capture the vibrant spirit with these exploration-focused captions, perfect for showcasing the thrill of urban adventures on Instagram.

107. Lost in the city but feeling right at home.

108. Urban explorer on a solo mission.

109. Coffee in one hand, city map in the other.

110. Exploring every corner of the city.  

111. Blending with locals, living like one.

112. No tour guide needed.

113. Making the concrete jungle my playground.

114. Crafting my own map.

115. City lights, solo nights.

116. Dancing through the streets, solo but free.

117. Letting the city streets lead the way.

118. Getting lost to find new perspectives.

119. Me, my camera, and a city full of stories.

120. My solo city adventure, my rules. 

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218 Ridiculously Funny Travel Quotes That Travelers Can Relate To

Don’t they say laughter is the best medicine? Well, it is, besides traveling of course.  Here I have compiled a list of 218 funny travel quotes that will knock your socks off your feet. I am pretty sure if you’re an avid traveler like me you can relate to each one of these hilarious funny travel quotes if not all.

Give yourself a good chuckle with these insanely funny travel captions for your Instagram until you’re on the next jet plane.

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Funny Travel Quotes

1| “Travitude (n.) when you start to feel grumpy and sassy because you haven’t travelled in a while”- Unknown

2| “ You’ve never felt true fear until your passport isn’t where you think you left it.- Unknown 

3| “What’s that medical condition called where you constantly need to have a trip booked?” 

4|“Should I book another flight to go abroad? Brain: no. Wallet: no. Mom: no. Dog: no. Universe: no…I think I’m gonna book the flight.”- Unknown

5| “Birds literally just eat, travel, and shit on things they don’t like. I don’t know about you, but that’s the lifestyle I’m striving for.”- Unknown

6| “Friend 1: I’m getting a house. Friend 2: I’m having a baby. Friend 3: I’m getting married.  Me: I’m headed to the airport.”- Unknown

7|“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

8| “Imagine falling in love with someone and then finding out they clap their hands when the plane lands.”- Unknown

9| “I feel like most of my problems could be solved with a trip to…well, anywhere.” – Anonymous

10| “When you’re trying to save money for a house, but end up with a one-way ticket to some tropical island.”- Unknown

11| “I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.” – Guy Clark

12| “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

13| “If you’re upset when traveling, just thing about a T-Rex trying to drink a martini…”- Unknown

14| “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” – Erma Bombeck

15| “What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?” – George Carlin

16| “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket and that’s kind of the same thing.”-Unknown

17| “There’s nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.”-Stephen Colbert

18|  “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” — Al Gore

19| “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler

20| “Overpack. It’s why suitcases have wheels now.” –Unknown

21| “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” – Britney Spears

22| “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.”-Charles M. Schulz

23| “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” – Mercedes Lackey

24| “People complain there’re delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years”- Louis C.K.

25| “Traveling 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 Teran

26| “Any time you fly somewhere, don’t pay your credit card bill. If the plane crash lands, those people will never stop looking for you.” -Kelkulus

27| “Me: I want to travel more. Bank account: like, to the park?”- Unknown

28| “Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything!” –Steve Martin

29| “I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.” – Unknown

30|“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.” – Orson Welles

31| “I don’t want a house. I just want to travel and pet a lot of dogs.” 

32| “No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzai

33| “There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane. Either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do.” – Rich Jeni

34| “The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.” –Dave Barry

35| “How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to everyone?” – George Roberts

36| “I’m getting tired of waking up and not being on the beach .”-Unknown

37| “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener

38| “Imagine being on a plane and NOT eating every item presented to you as if you will never again have ready access to food in your life.” – Jia Tolentino

39| “When I go To Travel, I changed my password to incorrect. So whenever I forget my password, the login tells me, the password is incorrect.”-Unknown

Funny Travel Instagram Captions

40| “Catch flights not feelings.” -Unknown 

41| “I want to live in the world where searching for plane tickets burns calories.”- Unknown

42| “High five if you don’t know what you’re doing with your life and just want to travel the world.”- Unknown 

43| “You can’t make everyone happy. You are not a plane ticket.”- Unknown

44|  “TIP: You won’t get the holiday blues if you just keep booking holidays.”- Unknown

45| “Procrastapacking (n.) the act of thinking about packing a suitcase instead of actually doing it.”- Unknown

46| “Airports: the only place where drinking at 8 AM is socially acceptable.”- Unknown

47| “Running to the gate is my cardio.”- Unknown

48| “Work hard, travel harder.” -Unknown

49| “If you had to choose between true love or traveling the world, which country would you visit first?- Unknown

50| “A plane ticket is the answer. Who cares what the question is.”-Unknown

51| “Me traveling. Person: “Un cafe?” Me: “Oui.” Person: “Sucre.” Me: “Non.” Person: “You speak very good French.” Me: “Gracias.”-Unknown

52| “Tripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any travel trips currently booked.”- Unknown

53| “Suitcases are for princesses!”- Unknown

54| “Travessed (n.) An obsession with travel. When all you talk or think about is your past or future trips.” -Unknown

55| “People having babies…and I’m like: What country am I going to next?”-Unkown

56| “Go to work. Open computer. Scroll for plane tickets for 6 hours. Close computer. Go home.” -Unknown. 

57| “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine!”-Unknown

58| “Work tip: stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Go to the airport. Get on a plane. Never return.”- Unknown

59| “Yeah, working is great…but have you tried traveling.”- Unknown

60| “All you need is  love  a passport.”- Unknown

61| “Life goal: Create a life that people assume you have anyway based on your Instagram account!”-Unknown

62| “Reality called so I hung up.”- Unknown

63| “A change of latitude would help my attitude.”- Unknown

64| “If at some point you don’t ask yourself “What have I gotten myself into?” then you’re not doing it right. – Roland Gau

65| I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe. – Jon Ronson

66| “I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m on the road to the airport.” – Anonymous

67| “ I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

68| “Work, save, travel, repeat.” -Unknown

69| “The best way to know a city is to eat it.” – Scott Westerfeld

70| “”Traveling is like a box of chocolates. Don’t matter what you get, all is good!”-Unknown

71| “I would totally give up travel, but I’m not a quitter.” – Anonymous

72| “I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”-Caskie Stinnett

73| “ Have you ever stopped to think, maybe travel is addicted to me?”- Unknown.

74| “Screw the caviar, I want to travel the world!” –Unknown

75| “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain.”– Jack Kerouac

76| “If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I’m a size window seat in plane tickets.” – Anonymous

77| “Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world.” – Unknown

Funny Vacation Quotes

78| “All I want for Christmas is you forever vacation.”- Unknown

79| “Me getting ready for vacation: manicure and pedicure, buy new Sephora products, spray tan, get waxed, get hair done, work out for a month, live off kale and veggies, try on 30K swimsuits and cry in dressing rooms. Husband getting ready for vacation: packs a bathing suit, flip-flops, a T-shirt, and calls it a day.”- Unknown 

80| “Be right back…” Just running away from Monday and going straight to the airport. “- Unknown

81| “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben

82| “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” –Russel Baker

83| “It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.” – Anonymous

84| “You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your drivers license”-Unknown

85| “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”- Unknown

86| “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar

87| “I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal.” – Jarod Kintz

88| “I need a vacation of 6 months. Twice a year!” – Unknown

89| “The devil himself had probably redesigned hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.” – Anthony Price

90| “My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.” – Gary Allan 

91| “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 everything.”Me on vacation: *orders fancy drinks, rides a jetski, goes skydiving, buys souvenirs for the uncle’s new girlfriend and adopts an alpaca.*”- Unknown

Funny Vacation Captions

92| “I need a vacation so long that I forget my passwords!” -Unknown

93| “Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not.”-Unknown 

94| “I haven’t worn these trousers since I bought them. I should definitely pack them for my 3 day vacation. Just in case.” – Unknown

95| “I can’t afford vacation, so I am just going to drink until I  don’t know where I am.”- Unknown

96| “Life is a trip, plan your next vacation.” – Matthe Fryer

97| “Ladies, imagine this. It’s 15 years from now, and you have no kids. You’re the cool wine aunt that occasionally comes back to the country for a brief visit before leaving for another long exotic vacation. You have no commitments, and a suspicious amount of money.”- Unknown

98| “Live a life you don’t need a vacation from.”- Unknown 

99| “I need a holiday. And by “holiday” I mean I need to move away and find a job. On the beach . With cocktails. “ – Unknown

100| “There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.” Unknown

101| “Vacation calories don’t count, right?”- Unknown

102|“I need a vacation, not a stupid weekend.”- Unknown

103| “My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.” – Nina Arianda

104| “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle

105| “ I’ve got 99 problems. But I am on vacation and I am ignoring them all! “-Unknown

Funny Quotes About Traveling With Friends

106|  “You and me, we are more than friends. We are like a small travel gang!”- Unknown

107|  “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” – Unknown

108| “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”– Leigh Hunt “Only the people you don’t know well enough seem normal. Every person you know well enough is odd, weird and different. This is called friendship!”- Unknown

109| “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend and go.”- Unknown

110| “ I need a friend I can call in the middle of the night, tell him we have to leave, and the only sentence coming back is “when do we leave?“- Unknown 

111| “ I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” –Mark Twain

112| “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”- Unknown

113| “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine“There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.”- Unknown

114| “Let’s always vacay together.”- Unknown

115| “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” -Charles Schultz

116| I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m going. Are you coming with me?”- Unknown

117|  “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and thirst for adventure.”- Unknown

118| “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”- Unknown

119| “Friend: Let’s go to Bora Bora. Me: Man, I wanna go, but I’m pora pora.”-Unknown

Funny Road Trip Quotes

120| “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld

121| “I wish that road trips could pay my bills.” –Unknown

122|“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

123| “Life is beautiful if you are on the road somewhere.”- Orhan Pamuk

124| “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”- Babs Hoffman

125| “On the road again…”- Unknown

126| “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”-Emile Ganest

127| “Let’s go on a road trip.”- Unknown

128| “Road trips require a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes – oh, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay

129| “It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to go.” – John Green

130| “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”-George Carlin

Funny Travel Quotes From Movies

131| “Adventure is out there.” – Up

132| “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

133| “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”- Me Before You

134| “I want adventure in the great, wide somewhere.”- Into The Wild

135| “The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.”- The Hobbit

136| “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

137| “We travel just to travel.” – The Motorcycle Diaries

138| “Adventure waits for no one.” – The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

Short Funny Travel Quotes

139| “Jet lag is for amateurs.” –Unknown

140| “I just need a large coffee, a plane ticket and a bag full of cash. “- Unknown

141| ”Can we just skip to the part in my life where I travel the world?”- Unknown

142| “Don’t be a tourist, be a traveler.” – Unknown

143| “If traveling was free, BYE!”

144| “I’ve got a crush on the world.-Unknown

145| “If an ass goes traveling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

146| “I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.”-Unknown

147| “If traveling was free, you would never see me again.”-Unknown

148| “Buy the ticket, take the ride.”- Unknown

149| “People don’t take trips – trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

150| “The journey, not the arrival, matters.” – T.S. Eliot

151| “I love my job only when I’m on vacation.”- Unknown

152| “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

153| “Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.” – Jim Gaffigan

154| “When in doubt, travel.”- Unknown

155| “I regret traveling said nobody ever!”- Unknown

156| ”I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” –Bob Hope

157| ”Education is important. But travel is importanter!”-Unknown

158| “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” – Unknown

159| “Backpacking is money spent on education.” –Unknown

160| “Good things come to those who book flights.”-Unknown

161| “If traveling was free, you would never see me again.”-Unknown

162| “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

Funny Cruise Quotes

163| “Time to get ship faced.”- Unknown

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

165| “I bought my wife a ticket to go on a cruise. It’s no Titanic, but I’m optimistic.”- Unknown

166| “Bad girls don’t drink and drive…they sip and cruise.”- Unknown

167| “Seas the day and book cruise!”- Unknown

168| “On cruise mode!”- Unknown

169| “Cruise is my favorite season.”- Unknown

170| “The main point of a cruise is to eat until you weigh at the same as the boat.” – Maxine Humor

171| “Shipfaced!”- Unknown

172| “I work to support my cruising addiction.”- Unknown

173| “Work sucks, I’m going on a cruise.”- Unknown

174| “People drink on cruises so that they think the swaying is normal.” –Melanie White

175| “Warning! I bought the drink package.”- Unknown 

176| “Is it cruise o’clock yet?”- Unknown

177| “Living life one cruise at a time.”- Unknown

178| “Eat. Sleep. Boat. Repeat.”- Unknown

179| “Only on a cruise ship will you pay hundreds of dollars a day to sleep in a closet.”- Maxine Humor

180| “Let’s keep it classy on the cruise and promise we won’t dare anyone to jump off the ship.”- Unknown

181| “Honey, pack your “fat pants.” We’re going on a cruise!”- Unknown

Funny Family Vacation Quotes

182| “Help me! I’m on a family vacation.”- Unknown

183| “A family that travels together stays together.”- Unknown

184| “Family Vacation (n.) A time for you to remember why your family never spends any time together.” – Unknown

185| “Being on vacation with my family has brought me so much closer to my iPad.”- Unknown

Funny Relatable Quotes About Travel

186| “I wish I was a postcard. For under a dollar, I could travel to any location in the world.” – Anonymous 

187| “My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents happening in places I’m about to visit.”- Unknown

188| “Me: I’m not going to overpack this time. Inner me: I need this. I will need that as well. I need everything.

189| “A passport holder sounds like a great idea until you get to the airport and have to remove it 4 billion times.”- Unknown

190| “By 35, if I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the aunt who’s always traveling and comes to family events tipsy.”- Unknown

191|“Packs 2 hours before leaving for a trip. Unpacks 3 months after coming home.”

192| “Some people spending their life searching for “the one.” I’m just searching for the one good travel deal.”-Unknown

193| “Me: triple checked packing list Also me: *forgets underwear, contact solution, and favorite chapstick*”- Unknown

194| “So, do I live out of a suitcase for the next month? Do I unpack just to repack again? Do I put my toothbrush back in the bathroom? I’m a visitor in my own house what the heck.”- Unknown

195| “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.- Unknown

196| “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” -The Dalai Lama

197| “My parents complain I travel too much. I mean, I could be a drug addict, do they realize how lucky they are?” –Unknown

198| “Do you ever stress about money and then accidentally book another flight?”- Unknown

199| “At the end of the day…I’d rather like to have a lot of stories to tell, then a full bank account.”

200| “Nothing says ‘vacation’ like spending $72 on food and booze at the airport before even reaching your destination.” – Ashley Fern

201| “How can people my age plan  spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel.”-Unknown

202| “Going on a trip. Need about 5 outfits. I’ve packed 35 just to be safe.” – Unknown

203| “My favorite thing to pack on trips are all the clothes I never wear at home and then find fun, flirty and exciting ways to not wear them while I’m away.” – Adam Rippon

204| “My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I’m thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.” – Dennis Miller

205| “The airport is a lawless place. 7 am? Drink a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost 17$.” – Alyssa Limperis

206| “I just want to travel the world, overspend at IKEA and drink coffee while cuddling puppies.”- Unknown

207| “My favorite memory from childhood is my parents paying for my holidays.” – Unknown

208| “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

209| “I love when people say “just quit your job and travel.” Taking an Uber from the bar to my home is the only travel I can afford.”- Unknown

210| “Please remain seated until we’ve reached the gate, then feel free to stand hunched over weirdly sideways for 15 minutes while we do whatever.” – ContritePerson

211| “The temptation to go to the airport, buy a one way ticket, leave the country and live on my own has never been so real.” – American Nomad

212| “You want to know what it’s like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don’t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breathe your own air over and over and over.” –Lewis Black

213| “You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” – Paul Theroux

214| “When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to disassemble a bomb? They take it and they’re like, ‘What do I do … I don’t really … ha-huh …’ Yeah, it’s the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!”-Dane Cook

215| “Stuck somewhere between “I need to save” and “you only live once.” – Unknown

216| “Normal life: Wears the same top every day for a week. Packing for 3-day vacation: I’ll probably change a few times a day so I’ll take 21 tops.”- Unknown

217| “If you think adventure is dangerous try routine, it’s lethal.” -Paulo Coelho

218| “Everyone is getting pregnant, engaged or getting married. I just wanna lose weight and travel.”- Unknown

Funny Travel Quotes & Funny Travel Captions Conclusion 

I hope you enjoyed this extensive list of funny travel quotes I compiled for you. Did these funny travel quotes tickle your fancy? Let me know which funny travel captions were your favorite? If you have a hilarious quote, leave it in the comments below. No need to let it waste. I will mix it in with the other funny travel quotes with credit!

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20 Comments

Love this quotes! They’re super unique.

Thank you Bliss, glad you enjoyed them 🙂

Haha these gave me a laugh, I especially love 98! Thanks so much for sharing!

Hello Jasmine. I am glad they gave you a good laugh!

Some fantastic quotes here! I definitely laughed aloud at some of these! My personal favourite is always “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” I’m not sure how those machines manage to make me look SO bad in the photo, but it is definitely an accurate representation of how I look when I get off a plane!

Hi Hannah! I am so happy you enjoyed the quotes. That is a good one. They make me look bad too! lol

These quotes are so cute! And there are so many I haven’t heard before -they kept me entertained for a while! Thanks for putting a smile on my face 🙂

I am so happy I could put a smile your face Coni. I love funny travel quotes and so thrilled you enjoyed them.

These are great for a giggle!!

Thanks so much for reading Roshni! Glad they gave you a giggle 🙂

Love a good travel quote 🙂 The one about the airport being a lawless place… so true. haha thanks for sharing 🙂

So true Lora. The airport is a lawless place lol!

These are great. I love a good quote but the funny ones are the best. Awesome list!

Thank you so much Emma. So happy you enjoyed them!

Thank you for sharing. This put a smile on my face 🙂

So glad you enjoyed them!

I love love love this list, it is so great for my travel photo books!

Oh travel books are soooo much fun! I am sure you have a nice one Rebecca!

Fun collection of quotes. #31 about not wanting a house, just to travel and pet a lot of dogs – that could have been said by one of my daughters.

Hi Rhonda! I feel the exact same way as your daughter. She sounds wise! Thanks for reading!

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100 Solo Travel Quotes & Viral Instagram Captions

Catchy captions that are 125-150 characters in length get more likes and comments on Instagram. 

Using these rules, I’ve put together a list of 100 quotes about traveling alone that will have your solo travel Instagram posts popping off!

After something funny, feminine, or inspirational? Maybe it’s your first time traveling alone? This list includes solo travel quotes for every situation!

The 10 Best Traveling Alone Quotes

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100 Solo Travel Quotes and Instagram Captions

I read through 100s and 1000s of solo travel quotes, phrases and saying whilst putting together this list. Out of all of them, I think these are the 10 best quotes about traveling alone.

Not only do these quotes capture how important it is to travel alone – they are short and sweet (perfect for Instagram)!

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau (Naturalist and philosopher)

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” Thomas Jefferson (President of the US)

“He travels the fastest who travels alone.” Rudyard Kipling (Author)

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” Buddha (Religious Teacher)

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself” Haruki Murakami (Author)

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” Daphne du Maurier (Author)

“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” Liberty Hyde Bailey (Horticulturist)

“Life on the open road is the essence of freedom.” Isabelle Eberhardt (Explorer and author)

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” G.K. Chesterton (Writer)

“To travel happily, you must travel light. And to travel light, you must travel alone.” Nomadic Yak

There have been many amazing female explorers and travel writers throughout history. But only a few have left memorable quotes about traveling alone as a woman.

These solo female travel quotes are both fun and inspiring – perfect for creating powerful Instagram captions!

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” Mae West (Actress)

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” Roman Payne (Novelist and poet)

“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.” Eda LeShan (Author)

“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” Norma Shearer (Actress)

“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.” Elizabeth Gilbert (Author of Eat, Pray, Love)

“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” Barbara De Angelis (Relationship Consultant)

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.” Elizabeth Gilbert (Author of Eat, Pray, Love)

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” Cheryl Strayed (Author of Wild)

“It isn’t the details of my travels that intrigue them; it’s the fact that I am living a rich, fulfilling life. And I’m doing it without a man.” Rita Gelman (Author of Tales of a Female Nomad)

“A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity” Lauren Klarfeld (Travel Writer)

Traveling alone isn’t always adventure and excitement – there are also a lot of laughs along the way. Use these funny solo travel quotes to caption the humorous moments on your solo trip!

“Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” Anthony Bourdain (Celebrity chef and travel documentarian)

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” Mark Twain (Author)

“He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.” Tim Winton (Author)

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.” Paul Cezanne (French Artist)

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” David Mitchell (Author)

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” A.J. Hartley (Author)

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” Harun Yahya (Religious Cult Leader)

The tan will fade and the dirt will wash away, but the memories will last forever Unknown

An adventure each day keeps the doctor away Unknown

“Everyone’s out here getting married. I can’t even find a travel partner!” Unknown

Nervous about traveling alone for the first time? Excited to hit the road and experience independence?

Calm your nerves and get inspired with these quotes about your first solo trip!

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock” Erica Jong (Author)

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu (Philosopher)

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” Holly Morris (Filmmaker)

“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind” C.S. Lewis (Author)

“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 (Author)

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it.” Jhumpa Lahiri (Author)

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life” Michael Palin (Actor)

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” David McCullough Jr (English Teacher)

“A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.” John A. Shedd (Author)

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” Anna Quindlen (Author)

“Although you travel alone, you’re rarely ever lonely. Your companions are like-minded travelers seeking the same things as you” Nomadic Yak

Taking a long drive on your lonesome? Snapped all the sights, streets and sunsets with a camera?

Caption all those Instagram posts with these solo road trip quotes!

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” Angela Blount (Author)

“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.” Elisabeth Berg (Author)

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between.” David Baldacci (Novelist)

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” Jack Kerouac (Author)

“Just me, the road and my ride” Nomadic Yak

Quotes About Wanting to Travel Alone

Dreaming of taking a solo trip around the world? Maybe climbing Machu Picchu? Diving the Great Barrier Reef? Taking a safari in Africa? Road-tripping across the USA?

These quotes are for anyone saying ‘I want to travel alone’!

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” Mandy Hale (Author)

“Solo travel is an investment in yourself.” Unknown

“If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!” Unknown

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” Walt Whitman (Poet)

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” Elizabeth Gilbert (Journalist)

“Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.” Francis Shenstone (Travel Author)

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.” Haruki Murakami (Author)

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)

“Your path is yours alone. And if it’s the path less traveled, that’s absolutely fine. The world doesn’t need more conformists. The world needs more people who create and question and search.” Laird Hamilton (Surfer)

“Some journeys can be only travelled alone!” Ken Poirot (Author)

Quotes About the Experience of Travelling Alone

These quotes let you know what it feels like when you travel alone. Because it can be tricky trying to express the experience of travelling alone!

“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.” John Muir (Mountaineer)

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” Neil Gaiman (Author)

“I will never be content with a sedentary life. I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” Isabelle Eberhardt (Author)

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” Pascal Mercier (Author)

“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” Jack Kerouac (Author)

“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 (Author)

“The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story.” Ted Conover (Author)

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” Charlotte Eriksson (Author)

“I am seated here. Alone. A thousand miles away from everybody. But if I have myself and my sanity, I’ve got nothing else to lose.” Michael Bassey Johnson (Author)

“It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancholies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.” Gustave Flaubert (Author)

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” George Augustus Moore (Author and poet)

Quotes About Loving to Travel Alone

Want to show the world how much you love to travel alone? Here are the best quotes about enjoying solo trips!

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” Freya Stark (Explorer and travel writer)

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” Henry Rollins (Singer)

“I like being alone when there’s no one around. It’s a nice freedom to be the only one there, humming and coping, following my impulse” Jill Frayne (Author)

“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” Rita Golden Gelman (Travel writer)

“When you’re (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” Shauna Niequist (Author)

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” Storm Jameson (Journalist)

“If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” Gina Greenlee (Travel Author)

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” Isabelle Eberhardt (Explorer and author)

“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R Tolkien (Author)

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine (Saint)

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu (Philosopher)

Inspirational Quotes About Traveling Alone

First-time solo travelers have all sorts of worries about traveling alone. Is it weird to travel alone ? Is traveling alone boring ? Is solo travel sad and lonely ?

Let’s get you motivated! Here are the 10 most inspirational quotes for traveling alone!

“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” Paul Theroux (Travel Writer)

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” Roman Payne (Novelist and poet)

“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 (Novelist and poet)

“The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, “Why, it is life.” Emily Hahn (Journalist)

“And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future” Alison Singh Gee (Journalist)

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller (Author)

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” John Mayer (Musician)

“Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.” John Muir (Mountaineer)

“I would not suffer anyone to endure the path I walk. My road must always be traveled alone.” Julie Kagawa (Author)

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

Quotes About Traveling Solo to Find Yourself

There are many advantages to solo travel. However, one of the biggest benefits of traveling alone is discovering who you really are and what you’re truly capable of.

If you want to do some self-reflecting, here are the 10 best quotes about traveling solo to find yourself.

“You travel alone to lose your ways and find yourself.” Nomadic Yak

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others” Alain de Botton (Author)

“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 (Celebrity chef and travel documentarian)

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustave Flaubert (Author)

“As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover the more we lose ourselves.” Haruki Murakami (Author)

“Traveling alone makes you vulnerable to being moved by things.” Marlowe Granados (Author)

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” Pico Iyer (Essayist)

“Traveling alone, you get to be whoever you want. I don’t mean lie. I mean you get to be a blank slate. You can’t leave behind your skin color, or your height, or the handsomeness or homeliness of your face. But you can leave your story behind.” Jedidiah Jenkins (Travel Writer)

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” Pablo Holmberg (Artist)

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” Paulo Coelho (Lyricist)

“Becoming free is learning about yourself; the scared and the insecure, the brilliant and the bold. Embrace both and the journey is yours and yours alone. No longer are you following another’s directions and your path and purpose will present themselves.” Riitta Klint (Artist)

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” Terry Pratchett (Author)

You’re now armed with 100 quotes about traveling alone that you can use as solo travel Instagram captions. But what if you want even more?

Goodreads is one of the best resources for finding quotes about traveling alone. Simply use the search function to search for solo travel quotes from your favorite authors.

You could also be a bit cheeky and use captions and quotes that other Instagrammers have already used on their solo trips. Search on Instagram for hashtags such as #solotravel or #travelalone to find popular, funny and inspirational solo trip quotes.

4 Solo Travel Social Media Tips

Using solo travel Instagram captions will help you to get more likes and comments on your posts. However, here are some extra social media tips to boost your engagement even more!

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Use solo travel hashtags

When you include a hashtag in your solo travel Instagram captions or stories, your post will appear when users search for that hashtag. This can help you reach an audience that is interested in your solo travel content. 

When posting photos and stories of your solo trip, be sure to use popular solo travel hashtags such as #travelalone #solotravel #backpacker #wanderlust or #adventure.

Tag your location

Instagram posts with a tagged location get 79% more engagement than posts without a tagged location. 

So wherever you are on your solo trip, tag your location before writing a caption with one of the solo travel quotes above. 

Caption length

According to a study by Hootsuite , longer Instagram captions (90-130 words) tend to get more likes and comments than shorter captions (2-10 words).

However, Influencer Marketing Hub suggests that because Instagram is a visual medium, you should try to limit your captions to 125-150 characters.

If some of the above quotes about traveling alone seem too long for your Instagram posts, you may want to cut them down to just a sentence or two. Or put a twist on a quote to make it your own.

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31 Solo Travel Quotes (to push your confidence taking a journey on your own)

The hardest part about solo travel is the beginning. It’s getting used to it. We collected a bunch of awesome solo travel quotes – for male and female travel.

This list of journey along quotes is hopefully a big push for you in the right direction.

There is no need to be afraid, again the hardest part is the beginning of solo travel. In case you need a bit of motivation, a push, a boost, this is for you.

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Why travel Solo?

The question should really be, why wouldn’t you travel solo?! The only answer to that is that you should.

Ok let’s get serious here… why solo travel?

For one thing, solo travel allows you to do what you want, when you want – there’s no need to double check with a friend, or argue over where to go next. Your itinerary is completely your own! There is ultimate freedom in moving at your own pace. Not to mention the amount of people you’re bound to meet along the way, including many other solo travellers of all ages, sexes and backgrounds.

Learn about yourself, overcome challenges, grow as a person, set your own budget, learn to listen to your gut.. and on an on it goes.

Travelling solo is a wonderful way to move toward self-responsbility, using wordly experiences to redefine the way you live life. Seriously, do not let anyone tell you that it’s weird to travel alone!

Besides, solo travel has become so much easier these days thanks to awesome hostels around the world. The 5 star hostels certainly know how to accommodate solo adventurers.

Skip to our Hostels for Solo-Traveler section to find out why you should consider staying in hostels on your solo travels.

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Psst! Many of the Hostelgeeks team members are avid (addicted?) solo travellers. True story! Between us, we’ve solo-travelled every corner of the globe over many consecutive years.

Along the way, we’ve put together in-depth guides to the “ Best Hostels in… “, explored until our feet almost dropped off to create awesome city guides and collected all of the essential travel resources you’re going to need to explore the world.

Trust us when we say: SOLO TRAVELLING IS LIFE CHANGING!

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We collected even more for you. Just click on the photo to get all the quotes:

List of great Solo Trip Quotes

If you are looking for a solo travel Instagram captions, you are in the right place. Let us get started and dive right into the world of traveling alone and embrace new experiences:

1. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”

2. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

3. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!”

4. “A traveler should be happy, not perfect!”

5. “Sail away from the safe harbor.”

6. “Being a solo traveler made me an adult!”

7. “Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost!”

8. “Traveling solo made me a stronger person!”

9. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”

10. “Traveling the world on my own made me more confident. I am me now!”

11. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

12. “If you never go, you will never know!”

13. “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a life time!”

Getting to know you Quotes about Traveling Alone

14. “Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!”

15. “Smile for life, not only for the photo!”

16. “Travel far enough to meet yourself!”

17.”Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

18. “Go solo, go far!”

19. It is better to see something once, than to hear about hundred times.

– Russian Proverb

20. In the end, we only regret the chances we did not take

21. Solo Travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone. It also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations. – Suzy Strutner

22. “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage, and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

23. Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to enjoy it.

24. Solo Travel is all about exploring the world and one’s own-self.

25. I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

26. As you travel solo,  totally responsible for yourself, it is inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.

27. If I would have waited for someone else to join me on my travels, I would still be waiting.

Solo Travel Quotes for Confidence

Confidence plays a big role when deciding whether you want to travel on your own – or not. We cannot take this decision for you, but this is certain: you will boost your confidence to high level when going to travel the world on your own. Here’s more quotes for travelling alone.

And certainly, you will be kicking off your travels solo, but you won’t be alone. Stay in cool hostels, meet new people. You will not be travelling alone in the end. But, it takes courage to take the first step. Find out more quotes about travelling alone.

28. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

29. “Grow up and Travel Solo. It will make you stronger, more independent, more action-taking. It will change the way other people see you.” – Hostelgeeks

30. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”

31. “Travelling Solo will replace thousands of motivational books.” – Hostelgeeks

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Discover and share female traveller qoutes in your social media accounts!

32. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

33. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.” –Kein Poirot

34. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha

35. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

36. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” –David Mitchell

Funny Travel Solo Quotes

I don’t know about you but we want to have some fun! We hope you find your best-loved quote for travelling!

38. I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.

39. Backpacking is money spent on Education.

40. I need a vacation so long, I forget all my passwords!

41. Work tip: Stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Go to the airport. Get on a plane. Never return.

42. Yeah, working is great…but have you tried travelling.

43. Life is short. Call in sick and book that last minute flight.

44. I feel like most of my work problems could be solved with a trip to…anywhere.

45. I googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.

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You can download all quotes about solo travel right here or click on the photo below.

You can use it to print your own t-shirts, create some DIY home decoration of gifts for traveler friends.

Wait, there is more…much more!

Is it weird to travel solo.

No, it is not. Today it is normal for both boys and girls travel solo. It can mean freedom and getting out of the comfort zone. Solo Travel can boost your confidence to a level you did not know existed. This list of quotes for solo travel will give you a boost.

Which place is best for solo trip?

For us, the best destinations for solo-travel include Spain, Italy, Portugal, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mexico, and Costa Rica.

How do I meet solo travelers?

The best way to meet other people when travelling solo is by staying in hostels. Read our complete guide on how to make friends in hostels and how to stay safe .

Travelling solo is liberating and full of adventures. We don’t want to miss that opportunity. Travel more! Take pictures from everywhere and use our collection of solo ride quotes. 

This list is by no means a complete list. But, we would love to have a complete list. It should be as useful, as motivational as possible.

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Smile for life not for photos :))) Nice thank you for article. Tomas

amazing Article, Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful and inspirational quotes for anyone that conseders to travel solo but is still hasitating! Thank you for sharing.

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55+ Astounding Solo Travel Quotes to Make You Want to Travel Alone

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Setting out on a solo trip can change your perspective on life. Traveling on your own, no new experience is out of the question, and you’re free to change plans anytime you need them to. And while we can hardly think of anything better, traveling alone is something that many dream about or are too scared to undertake.

Perhaps you’re looking to start your own solo journey, need the motivation to keep going, or are just curious about the possibilities solo travel brings. In any case, I have compiled together a list of the best quotes about solo travel to fit any aspect.

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Motivational & Inspirational Solo Travel Quotes

Being alone in a strange new city is not only exhilarating, but it can also be nerve-wracking at the same time. But, solo travel has the power to transform your self-confidence and alter the course of your life. In fact, you might find yourself doing things you might have never thought were possible. You just have to find the motivation to take that first step.

So, here are a few of my favorite quotes to motivate and inspire you to travel solo, at least once in your life.

1. “Life is too short and the world is too wide. The sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

2. “Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” — Steven Aitchison

3. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” — Unknown

4. “There’s no right or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should try it at least once in their life.” — Susan Moore

5. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” —

6. “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer

7. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” — Storm Jameson

8. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Anne Radmacher

Quotes on Finding Strength Through Solo Travel

If you talk to just about any solo traveler, you’ll hear that traveling alone is an ideal time to heal from past traumas and reflect on the future. Best of all, you’re not on the world’s timeline. Traveling by yourself gives you all the time you need to think. You’ll likely find a strength in yourself you didn’t know was there, too!

If you are ever feeling uncertain about your decision to travel alone, take a look back at quotes about finding strength via solo travel.

9. “Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before that know they can do it.” — Amy Dochler

10. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” — Margret Shepard

11. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But, always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” — Pablo Holmberg 

12. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman

13. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diane von Furstenburg 

14. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.” — Unknown 

15. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write in your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.” — Shauna Niequist

16. “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.” — Jodi Hills 

Short Solo Travel Quotes

A few simple words can make a big difference. Really, one small sentence can change everything! Best of all, words can be inspiring. And sometimes, all a person needs to follow their dreams is a little inspiration.

This section is all about solo travel quotes that are short and sweet to the point. Get inspired!

17. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

18. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” — Paul Theroux 

19. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

20. “I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” — Elizabeth Lim 

21. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

22. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

23. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.” — Unknown

24. “You are never too old to start traveling solo.” — Susan Moore 

25. “ Go Solo. Go far .”  — Susan Moore

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Solo Female Travel Quotes

It takes a lot of courage to venture out into the world alone, let alone as a woman. While it can be daunting if you haven’t done it before, traveling solo as a female is one of the most freeing experiences ever! Doing what you set out to do will raise your self-esteem. Plus, you’ll realize you can do anything you set your mind to, regardless of what the rest of the world thinks. 

Let’s review some of our favorite quotes on the solo female traveler.

26. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” — Roman Payne

27. “They say that travel broadens the mind and opens a person up to different cultures and new experiences. This is certainly true, and if you’re a woman traveling alone, even more so. It takes inner strength coupled with a sense of adventure to travel solo, yet it can be one of life’s most rewarding experiences.” — Unknown

28. “ Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.” — Nico J. Genes 

29. “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  

30. “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” — Virginia Woolf

31. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” — Norma Shearer 

32. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirts that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.” — Oprah Winfrey  

Quotes about the Solo Travel Journey & Experience

It goes without saying that traveling by yourself is different from taking a trip with others. For instance, you travel at your own pace, set your daily schedule, choose your activities, and are wholly responsible for yourself. You are also able to interact with locals and other travelers, rather than keep to your friends or family.

Read on for the best solo journey quotes. You’ll quickly learn how traveling solo shows you a lot about yourself, what you’re capable of, and changes your perspective on the world — and the people in it.

33. “Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta

34. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale

35. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson 

36. “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

37. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” — Suzy Strutner 

38. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau 

39. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” — Grace Lichtenstein

Funny Quotes About Traveling Alone

Traveling solo isn’t always easy, so we advise you to keep an open mind and expect the unexpected! Keep in mind, some of the best stories come from accidents. Without a doubt, there are bound to be one or two experiences that you’ll laugh at for years to come.

Keep scrolling to read some of the funniest quotes on solo travel.

40. “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” — Ray Bradbury

41. “The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said “Why it is life.” — Emily Hahn

42. “The impulse to travel alone is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” — Agnes Repplier

43. “It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” — David Hewson 

44. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” — Brenna Smith 

45. “ When you’re trying to save money for a house, but end up with a one-way ticket to some tropical island…” — Unknown 

Best Quotes & Captions on Traveling Alone for Instagram

Of course, you’re likely going to document your solo adventure on social media — or maybe in a journal just for you! Nonetheless, our friends, family, and sometimes followers we don’t even know, want to know what we’re up to and how they can also travel by themselves.

 Scroll down for some witty solo travel captions for Instagram.

46. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” — Unknown

47. “Travel far enough to meet yourself.” — Unknown

48. “The question isn’t who is going to let me it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand 

49. “To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself.” — Yes- Dag Hammarskjold

50. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.” — Unknown

51. “Travel makes one modest. YOu see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

52. “Just go.” — Unknown 

53. “If you are waiting for someone to go with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” — Unknown 

54. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Erica Jon

There you have it — our favorite quotes about traveling alone. Although solo travel can be daunting, it’s so worth it!

We truly hope these quotes — and this blog, for that matter — have inspired you to book a ticket for solo travel. It’s time to see what you can really accomplish out there in the world. I promise it’s more than you think.

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Solo Travel Quotes – 45+ Awesome Quotes About Solo Travel That Will Inspire You!

Posted on Last updated: January 8, 2022

It’s no secret that I love travel quotes. Whether it’s a funny pun or an inspirational quote from a cool travel movie that makes me want to pack my bags, I love reading epic travel quotes.

They always give me something to think about, and they fuel my constant wanderlust.

Recently I’ve been debating whether to go on a solo trip or not, and I found myself looking for quotes about solo travel to help inspire and sway my decision.

In this article I decided to put together all the coolest solo travel quotes that I found, in the hope that you will also find them inspirational. They definitely did make me feel like I was ready to go on my first solo trip!

I couldn’t help but pair these awesome solo travel quotes with epic travel photos, just to fuel your wanderlust that little bit more!

So without further ado, let’s dive in and discover the best quotes about travelling solo!

Inspirational quotes about travelling alone

I simply had to start this article with inspirational quotes. These are the ones excite me the most, and genuinely get me to reflect on my life and travels.

Reading adventurous quotes is one of my favourite things to do at home when I’m not travelling , and I hope you’ll love these ones as much as I do.

1. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

This quote about solo travel summarises perfectly the beauty and convenience of it. Not having someone to travel with is one of the most common reasons I hear as to why people think they can’t travel.

If you head into the adventure solo, you don’t have to wait for anyone!  

2. “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha

3. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

Being alone can be extremely daunting, until you experience it and realise it gives you plenty of opportunities to reflect on yourself and grow. Once you get over the initial fear, I’m sure you’ll love it!

That’s why I love this solo travel quote (which features also amongst my favourite travel quotes ), because it’s a great reminder that being alone doesn’t have to be scary.

4. “If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

5.  “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

It’s no doubt that travel teaches you a lot . If you travel alone, all those lessons and experiences will be intensified, as you will find yourself having to face any upcoming challenges alone.

6. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

As someone who quit a safe 9-5 job to travel the world and blog about it, this is a great daily reminder. You don’t have to explain your actions to anyone but yourself.

7. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” – Alain de Bottom

I couldn’t agree more with this quote about travelling alone. We often don’t realise just how much of our behaviour is shaped by the people who surround us. Not necessarily in a bad way, but there is an influence nonetheless.

Alain de Bottom’s words have been turned into many inspiring life and travel movies . If you’re looking for inspirational words, he’s a great place to go.

8. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

9. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

10 . “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

11. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.

I included this quote also amongst the best hiking quotes , and for good reason. It’s a great reminder that you shouldn’t be doing this just to prove yourself to others, but to expand your own horizons.

This is especially true when it comes to experiences like solo travel.

12. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown

13. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” – Unknown

If these quotes don’t inspire you to solo travel, I don’t know what will! Solo travel is a challenge. It will be scary, but if you truly want to know your limits, there is no better way to challenge yourself.

Funny quotes about solo travel

After deep and inspirational quotes, it’s only natural to want to balance that with a bit of fun. These funny solo travel quotes are perfect to lighten the mood.

14. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

15 . “It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” – A.J. Hartley & David Hewson

16 . “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne Du Maurier

17 . “Table for one, food for two, please.” – Unknown

18. “One of the reasons I travel solo: I do not have to share all the delicious food!” – Unknown

Whether it’s a cooking class in Thailand or a tapas tour in Barcelona , you can be sure that this is often my solo travel philosophy when it comes to food!

19 . “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination and a great hostel” – Unknown

20 . “A traveler should be happy, not perfect!” – Unknown

21. “Travelling Solo will replace thousands of motivational books.” – Hostelgeeks  (but if you’re looking for inspiring travel books, check out my suggestions here !)

Short travel alone quotes

Continuing the trend, here are the best short quotes! Long inspirational quotes are great, but if you’re looking for something short and snappy these quotes are for you!

22. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

23 . “Some journeys can be only travelled alone!” – Ken Poirot

24 . “Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

25 . “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

26 . “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

27 . “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.” – Unknown

We spend so much time in our daily lives running around and being busy that we often forget to take time for ourselves. While travelling, we have the opportunity to spend time alone and appreciate ourselves.

28 . “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

29 . “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

30 . “When the traveller goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

Solo journey quotes that are perfect for Instagram

I know what you’re thinking. If you go on a solo trip and don’t share a photo of it, did it really happen?

And you don’t want to caption your epic travel memories with just any cheesy quote, you want an epic travel caption to go with it.

These quotes about solo travel are perfect as captions for any photo, whether it’s of you surfing in Bali , hiking in New Zealand or exploring European cities .

31 . “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

32 . “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

33 . “Traveling solo does not mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

34 . “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

Solo female travel quotes

As a female traveller, I wanted to have a separate section on quotes about solo female travellers. Travelling solo as a female isn’t just about packing the right travel essentials , it goes much deeper than that. And these quotes perfectly capture that.

35 . “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

36 . “Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.” – Nico J. Genes

Sometimes I think this quote has been written for me and the face I have on the morning before flying somewhere.

37 . “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

38 . “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” –  Ayn Rand

39 . “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without travelling.” – Unknown

Epic quotes for solo travellers

I know we’ve had a section on inspirational quotes already, but I thought these epic quotes deserved a section just for them.

Some are inspiring, some are funny, some are romantic but all of them will make you want to set off on a solo adventure.

40 . “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. When 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.” – Hanna Arendt

41 . “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

42 . “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

43 . “Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendour and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.” – Kilroy J. Oldster

44 . “I have travelled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

45 . “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.” – Unknown

This one is also one of my favourite friendship and travel quotes !

46 . “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

This isn’t to say that you won’t learn that if you’re travelling with friends, but travelling solo will push you out of your comfort zone even more and accelerate the process.

Final thoughts on the best quotes about solo travel

There you have it, the ultimate compilation of awesome quotes about solo travel! Are there other solo travel quotes that you think should feature on this list? Let me know in the comments below!

Whether you’re looking for solo travel quotes to help you find the courage to set off on a solo trip, or if you’re looking for the perfect caption for your solo trip photos, I hope this post helps you!

If you’re looking for more quote inspiration, check out this compilation of my favourite quotes about the beach or my favourite Italian quotes !

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50 Best Travel Alone Quotes to Embrace Your Adventure Solo

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These travel alone quotes express all the joys and advantages of solo travel. While taking a trip with your friends or family can be fun, traveling alone offers its own perks: planning your own schedule, visiting all of the places you’re interested in, and, most importantly, getting to know yourself better.

Whether you’re looking for travel inspiration or a way to sum up your trip, this collection of traveling alone quotes has something for every solo traveler, including short solo travel quotes, solo female travel quotes , and solo travel funny quotes.

Short quotes on traveling alone

Solo travel funny quotes, inspirational solo travelling quotes, solo female travel quotes.

Take the time to read through all these lone traveller quotes so you can find your favorites and save them for the next time you’re planning a solo trip or reminiscing about your last adventure .

These short and sweet solo trip quotes are just what you need for a quick burst of inspiration.

1. “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

This solo journey quote sums up one of the biggest advantages of traveling alone: getting to know yourself better!

2. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

While traveling with others can be quite enjoyable, solo travel can allow you to really appreciate the places you visit and the experiences you have, as this love to travel alone quote reminds us.

3. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

As this vacation alone quote suggests, finding out more about yourself is one of the most important parts of going on an adventure. That’s why traveling alone can be so rewarding.

4. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

As this solo trip quote points out, it can be hard to find a compatible travel partner. It’s better to plan an amazing trip and travel alone than to be stuck with someone you don’t mesh well with.

5. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

This traveling solo quote reminds us to live life to the fullest and make every day an adventure if we can.

6. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

I love how this quote about traveling alone puts a positive spin on being alone in an unfamiliar place, something many people might find scary or intimidating.

7. “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski

When you’re a solo traveler, there’s no one you have to show off to or change your personality for. Being alone means you can just be yourself.

8. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

This lonely traveller quote is a poetic way of expressing a lifetime commitment to travel and adventure. The nomadic lifestyle isn’t for everyone, but those who love it embrace it wholeheartedly.

9. “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

If you’re a solo traveler who gets lost often, this traveling by yourself quote is the one for you! Getting lost doesn’t have to be a bad thing; it can lead to even more fun and exciting adventures.

10. “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

This short solo travel quote sums up one of the most basic reasons for traveling alone: there’s no need to navigate scheduling conflicts! Traveling solo means you can start your trip tomorrow if you want to.

11. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

This solo adventure quote works for just about any person who loves traveling. If you love to travel as much as we do, then you’ll probably agree that traveling is an absolutely priceless experience.

12. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

This solo journey quote shows that any trip involves an internal journey as much as a physical one. Being a solo traveler will, of course, make that internal journey more intense.

13. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

I love this vacation alone quote because I think it’s so accurate: traveling alone does give you, by necessity, the chance to be more introspective and think about your trip.

14. “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

As this solo travel quote suggests, self-discovery is a significant part of traveling alone.

15. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

This lonely traveler quote shows that solo travel may be intimidating, but it could also turn out to be one of the best things you ever do. Why not give it a chance and see how you like it?

As these funny solo travel quotes show, there’s humor to be found in just about every situation, including traveling alone.

16. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

This witty solo female travel quote is perfect for all the solo travelers just trying to satisfy their wanderlust.

17. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

This famous quote about traveling alone captures the excitement and anticipation of planning where to go next.

18. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

No matter how far you travel, you’ll always end up encountering yourself. Hopefully, you’re happy with the self you meet!

19. “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope

As this funny quote about traveling alone points out, your luggage ends up traveling to quite a few places with you. If you check your bags, they’ll even go to places you haven’t been!

20. “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler

There’s nothing quite like cozying up in a luxurious hotel room bed with some room service, and this quote about solo travel sums up that feeling pretty nicely .

The best solo travel quotes will help you develop an appreciation for traveling alone and maybe even inspire you to start planning your next adventure. Check out these inspirational quotes about traveling alone for even more trip-planning motivation.

21. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

This traveling alone quote is a good reminder that there are some journeys we just have to take by ourselves. Whether you take this quote literally and plan a solo trip, or as a metaphor about living life, these are undeniably words of wisdom.

22. “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

This solo traveller quote points out that our journey of discovering the world is a personal one. Fortunately, the more we discover about the world, the less we feel alone.

23. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.” – Henry David Thoreau

One huge benefit of traveling alone is that the only person whose schedule you have to worry about is yours! Take advantage of this freedom so you can go on your trip sooner rather than later.

24. “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

As this vacation alone quote suggests, if you enjoy getting lost in the crowd, then traveling alone is a great option.

25. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

This solo trip quote reminds us that sometimes solitude is a necessity. Make the most of your time alone and try to appreciate the advantages of solo travel.

26. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

This traveling alone quote offers a beautiful metaphor for thinking about life. Every road we travel, whether literal or symbolic, offers some way of finding out more about ourselves.

27. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

This solo adventure quote provides a lovely way of looking at the memories you make when you travel alone.

28. “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

This famous quote about traveling alone is a fantastic reminder that we should try to live life with no regrets. Trying to fulfill as many of our dreams as possible can help ensure that we don’t end up disappointed by what we haven’t done.

29. “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

I love this quote for traveling alone by the legendary Anthony Bourdain. It sums up the beauty and power of travel so perfectly.

30. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

As this travel solo quote points out, traveling alone means you’re not distracted by other people, so you can focus on and truly enjoy the beauty around you.

31. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” – Alain de Botton

As this traveling by yourself quote shows, when we travel with other people, we can be influenced by their opinions and impressions of the places we go. On the other hand, when we travel alone, we have the chance to see a place on our own terms.

32. “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

What’s the use of going on an adventure if you don’t have any good memories and stories to bring back with you? As this traveling alone quote reminds us, adventures can live on forever in our memories.

33. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

This very famous quote about traveling alone is so popular because a book is such an apt metaphor for explaining why traveling is so important.

34. “Some journeys can only be traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

This traveling solo quote cuts right to the chase: sometimes traveling alone really is best!

35. “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” – Gina Greenlee

Sometimes, your favorite part of a trip might not have anything to do with what you see. Instead, you might appreciate something totally intangible and personal .

Solo female travelers often have more to deal with and think about than other travelers, which can make traveling alone seem scary and even dangerous. If you’ve been thinking about traveling alone as a woman, these strong woman travel alone quotes will definitely inspire you to live out your dreams.

36. “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

This solo traveling quote makes a great point that traveling alone can actually be a good way to make new friends. Being by yourself means you’ll seek out new connections and get to meet people from all over the world.

37. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

This traveling alone as a woman quote points out that history’s most famous women have never been the ones who stayed at home and dreamed without putting those dreams into action.

38. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone; it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

As this solo travel quote suggests, traveling alone allows you to find freedom from others’ expectations and, instead, live life on your own terms.

39. “Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

This witty quote about solo female travel makes the perfect caption for photos of a trip around the world.

40. “My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

This quote for traveling alone will probably speak to all of the solo travelers out there who are full of wanderlust, especially since it expresses the spiritual fulfillment that can come from exploring far and wide.

41. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

I love this strong woman travel alone quote because it emphasizes how responsible you are for your own happiness. Ultimately, you’re the one who knows yourself best, so why not take yourself where you’re happiest?

42. “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

This solo female traveler quote points out that going off the beaten path can be a good thing. Take a risk and dare to go where no one else has ever gone.

43. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

This female solo travel quote is a lovely way of saying that solo female travelers can find a home just about anywhere in the world.

44. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Travel involves a lot of beautiful, magical experiences, some of which are so profound that they change our lives forever. These experiences could include everything from seeing the moon or watching the sun rise to looking out over a spectacular landscape.

45. “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

As this solo adventure quote suggests, being alone in a foreign country allows you to escape every part of your everyday life and make the most out of living.

46. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

It can be tempting to panic when something goes wrong while you’re traveling. However, as this vacation alone quote shows, mistakes and mishaps can be the best way to learn and become even more confident.

47. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

The unknown can often be frightening, but this solo journey quote expresses the excitement and anticipation that can also come with not knowing what will happen next. In other words, sit back and enjoy the ride!

48. “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

This travelling alone quote really speaks to me because, like Edith Wharton, I think there are so many amazing people you can meet all over the world. Fortunately, solo travel is the perfect opportunity to meet at least a few of them.

49. “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

As this lonely traveler quote points out, there can be beauty and excitement in getting lost. It’s all part of the adventure!

50. “The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

This lovely quote about traveling alone has a great message: that we have so much in common with our fellow humans around the world. Even if we come from different backgrounds or countries, there will always be something we can share.

I hope these solo trip quotes sparked your wanderlust and inspired you to embark on a solo adventure! They’re also a great way to reflect on any past trips you’ve had.

Let me know in the comments which quote is your favorite (or maybe you have more than one!). If you need even more inspiration, check out these top 100 travel quotes .

Happy solo traveling!

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100+ Wisest Solo Travel Quotes

We all love a good solo travel quote. They ignite a curiosity inside us, inspire us to get up off the couch, and sometimes, give us that push of courage to go!

There are plenty of solo travel quotes floating around the web, from the classics you see on every Instagram feed (“ Not all those who wander are lost” ), to the motivational, philosophical, and super poetic.

But what about the wisest? The travel solo quotes which are thought provoking, which change your mindset, and actually impart wisdom?

Here you’ll find 100+ of our favorites – copy and paste them to social media, share the images to Pinterest, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip. Share this post to inspire others to also travel alone !

After you get some inspiration from these wise solo travel quotes, go to our funny travel quotes article to laugh out loud!

• 1 Solo Travel Quotes to Give You Courage
• 2 Solo Travel Quotes for Inspiration
• 3 Wise Advice (Packaged as a Solo Trip Quote)
• 4 Solo Travel & Personal Growth Quotes
• 5 You’ll Laugh at These Travel Alone Quotes
• 6 Solo Female Travel Quotes
• 7 Quotes About the Solo Travel Experience
• 8 Solo Travelling Quotes You Haven’t Heard Before
• 9 Classic Travel Alone Quotes
• 10 Save These Travel Alone Quotes to Pinterest

Solo Travel Quotes to Give You Courage

#1 “don’t be scared to walk alone. don’t be scared to like it.” — john mayer.

We love this solo travel quote, as taking the first step is most often the scariest part of solo travel. And many people will let fear convince them that it’s OK not to even try, because once they get out into the world, they probably won’t even like it.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

For most solo travelers, that first trip is a liberating experience, though you have to be open to actually enjoying the experience. So we encourage you to not let fear get in the way of actually booking, but also to fully embrace the experience, and not be scared to like it!

#2 “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question” – Harun Yahya

I think all we can say to this is:

#3 “Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good.” – Amy Poehler

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#4 “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks

It’s true – once you’ve made up your mind that you’re going to travel solo, your subconscious accepts that it’s going to happen. You might still experience certain levels of nervousness, excitement, fear, and anxiety in the lead up, but acceptance overwhelmingly diminishes fear.

#5 “One day you’ll wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now”. – Paulo Coelho

We love this solo trip quote, because it encourages everyone to live life to the fullest, and reminds us that none of us are guaranteed ‘someday’.

Don’t plan for ‘someday’.

Plan to live your life now.

#6 “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

#7 “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

Well, do you?

#8 “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

One of the most common questions we’re asked as solo travelers is ‘don’t you get lonely’?

Because this is a big fear many people have of traveling alone (the fear of being alone is a legitimate anxiety disorder called Autophobia /  Monophobia ).

But there’s a certain beauty to being confident, comfortable, and happy in your own company, and if you have a good relationship with yourself, you’ll find that you’re never lonely on the road. For those times when you are, it’s easy enough to meet new people when traveling on your own , which is why this is such a relevant solo travel quote.

#9 “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

It is expected that someone like Elizabeth Gilbert, author of word famous Eat, Pray, Love, thinks this way, and we also agree that a generous dose of conviction in the powers of solo travel is required to take the first step in trip planning .

#10 “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson

Women are often told “don’t do this”, “you can’t travel alone without a man”, “you can’t go to this country because you will not be safe”, etc. Don’t live someone else’s life – live your own.

Research a destination that has what you like and want, prepare and plan for anything that can happen, get travel insurance , follow all the safety precautions and get ready to have a great trip. This quote could not be more applicable to a solo trip!

#11 “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

Helen Keller was spot on with this quote. Many people are afraid to travel solo because they fear it’s unsafe. However most destinations around the world are just as safe as the place you live in, and  you’re just as likely, if not even more likely, to be caught out in a dangerous situation when you’re at home. 

For instance, did you know that falling out of bed claims 450 American lives yearly? Ladders, lawn mowers, and even vending machines are among the mundane, every day objects which can be dangerous – but you don’t avoid buying a chocolate bar because a between two and four people die each year due to vending machine accidents.

While traveling comes with its own risks, it is the fear of the unknown , or xenophobia, that makes us more scared of a solo trip rather than the actual risk of visiting a place which may carry the same dangers as going about our daily life.

If that’s the case, you may as well travel solo. Remember this solo travel quote next time you are considering to go on a trip on your own.

#12 “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

Word. A wise quote perfectly suitable for a solo trip.

#13 “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

It’s true – the more courageous you are to try new things in life, the richer and more fulfilling your life becomes. You have far more possibilities in life when you are open to them, and travel opens the mind like nothing else.

Remember this saying next time you are afraid of doing something, anything, and specifically when booking your next solo trip .

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

We plan to travel, and explore every inch of this beautiful, fascinating, chaotic, and culturally diverse world! 

#15 “Just go” – Every Solo Traveler Ever

Yep, this may not sound like the most complex of our solo travel quotes, but it sure is the one holding the most truth. 

Solo Travel Quotes for Inspiration

#16 “dare to live the life you always wanted” – unknown.

One of the most inspiring of the traveling solo quote (though it applies to many situations in life), be daring, and be brave, build the life of your dreams and make sure that it includes traveling on your own.

#17 “Reality is negotiable” – Unknown

#18 “life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. but rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming …. wow what a ride.” – mark frost.

Going on an adventure can truly feel like this travel quote, and is there a greater adventure than a solo trip? 

#19 “It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.” – Mae Chevrette

It’s true – we’re all capable of embracing adventure, facing our fears, and living our best life. Freedom, flexibility and the ability to do what we want is one of the main reasons we travel solo.

While everybody who lives, will die, not everybody who dies, has lived.

Ponder that for a moment!

#20 “Sometimes, one day in a different place will give you more than 10 years of life at home.” – Anatole France 

This solo travel quote is another of our favorites, because even if you only muster the courage to take a weekend trip alone, just having spent 48 hours outside of your comfort zone can teach you more about both yourself, and the world, than you ever would have otherwise known.

#21 “Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If you asked a die hard traveler to choose between travel, ambition, or love, well…It’d be a tough choice!

As any solo traveler will tell you, their love to traveling independently is as deep as any addiction, which is why we appreciate this solo travel quote so much.

#22 “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

Or in other words, once you’ve seen the sun shine on the other side of the world, once you’ve raised a glass with locals, laughed in a foreign tongue, tasted exotic food, and been exposed to the wonders of the world outside your bubble, you’ll never be content with life as it once was.

When it comes to travel solo quotes we can all relate to, this one explains the feeling of wander and wonder more than any other.

#23 “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

After-all, if you’re so consumed with making sure you don’t run into any hiccups, you’ll probably never end up taking that trip, and that would be a shame.

The very beauty of travel, and very thing which encourages the most personal growth, are the bumps, hiccups, and ‘potholes’ in the road. You learn to find solutions, you prove to yourself that you can overcome any challenges and you grow as a person.

These are also the stories you remember and retell for decades to come.

I mean, which epic tale of adventure has ever started with ‘Everything went smoothly’?! Remember this fun solo traveling quote next time you are going through a truly bumpy road.

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#24 “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

It’s true – and to pull a quote from Nelson Mandela, to explain this epic solo travel quote;

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Once you take the first step towards that trip on your own, you will suddenly realize the world of opportunities ahead of you. If you need a confidence boost, join some of the best Facebook travel groups to get inspired!

#25 “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

It’s tough to move forward when you feel as though your present is trapped by your past.

But it doesn’t have to be.

Your future can be whatever you want it to be. Go on, save for that trip and just go.

#26 “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” – Margaret Shepard

Traveling on your own certainly feels like a massive leap of faith, especially that first time.

#27 “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Unknown

It’s true – travel is scary, and traveling alone even more so. But of all the travel alone quotes, this one is particularly wise and poignant, because after-all, the scariest and toughest paths to follow are often the most rewarding.

Plus, of all the testimonials we have on our website, this is perhaps the feeling that most resonates with those going on their first trip.

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Wise Advice (Packaged as a Solo Trip Quote)

#28 “don’t call it a dream…call it a plan” – unknown.

It’s very simple, but very powerful psychology – if you call it a plan instead of a dream, you’re affirming to yourself that it WILL happen.

#29 “Traveling is not something you’re good at, it’s something you do, like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

One of the rare solo traveling quotes that sums up how almost every solo traveler feels – travel is simply not something you can do without once you’ve tried it.

It’s just as important to life as oxygen.

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

How true is that solo travel quote?

First hand experience will always  trump second hand knowledge, and so often people’s tales and experiences with a destination are influenced based on their own personal interests, style, and bias. In today’s social media and connected world, this saying is even more true.

When you visit a place for the first time you almost always realize that most of what you’ve been told about the place is completely wrong – but the only way to find out is to plan a trip and visit.

So pack that suitcase , and go see for yourself so your opinions are based on your own first hand experience.

#31 “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

Throughout his life, Anthony Bourdain had many classic quotes with thoughts on life and culture and pretty much any other topic, and he inspired many travelers to get out and explore the world solo.

These specific words are truly timeless when it comes to the impact of traveling solo .

#32 “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

At some point, there’s only so long you can wait for your friends to be willing and ready to join you until you realize that you’re going to have to travel alone. Sometimes waiting for people to join you means you’ll never travel at all.

If you are scared, research a destination and plan our trip in detail ; If you are afraid to feel lonely, find ways to meet people or find a travel buddy ; If you want to have great pictures of your trip, learn how to take photos of yourself alone .

Whatever you need to do, but don’t wait up on others.

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

Nothing, and we mean  nothing  will  ever  beat seeing something for yourself.

It just won’t.

That’s why we love this honest solo trip quote.

#34 “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner.

Beat those stereotypes and don’t stick to meeting what others expect of you, only what you want to get for yourself.

#35 “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten

Solo travel means spending more time with yourself than ever before, without the interruptions of day to day life, without work or friends. You deserve it.

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#36 “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling

We sometimes hear our members say that they tried to go on their first solo trip and did not enjoy it. They took a risk, and it did not work out. And that’s ok, life is about taking risks, failing and learning.

#37 “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” – Holly Morris

We agree. Adventure  should  be part of everybody’s life. 

Ultimately, do you want to simply exist? Or do you want to  live ?!

And there is no greater adventure than a solo trip and that’s why we included this deep quote in our list.

#38 “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

Write your own chapters in-between and make sure solo travel is included in some.

#39 “A person needs at intervals to separate themselves from family and companions and go to new places. You must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway

Of all the wise solo travel quotes on this list, this one is perhaps the one which most simply states the truth about traveling solo. No matter what great friends or family you have, spending time away and with yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

#40 “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

One of the most commonly mustered solo travel quotes , Mark Twain’s paragraph is the perfect encouragement to catch that first flight .

Solo Travel & Personal Growth Quotes

#41 “a mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”. – oliver wendell holmes, jr..

Both physically and metaphorically true, this quote is so true when it comes to travel.

Once you’ve been exposed to new ways of seeing the world, new perspectives, new ways of doing things, and new ways of thinking, your mind will have been stretched and will never fit back within the box it first came in.

Reverse culture shock is how those whose minds have been “overstretched” feel when they return to their old life.

#42 “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

This perfectly sums up traveling alone and explains why we all feel much more introspective and like we can finally send time with ourselves when we go on a solo trip.

#43 “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware”. – Martin Buber 

This is one of the classic solo travelling quotes, and speaks to the hidden personal growth people often discover from traveling – lessons they didn’t sign up for and were least expecting.

#44 “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

We could not agree more with Thomas Jefferson and this simple yet powerful quote about solo travel.

#45 “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

It surely does, and a solo trip is the best way to get over the fence of your comfort zone.

#46 “Without new experiences something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

Every time we try something new we fire new neural connections and that’s why it is so great for general mental wellbeing. Traveling solo, by definition, will activate a lot of those connections and it’s why it has such a rewarding effect on our own confidence. 

#47 “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

You could argue that we are all susceptible to wanderlust, or at least, we have never met anyone who is not addicted to travel, but it is true that what is actually addictive is the change, the learning, the growth, the building of your self confidence, the excitement that comes with new things.

#48 “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

As solo travel quotes goes this one is a favorite one among our members because it is a realisation you may not have before going on a solo trip but which is certainly something you get back home after that first trip on your own.

Besides traveling somewhere new, it is the journey inside your brain and your own mind that is probably the most addictive part of a solo tip.

#49 “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

Being exposed to the world is the greatest gift you can give yourself. 

#50 “Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

Have you ever felt like you need to get away from your familiar environment to find out how much you love it? Perspective is golden.

This quote about traveling alone is a great reminder of just that.

#51 “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” – Unknown

This is the most spot on of all the alone travel quotes on this list; When you travel solo you learn to rely on yourself, and with this independence comes a great sense of confidence in your abilities, and greater sense of self worth. This is perhaps the greatest benefit of traveling alone .

You quickly realize you  are  capable of catching connecting international flights, navigating your way around a foreign city, and ordering food in a restaurant where you don’t speak the language.

After you’ve spent some time traveling solo, and learned to trust your decision making and trust in yourself, anything will seem possible.

#52 “Some journeys can be only travelled alone!” – Ken Poirot

Whether you read this travel alone quote in the metaphorical sense, for a journey of personal growth, or in the literal sense, where all of your friends have bailed and you’ve been left to travel alone, it rings true on many different levels!

Thanks Ken!

#53 “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

There’s no-where to hide when you’re traveling alone, and you certainly can’t hide from yourself. Solo travel will shine a very strong spotlight on your strengths and your weaknesses, and in doing so you’ll learn a lot about yourself. This is often impossible when you can retreat to the comfort of your home and it’s what makes this quote on solo travel so raw and honest to the reality of traveling on your own.

#54 “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

You’ll Laugh at These Travel Alone Quotes

#55 “if you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime” – unknown.

We touched on this in solo travel quote #32, but it’s such wise advice that it’s been repackaged and re-worded so many times!

It’s always true!

#56 “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” – Erma Bombeck

#57 “watching sunsets around the world is boring – said no one ever” – unknown.

Literally – we doubt you’ll find  anyone  who’s  ever  said this!

#58 “I travel a lot. I hate having my life disrupted by routine”. – Caskie Stinnett 

It’s true. There’s quite a classic solo travel quote which goes hand in hand with this one quite nicely: “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you”.

Whether or not this is true (that monotony can prove deadly), we’re not willing to risk our lives to find out!

#59 “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne Du Maurier

Did you ever notice that you pay more attention to the places, the sounds, the flavors and the smells on a trip you take with yourself? This solo travel quote explains just what most of us who love to travel solo have realised; you are just more in the moment and more immersed in the destination when you don’t have company to distract you.

#60 “Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy” – Fanny Burney

Solo Female Travel Quotes

#61 “good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – mae west.

We know which girl we prefer to be! 

#62 “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other” – Norma Shearer

We don’t mind getting a bit dirty!

#63 “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

Be the queen of your own world and follow in the footsteps of this quote on traveling solo by exploring and discovering.

#64 “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”  – Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was one of the most important modernist writers of the 20th-century, and while she was more than just a women’s writer , her quotes and writings still have particular relevance to females to this day, almost 80 years after her death.

We particularly love the application of this quote into the solo travel context; it truly sums up the feeling of those of us who identify as ‘citizens of the world’.

#65 “We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.” –  Rosalyn Sussman

We’re working to disprove this and hope that travel can help open doors and minds.

#66 “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

Don’t let fear hold you back from making genuine connections with people abroad, they may turn into a lifetime friendship.

#67 “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

You will always have yourself and a solo trip will show you just how capable and strong you can be.

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#68 “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.” – Dilma Rousseff

And we hope that this spirit extends to solo travel.

#69 “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” – Barbara De Angelis

Traveling on your own as a woman is one of the most empowering adventures you can go on and it is also a great reminder to devote some time to yourself, so don’t forget about this quote when on your next solo trip.

#70 “If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in Space?” – Valentina Tereshkova

Seriously. Why can’t they.

#71 “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.”  – Edna Gardner Whyte

Despite living in a modern, progressive age, where gender equality is widely championed and accepted, we still live in a society where women are underestimated, and their capabilities often undervalued.

“Women are not interested in traveling alone”

This was the answer a member of our community got from her university’s panel when she pitched her final year project: A planning app for women traveling solo. It seems the panel was out of touch with the reality:

– 2016-19 Google searches for “Solo Female Travel” have increased 400% – 65% of US women in a relationship also vacation solo – 80% of the travel decisions are made by women

So, to quote Edna Gardner Whyte , a pilot for over 60 years, and a pioneer aviator, – “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do”!

#72 “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

#73 “i’ve never found my sex a hinderment; never faced a difficulty, which a woman, as well as a man, could not surmount; never felt a fear of danger; never lacked courage to protect myself. i’ve been in tight places and have seen harrowing things.” – harriet chalmers adams.

Be like Harriet: fearless!

Quotes About the Solo Travel Experience

#74 “to awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. you are surrounded by adventure. you have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” – freya stark.

Freya Stark is perhaps one of the most commonly quoted writers of the 20th century; and explorer and travel writer who lived for 100 years between 1893 – 1993, she wrote more than 25 books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan – countries that are still considered off the beaten path for travelers almost 100 years later.

A true pioneer in solo female travel, Freya was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert so this is one of our favorite solo travel quotes on this list.

#75 “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

There is so much truth to this – people around the world are overwhelmingly kind, and we truly believe that once people travel, and realize this – form connections with locals, and realize the warmth of their hearts and hospitality, it would bridge many cultural divides.

#76 “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

Meeting new interesting people is one of the greatest benefits of traveling alone . After-all, the motto of every solo traveler is that strangers are simply friends you haven’t met yet!

#77 “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

#78 “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

This solo travel quote speaks to the liberating nature of traveling alone. You’re free from any limitations you feel you may face at home – nobody abroad knows you so you can embrace your ‘true self’, or the self you most wish to be.

You can step outside of the limitations of your reputation, of your friends and family’s expectations, and be truly free.

#79 “London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.” – Laura Fraser

It’s absolutely true! You don’t have to go far or wide to seek adventure – don’t think you have to throw yourself straight in the deep end on a solo tour to an exotic land or culture – start small, and even an adventure in your own backyard can offer the same type of adventure and exhilaration if you’re doing it on your own. Never forget this quote on solo travel next time you explore our backyard.

#80 “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

Also playing into our above note on the liberating nature of solo travel; you’re not judged as harshly as you are at home, and you can freely live, explore, and enjoy the world, on your own terms, without being unduly noticed.

#81 “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

We truly do love the wisdom of Anthony Bourdain and this quote that best explains what happens on a solo trip is one of his best.

Solo Travelling Quotes You Haven’t Heard Before

#82 “live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – stephen covey.

Though do learn how to read one first!

#83 “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac

Seriously – when was mowing the lawn  ever  memorable?! Go climb Kilimanjaro instead!

#84 “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

If you are told traveling solo is not for you, remember not to let anyone question your choices or make you fit in their mould, remember this wise solo travel quote and go on with your own view of the world.

#85 “I fear regret more than I fear failure” – Unknown

It’s true that we get to the end of our lives, and regret the things we  didn’t  do, far more than the things we did.

Live a life without regrets. Go travel solo!

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

Whether you call it the travel bug, itchy feet, restlessness, or a serious case of wanderlust, there is a certain magic to travel which will hypnotize, and forever change you.

And travel is an addiction from which there is no known cure, and most will never recover!

But we don’t say this lightheartedly – travel addition is very real . Psychiatrists have historically named extreme cases of the travel bug as “dromomania”: a diagnoseable condition where the primary symptom is an uncontrollable urge to walk or wander.

The term was officially added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders  as an “impulse-control disorder” and “psychiatric problem” in 2000. The definition states: “sufferers have an abnormal impulse to travel; they are prepared to spend beyond their means, sacrifice jobs, lovers, and security in their lust for new experiences.”

#87 “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

You’ll find you stop missing home the moment you leave. This is a travel quote we love, even if it sounds contradictory.

#88 “To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.” – Raquel Cepeda

Ever heard people say experiences make you richer than material bling?

There’s truth to this!

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

You don’t have to go too far to have adventures, sometimes, all it takes is for us to open our eyes to what’s around us with renewed curiosity.

#90 “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha

Even the Buddha had a solo travel quote to share and he for sure was on to something. Don’t wait up on others, set forth.

#91 “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.

Forget about the showing off and the social media likes and instead focus on what good you can bring others. Live by this solo trip quote, always.

Classic Travel Alone Quotes

#92 “i am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – mary anne radmacher.

One of our favorite classic solo travel quotes from Mary Anne Radmacher, who is a writer, artist and public speaker often covering topics on living a full, creative, and balanced life.

Many of her quotes are worthy for this list – another we love perhaps belongs in our section above on solo travel quotes to give you courage:

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

#93 “Where-ever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

This is true of every aspect of life, but we particularly love it when applied to the context of solo travel.

#94 “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

The Danish author captured this so perfectly, beautiful and succinctly – to travel truly is to live!

#95 “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

Another of Helen’s amazing pieces of wisdom, this is also one of the most repeated solo female travel quotes of all times because it so simply spells the “carpe diem” mentality.

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

The great explorer Ibn Battuta was one of the first and most epic world adventurer and he sure understood the power of setting off on an epic trip. This famous travel quote is another of the most repeated ones.

#97 “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

#98 “the impulse of travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – agnes repplier .

#99 “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

Travel will very quickly shatter any pre-conceived notions of your own self importance, or that the world revolves around you. The world is populated by 7.8 billion  people  and this realization is a very humbling experience.

Travel will keep you modest, and keep you grounded.

#100 “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

And the world, if we may say so, is a pretty compelling page turner!

Trust us, you don’t want to put it down having only read one page!!

#101 “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

It’s true – that’s literally not what they’re built for. We’ll let you draw the metaphor to solo travel.

#102 “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

Solid, wise advice to live by concentrated in this travel quote.

#103 “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

We will finish this list of wise solo travel quotes with what is most likely the most well known of all by Susan Sontag.

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75 Best Traveling Alone Quotes For Solo Travel!

Whether you are having your first solo trip or planning on traveling solo, quotes are an excellent way to capture the emotions that comes with such a life-changing experience. At LivingOutLau, we know what it feels like to embark on your first solo journey and explore the world because we are solo travelers ourselves. Traveling solo has changed us tremendously and given us perspectives of the world that would not be possible to achieve otherwise. In fact, there are many  benefits of solo traveling , such as an increase in confidence, making new friends and so on. That is why we have written this post on the 75 best solo travel quotes, so they can help inspire you or captivate your audience on social media! Enjoy!

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• Epic Road Trip Quotes
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• Sweet Traveling With Friends Quotes

Our Favorite Quotes For Traveling Alone

After years of solo backpacking, these are our favorite quotes about traveling alone. They have either motivated us to push on when solo traveling got rough or helped us capture the complicated emotions we felt during our journey.

• “I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.” – Roman Payne
• “When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go.” – Vivek Thangaswamy
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2003)
• “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo
• “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
• “Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.” – Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2004)
• “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
• “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” – Penelope Riley, Travel Absurdities
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

• “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.”
• “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Anthony Robbins
• “Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.” – Anatole France
• “They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.” – Jess “Chief” Brynjulson
• “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

Simple Solo Travel Quotes

Simple solo travel quotes are perfect for those that want to share on social media but not sound too tryhard. They are perfect for every kind of scenario!

• “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” – Ken Poirot
• “A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity.” – Lauren Kleefeld
• “Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.” – John Masefield
• “Walk your own path and be yourself.” – Joanne Nussbaum
• “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
• “You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.” – Alan Wilson Watts
• “The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.” – Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself (2011)
• “A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russell Lowell

Funny Travel Solo Quotes

Want to get those engagements on Instagram or social media? Use one of our funny travel solo quotes! These quotations are perfect for getting comments and likes!

• “I don’t want to go to Peru .” How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.” – Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower (2005)
• “You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.” – Bill Murray
• “Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me.”
• “The best way to know a city is to eat it.” – Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds (2014)
• “Be strong”, I whisper to my WiFi signal!”
• “I need 6 months of vacation, twice a year.”
• “All you need is  love  a passport.”
• “Good things come to those who book flights.”
• “I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
• “If you look like your passport picture, you probably need a trip.”

Profound Traveling Alone Quotes

Profund traveling alone quotes are ideal for solo trips, especially since it is such a thought-provoking and eye-widening experience!

• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
• “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” -Henry David Thoreau
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
• “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, A Place on Earth (1966)
• “The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..” – Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (2011)
• “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.” – Albert Camus
• “There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.” – John Steinbeck
• “Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” – Debasish Mridha
• “We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Solo Traveler Quote From Books And Movies

Solo traveler quotes from books or movies are perfect for social media because they are so poetic! Use these wisely and you can get the engagement you want!

• “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess (2013)
• “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. ” Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel (2002)
• “My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World (2001)
• “I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.” – Alison Singh Gee, Where the Peacocks Sing: A Palace, a Prince, and the Search for Home (2013)
• “I guess I’m too selfish to travel well with other people, […]” – Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman (2000)
• “Find the right paths for your journey. Travel along these paths to your final destination.” – Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great! (2014)
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
• “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho, Aleph (2010)
• “How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.” – Sarah Reijonen, Country Girl: Letting Love & Wanderlust Take the Reins (2013)
• “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus (1986)

Song Lyrics About Solo Traveling

Nothing is a better caption than song lyrics about solo traveling! Just be careful about getting them stuck in your head!

1.  I Travel Alone, Noël Coward I travel alone, Sometimes I’m east, Sometimes I’m west, No chains can ever bind me, No remembered love Can ever find me. I travel alone, Fair though the places And faces I’ve known, When the dream has ended And passion has flown, I travel alone.

2.  Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan How does it feel, how does it feel? To be without a home Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone

3.  No Roots – Alice Merton And a thousand times I’ve seen this road A thousand times I’ve got no roots, but my home was never on the ground

4.  Rio – Hey Marseilles On the way I will go Where the days left to breathe Are not gone, are still long I am travelin’ on

5.  How Far I’ll Go – Auliʻi Cravalho (From Moana) See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me And no one knows How far it goes If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me One day I’ll know If I go, there’s just no telling how far I’ll go

6.  End Of The Line – Traveling Wilburys Well, it’s alright, ridin’ around in the breeze Well, it’s alright, if you live the life you please Well, it’s alright, doin’ the best you can Well, it’s alright, as long as you lend a hand

7.  Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf Get your motor runnin’ Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way

8.  Lost Highway – Hank Williams When I pass by, all the people say Just another guy on the lost highway

9.  Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd For I must be traveling on now ‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see But if I stay here with you, girl Things just couldn’t be the same ‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now

10.  Runnin’ Wild – Airbourne You got me runnin’ wild, wild and free The open road is all I need Runnin’ wild, wild and free It’s never gonna be like it used to be

Short Solo Trip Quotes

Nobody’s got time to read your long captions! Use one of these short solo trip quotes and get straight to the point!

• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
• “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi Jalalud-Din
• “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho
• “Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.” – Winna Efendi, The Journeys
• “Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice.” – Pico Iyer
• “Go solo, go now!”
• “If you never go, you’ll never know.”
• “Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” – Aaron Lauritsen
• “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coehlo
• “I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.” – Shaun Hick

Bonus Quotes About Solo Travel!

• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”
• “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
• “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
• This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” – Becca Lee
• “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

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75 Best Solo Travel Quotes (+ Others)

• by Jonny Duncan
• July 4, 2023 July 4, 2023

Travelling alone can be a life-changing experience and one of the best things you do. These solo travel quotes for travelling alone from famed explorers/writers/ and more will inspire you to get out and go travelling alone.

They are also very useful if you want some great solo travel quotes for Instagram or other social media channels, etc.

There are 25 specific “solo travel quotes”, some of which are very famous travel quotes and the other 50 are general travel quotes but they can be used as solo travel quotes as well.

Just a quick note before we start. I had travelled alone for 20 or so years from 1997 onwards, but I have now been with my partner and wife for 5 years and love travelling together as a couple.

Still, some solo travel quotes are good to know!

Enjoy these inspiring solo travelling quotes and other travel quotes.

25 Best Solo Travel Quotes

I’ll start with one of my favourite travel writers with one of his solo travel quotes.

• “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

2. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale

3. “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski

4. “The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.”- Alan Ashley-Pitt

5. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

6. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne Du Maurier

The next one is a very true one out of all these solo travel quotes:

7. “Some journeys in life can only be travelled alone.” – Ken Poirot

8. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

9. “When the traveller goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

10. “Solo travel is an opportunity to discover parts of yourself that you never knew existed.” – Stephanie Lee

11. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

12. “The solo traveller is not looking for an escape from life, but rather a way to experience it more fully.” -Shane Dallas

13. “There’s no right or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should try it at least once in their life.” — Susan Moore

14. “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” — Gina Greenlee

15. “When the traveller goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

16. “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  

17. “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” — Gina Greenlee

18. “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

Another one of the best solo travel quotes:

19. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

20. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone

21. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.” — Unknown

22. “In solo travel, you are forced to face your fears, discover your strengths, and learn to trust yourself.” – Unknown

23. “Travelling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown

24. “Solo travel will push you out of your comfort zone and give you a confidence boost like nothing else can.” – Unknown

25. “Traveling alone is an opportunity to discover yourself and find your own way.” – Unknown

30 Famous Travel Quotes

Many of these can also apply to solo travel quotes.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu

2. “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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

3. “A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

4. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gorde

5. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis

6. One of the most famous travel quotes out there:

“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien

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

8. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

9. “A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

10. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

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

12. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

13. “One thing that I love about travelling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.” — Sarah Glidden

14. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman

15. “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

16. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

17. “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” — Paulo Coelho

That applies to solo travel quotes as well.

BTW If you haven’t read Paulo Coelho’s book The Alchemist I highly recommend you do:

18. Another of my favourite travel writers is Bill Bryson and this is one the best Bill Bryson travel quotes:

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

19. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

20. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

21. “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

22. “Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

23. “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

24. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

25. “Take the risk, or lose the chance” – Unknown 

26. “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

27. 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

28. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

29. “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” — Micheline Jean Louis

30. “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” — Paulo Coelho

31. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway

32. “Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.” – Robert Thier

33. “So I find words I never thought to speak. In streets, I never thought I should revisit. When I left my body on a distant shore.” – T.S. Eliot

34. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin

35. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

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

37. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

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

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

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

41. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

42. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

43. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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

45. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

46. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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

48. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho

49. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

50. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

I’ll add one of my own quotes here at the end. It’s not just about travel, but life in general.

“The less you have, the less you have to worry about.” Jonny Duncan (me!)

That is to say, travel light and live free. Travel with as little things as possible and you will feel a freedom so strong. I normally travelled in the past with just a 30 litres carry-on backpack and lived a minimal life.

These days I do have a bigger bag but that’s because I’m married and help carry some of my wife’s things.

Solo Travelling Advice

Solo travelling is one of the most rewarding life experiences for you to have. I travelled alone (that is to say left home alone) for 20 or so years.

But you’re never really alone. You will always meet new people, whether they are fellow travellers or locals you meet, and have new experiences in new places together, with lots of memories.

The biggest advice for solo travelling, and what some of these solo travel quotes have said, is simply:

“Don’t be afraid, step out your door, and just go!” Me!

I love solo travel quotes, they just give inspiration for those planning to travel solo and see the world.

Enjoy your solo travelling adventure±

Solo Traveller Quotes

Those are the best solo travel quotes and travel quotes overall. I have used many of these over the past 25 years of travelling, and love them all.

For travel guides and advice for helping you out with your journey take a look at my destinations page.

As I mentioned in the beginning Paul Theroux and Bill Bryson are two of my favourite travel writers, with great solo travel quotes, and have books spanning all over the world, so if you want some great travel reading take a look at some of their books.

The Great Railway Bazaar is old now but a brilliant read and In a Sunburned Country is hilarious. I recommend Bookshop.org as they help support local bookstores.

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65 Inspiring & Uplifting Travel Alone Quotes for Solo Travel

When you’re on the road solo or planning to travel alone, quotes can help to inspire and uplift you. These 65 beautiful solo travel quotes from literature, pop culture and history make the perfect solo travel captions for social media.

You only need to search the internet to see there are millions of inspirational quotes about travelling out there. Solo travel quotes have a special ingredient – not only can they ignite wanderlust and stoke passion for the great unknown, they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to a solo traveller who is facing the world alone.

Solo travel is a life-changing experience . As with all travel, it’s often difficult to find the right words to describe your trip, or to convey how travel has altered your life once you get back home.

To give your confidence and boost and help you share your solo travel experience with the world, I’ve curated this epic list of 65 meaningful and insightful travel alone quotes.

Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip. However you choose to use these solo travel quotes, they are guaranteed to inspire and delight!

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Short and sweet solo travel quotes

Short travel alone quotes are perfect for social media, including solo travel announcements (that exciting moment when you make your trip official!), or your first travel solo travel update from the road.

These popular and not-so-famous quotations beautifully capture what it’s like to travel alone, with only yourself for company.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.”

– Freya Stark

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.”

– Storm Jameson

“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

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”

– Isabelle Eberhardt

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.”

– Debasish Mridha

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.”

– Gina Greenlee

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”

– John Mayer

“Some journeys can be only travelled alone!”

– Ken Poirot

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

– Maxwell Maltz

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.”

– Paul Cezanne

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”

– Mandy Hale

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”

– Diane Von Furstenberg

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

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”

– Daphne Du Maurier

“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.”

– Timi Nadela

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.”

– Aisha Mirza

“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.”

“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.”

– Paul Theroux

“I used to be a pedestrian before, now I am the rider on the same road.”

– Piyush Paudyal

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

– Anaïs Nin

Motivational quotes for planning a solo trip

When you’re planning to visit a new country or a foreign city by yourself for the first time, the hardest part can be finding the inner courage to pack your backpack and make your solo travel dreams a reality.

These travel alone quotes speak to the very heart of solo travel – the push and pull between indecision , wanting to do the right thing while also finding freedom and empowering yourself to spread your wings.

You may feel nervous – that’s totally normal – but have faith that a well-planned solo journey is almost always a step in the right direction.

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”

– Erol Ozan

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”

– Nitin Namdeo

“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.”

– Anthon St. Maarten

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.”

– Holly Morris

“A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

– Gael Attal

“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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

– Mark Twain

Poetic quotes about solo travel

These longer solo travel quotes are nothing short of art.

“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendour and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.”

– Kilroy J. Oldster

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.”

– Mitali Meelan

“It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… “Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” 

– Alain de Botton

“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.”

– Micheline Jean Louis

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.”

– David Baldacci

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.”

Solo female travel quotes

Solo female travel is becoming more and more popular. I’ve done a few solo trips in recent years, and it never ceases to amaze me how different my travel experience is when I’m alone rather than with my partner or friends.

These quotations capture the independent spirit of solo female travellers.

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”

“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.”

– Nico J. Genes

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

– Lalah Delia

Quotes that prove solo travel makes you stronger

Solo travel often starts with taking a leap of faith. If it’s your first solo trip, you must actively work on believing in yourself and trusting your instincts.

Sometimes in travel (and in life), the only certainty is uncertainty. Things won’t always be easy, things wont’ always go to plan. Barriers and hurdles are almost guaranteed – but these experiences are likely to make you stronger and more resilient.

These travel alone quotes are all about testing your limits.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

– Neale Donald Walsch

“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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”

“It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.”

– Mae Chevrette

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”

– Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.”

– David Cuschieri

Quotations that prove solo travel changes your perspective

I’ve never met anyone who decided to solo travel and came back the same person. Travel changes you – that’s undeniable – and often travel alone can shape you in ways you never could have anticipated.

One of the greatest lessons travel can teach you is to be humble. Travel helps you find your place in the world. A solo trip can give you the tools you need to tackle all of life’s adventures – and misadventures, too.

These solo travel quotes refer to self-discovery, breaking through your comfort zone, and seeing travel as a motif for the journey of life.

“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

– Pico Iyer

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.”

– Grace Lichtenstein

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.”

– Pablo Holmberg

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”

– Marty Rubin

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

– David McCullough Jr.

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

– Gustav Flaubert

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.”

– Angela Vallely

“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.”

– Helen S. Rosenau

Remember, your trip might start out as a solo adventure but it might not end that way! It’s the bonds you form along the way that often make travel truly memorable.

For more inspiration, check out these beautiful quotes about travelling with friends .

“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”

– Jacqueline Boone

Coming home: Solo travel quotes to mark the end of a journey

All good journeys must come to an end! It feels like just yesterday friends and family were wishing you a safe journey , and now it’s time to go back to the people you love.

These quotes sum up the bittersweet feeling of coming home after a solo trip.

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”

– A.J. Hartley & David Hewson

“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.”

– Jewel E. Ann

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”

– Ron Franscell

“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.”

– Louise Arner Boyd

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.”

– Becca Lee

“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.”

– Elizabeth Lim

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”

– Katharine McGee

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

– Mary Oliver

That’s a wrap! I hope these 65 travel alone quotes have made you see solo travel in a new light, or perhaps motivated you to take the leap into solo travel.

Do you have any more inspiring quotes to share? I’d love to hear them in the comments below!

“Challenges are opportunities for growth and learning. Embrace them and see how far you can go.”

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Wonderful quotes for solo travellers. The solo female traveller quotes are also interesting.

This quotes make people strong to take decision and travel alone. Thanks for sharing such types of motivating quotes.

Many many thanks for sharing with us.

Beautiful quotes. I love them all. Thanks for sharing.

These quotes will definitely encourage anyone to go for solo travelling. Everyone will be inspired by these. Thank you.

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70 Inspiring Solo Travel Quotes that will inspire you to go on the adventure of your life!

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Looking for some inspiring solo travel quotes for your Instagram captions? 

Or maybe you are thinking about taking the leap and going on an adventure on your own and are looking for an extra bit of motivation?

Getting started is the most difficult part of solo travel. And then enjoying your own company is another part. You may sometimes get a bit demotivated and feel lonely but remember, you are travelling alone, not lonely!

Whatever is the reason that makes you want to discover these incredible quotes about solo travelling, it works for us!

Travelling solo is such an exciting experience! You will never forget your first solo trip. 

It’s a great way to learn more about yourself and the world that surrounds us all.

So, let’s get started now and discover the most beautiful quotes about solo travel.

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Inspiring Solo Trip Quotes: 35 quotes about travelling solo

Here we have compiled a list of inspiring Solo Travel Quotes that will motivate you to travel alone and thrive on the journey of being a solo wanderer.

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!” – Unknown

“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show” – Unknown

“Embrace those parts of yourself that you’ve skillfully avoided until now. That’s your true adventure.” – Gina Greenlee , Postcards and Pearls

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock” – Erica Jong

“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly” – Colin Wright

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

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads formed years and miles apart.”- Gina Greenlee , Postcards and Pearls

“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

“You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life- and travel- leaves marks on you.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.

“Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

“Travel -The Best Way To Be Lost And Found At The Same Time.” – Brenna Smith

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

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“No matter how you travel, it’s still you going.” – Jeff Goldblum

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.” – Katharine McGee

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” – Henry Ford

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

“The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

Best Quotes about traveling alone

In this section you’ll discover the best travel alone quotes.

Being alone doesn’t mean you will be lonely. On the contrary actually! As a solo traveller, we often end up being always around people!

It makes us more sociable and incline to discover more about others and the local culture.

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” – Natalie Goldberg

“Some journeys can be only traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

“If you have to travel along, travel in style” – Hugh Grant / Daniel Cleaver, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, “Why, it is life.” – Emily Hahn , Congo Solo; Misadventures Two Degrees North

“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

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

“When you’re (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist , Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

“Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Buddha

• “- Eady: You travel a lot?
• Neil McCauley: Yeah.
• Eady: Traveling makes you lonely?
• Neil McCauley: I’m alone, I am not lonely.” – Eady (Amy Brenneman) and Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in Heat

“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

“My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” – Warsan Shire

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

” When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

Solo Female Travel Quotes

Are you a woman planning a solo trip? These solo female travel quotes will be perfect for you! They were all said by wonderful women.

” As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

This is one of the most famous solo female travel quotes out there and we hope it will motivate all the ladies out there to travel!

Virginia Woolf was an English writer who is known as one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century.

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

“Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson

“I wondered why it was places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne Du Maurier

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

“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

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Solo Adventure Quotes

Travelling solo is an amazing experience but it’s also very much of an adventure. There will be ups and downs but no matter, you can be sure of one thing: it will be the trip of a lifetime!

Here are some amazing and inspiring solo adventure quotes.

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

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

“To shut your eyes is to travel.” – Emily Dickinson

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“I didn’t know where I was going until I got there.” – Cheryl Strayed

There is nothing quite like travelling solo. It’s a great way to discover your true self and improve your self-confidence.

The more you travel solo, the more you realise that you don’t need anyone to do what you want and dream of. You can do it all yourself!

We hope these solo travel quotes will help you to take the leap and go on the adventure of your life!

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63 Solo Travel Quotes that Will Inspire You

There’s something satisfying about finding quotes that describe your feelings about a place or a travel experience. The same goes for quotes that inspire you to get out of your comfort zone and start travelling solo. There are millions of inspirational quotes about travelling on the internet and many of these are about solo travel.

Travelling alone is a wonderful, life-changing experience and it can be hard to describe how it makes you feel. I’ve been travelling solo for over 6 years, and have been doing it full-time for the last 2 years and this has taught me so many valuable lessons.

That’s why I’ve put together a list of the most beautiful solo travel quotes that will either inspire you to go on that solo adventure or help you find the right words to describe the wonderful feeling of travelling on your own.

Here are 63 of the most beautiful and inspiring solo travelling quotes out there!

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Short Travelling Alone Quotes

These short and powerful solo travel quotes are perfect to use as a picture caption, whether it’s on Instagram, Facebook or somewhere else.

1 – “Travel far enough to find yourself.”  – Unknown

2 – “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”   – Buddha

3 – “When the traveller goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”   – Liberty Hyde Bailey

4 – “Don’t be scared to walk alone, don’t be scared to like it.”   – John Mayer

5 – “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”  – Maxwell Maltz

6 – “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.”   – Angela Vallely

7 – “If you never go, you will never know.”  – Anonymous

8 – “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”   – Daphne Du Maurier

9 – “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.”   – Sue Fitzmaurice

10 – “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.”  – Anonymous

11 – “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.”  – Paul Theroux

12 – “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”   – Neale Donald Walsch

13 – “Some journeys can only be travelled alone.”  – Ken Poirot

14 – “Travelling solo means getting to know the real you.”   – Anonymous

15 – “The question is not who is going to let me; the question is who is going to stop me.”   – Ayn Rand

16 – “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”   – Danny Kaye

17 – “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”   – Jeanne Moreau

18 – “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. “   – Lewis Carroll

19 – “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.”  – Walt Whitman

20 – “All you’ve got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over.”  – Tony Wheeler

21 – “Travel is an investment in yourself.”   – Matthew Karsten

22 – “Wolves travel in packs, but the fiercest travel alone.”   – Matshona Dhliwayo

23 – “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”  – Helen Keller

24 – “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”  – Anaïs Nin

Motivational Solo Travelling Quotes

Do you need some motivation to head out there and start travelling by yourself? Then this is the right section for you!

It can be quite daunting to fly alone and head on a solo trip for the very first time but these quotes will give you the extra push to get out of your comfort zone and start travelling by yourself.

Here are the best motivational solo travel quotes!

25 – “Travelling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown

26 – “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson

27 – “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” – Unknown

28 – “Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.”   – Francis Shenstone

29 – “As you move outside of your comfort zone, what once was the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”   – Robin S. Sharma

30 – “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”   – Henry David Thoreau

31 – “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”   – Unknown

32 – “Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.”  – Helen Thayer

33 – “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.”   – Angelina Jolie

34 – “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.”   – Unknown

35 – “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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Dream. Discover.”  – Mark Twain

36 – “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”  – Nora Roberts

37 – “A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”  – Gael Attal

38 – “True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.”   – Adam Braun

39 – “There is a big world out there, don’t wait for someone to take you by the hand. Just go.”   – Unknown

40 – “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”   – Susan Jeffers

Inspirational Travel Alone quotes

The following quotes will inspire you to go on that solo adventure. They speak about all the reasons why we choose to travel alone and how enriching solo travel is.

41 – “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”   – Suzy Strutner

42 – “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

43 – “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”   – Freya Stark

44 – “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” – Gina Greenlee

45 – “It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”   – Alain de Botton

46 – “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”  – Diane Von Furstenberg

47 – “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

48 – “Sometimes the journey has to be travelled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.”   – Steven Aitchison

49 – “When you’re travelling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.”   – Shauna Niequist

50 – “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.”   – Thomas Jefferson

51 – “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”   – Mandy Hale

52 – “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself.”   – Ann Stirk

53 – “Sometimes one day in a different place will give you more than 10 years of life at home.”   – Anatole France

54 – “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”   – Jacqueline Boone

55 – “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”   – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

56 – “Solo travel as a spiritual journey is one that frees you to shed the responsibilities of daily life, if only temporarily.”   – Janice Waugh

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

58 – “It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with expectations of others.”   – Alain de Botton

59 – “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”   – Nitin Namdeo

60 – “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.”  – Mitali Meelan

61 – “Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.”   – Nico J. Genes

62 – “For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

63 – “The beauty of traveling solo is that wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.” – Shannon Ablesa

Quotes About Travelling Alone: Final Thoughts

And that was it – 63 of the most inspiring quotes about travelling alone.

Solo travel is an incredibly enriching experience, and I hope that you have found exactly what you were looking for in this post full of solo trip quotes, whether it’s a caption to accompany your photo or some motivation to get out of your comfort zone and start travelling solo!

What’s your favourite quote from this list? Or is there a beautiful quote about travelling alone that’s missing? Let me know in the comments! I’m updating this post frequently.

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Laura Meyers

Laura Meyers is the founder of Laure Wanders. She was born in Belgium and has travelled to over 40 countries, many of them solo. She currently spends most of her time between Belgium and South Asia and loves helping other travellers plan their adventures abroad.

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Far out! The quotes are so true.thks for sharing these.

Nice quotes and some are so true. Number 12 and 25, these are so recognizable.

Agreed! I hope we’ll be able to travel again soon 😉

Loved it! I enjoyed reading your quotes. Stepping out into the unknown with no one else to rely on, you come to learn to learn so much about yourself. Often these solo trips are life-changing adventures. Fav one “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.”, well said. Sometimes I write about the quotes too. Here is an example post I wrote in case you or any of your readers find it interesting. Our content complements each other nicely, perhaps we can collab in some way in the future. Cheers! https://www.flaneurlife.com/solo-travel-alone-quotes/

Thank you! 🙂 I Just checked out Flaneur Life and love the topics you write about (you have interesting content on entrepreneurship and online businesses as well)! Would be great to collab in the future, perhaps we can connect on LinkedIn, FB, or IG?

Hey Laure, My name is Nitin Namdeo and I’m the founder of succedict.com.

First, thank you for showing my quote on your page https://www.laurewanders.com/inspirational-quotes-about-solo-travel/ I’m truly humbled to see that. 🙂

[ 57. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo ]

Now, could I ask you a little favor? Do you think you could refer back to my website succedict.com? It would mean the world to me since I’ve been trying hard lately to get the word out about my work.

Either way, I wish you an excellent day.

Thank you, — Nitin Namdeo Creative Writer & Blogger

Hi Nitin, thank you for your comment, I love your quote! Of course, I just added a link to your website in your name in this post. 🙂 I wish you the best of luck spreading the word, I’m sure you’ll succeed!

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Solo travel quotes

Adventure awaits those who venture alone.

Traveling solo is an opportunity to discover who you really are.

The greatest journey is the one you take by yourself.

Traveling alone is a chance to create your own story.

In solitude, you find the freedom to be yourself.

Solo travel unlocks the doors to self-discovery.

Being alone doesn’t mean you’re lonely, it means you’re exploring.

Embrace the unknown and let your solo adventures ignite your soul.

Traveling alone teaches you to rely on yourself and trust your instincts.

A solo journey is a dance of self-love and exploration.

When you travel alone, you find the courage to face the world.

Solo travel is a love affair with the world and yourself.

The road less traveled is best explored alone.

Traveling solo allows you to break free from your comfort zone.

A solo journey is a canvas on which you paint your dreams.

When you travel alone, the world becomes your playground.

Being alone doesn’t mean you’re lonely; it means you’re free.

Solo travel is the path to self-discovery and inner peace.

In solitude, you find the strength to conquer your fears.

Traveling alone is an act of self-empowerment.

There is no greater company than your own when you travel alone.

Solo travel is a lesson in resilience and self-reliance.

Embark on a solo journey and let your spirit soar.

Traveling alone allows you to listen to the whispers of your soul.

A solo journey is a chance to find your own rhythm in the world.

The beauty of solo travel is that you choose your own adventure.

Traveling alone is an invitation to tread on the path of self-discovery.

In solitude, you find the peace that comes from within.

Solo travel is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

When you travel alone, you become the author of your own story.

Traveling alone is a gift you give to yourself.

In the stillness of your solo journey, you find your true essence.

Solo travel is the greatest teacher of self-love.

The world is your oyster when you travel alone.

In solitude, you find the courage to face your fears head-on.

A solo journey is a dance with the unknown, where every step is an adventure.

Traveling alone is a soulful symphony of serendipity.

In the company of yourself, you are never lonely when you travel alone.

Solo travel allows you to embrace the present and let go of the past.

The solo traveler sees the world from a different perspective.

A journey alone awakens the senses and ignites the soul.

When you travel alone, you find the strength to conquer the world.

Solo travel is a love affair with life and all its wonders.

In solitude, you set yourself free from the expectations of others.

Traveling alone is a dance with the stars and a whisper to the moon.

A solo journey is an opportunity to write your own destiny.

When you travel alone, you become the captain of your own ship.

Solo travel is a pilgrimage to the depths of your soul.

In solitude, you find the answers to the questions you never knew you had.

Traveling alone is a testament to the strength and independence of your spirit.

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Solo travel has been a growing trend for a number of years as more individuals are discovering how powerful it can be. Stepping out into the unknown with no one else to rely on, you come to learn to learn so much about yourself. Often these solo trips are life-changing adventures. Here are some solo travel quotes for those traveling alone or thinking about embarking on a solo adventure.

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Are you contemplating a solo trip? If so, you’re not alone. Around the world, people are packing their bags and hitting the open road without anyone else but themselves. And for good reason: Solo travel is an incredible way to learn about yourself, see the world in a new light, and make lasting memories. These 59 quotes will inspire you to explore the world alone and discover all that it has to offer.

Solo Travel Quotes

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Nikola Tesla

The best thinking has been done in solitude. Thomas A. Edison

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it. Freya Stark

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

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. Daphne du Maurier

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity . Make your life worth living. Albert Einstein

Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you. Steven Aitchison

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. David McCullough Jr.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. John Mayer

Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time. Brenna Smith

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It’s a unique experience and one that is so self-educating. Kunal Khemu

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. Seneca

I’ve often been with someone and wished I was alone. I’ve never been alone and wished I was not. Derek Sivers

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. Lewis Carroll

Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations. Suzy Strutner

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. David Mitchell

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Von Goethe

Not being comfortable alone means you must spend more time alone. Maxime Lagacé

Without great solitude no serious work is possible. Pablo Picasso

I myself am best when least in company. William Shakespeare

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life. Paulo Coelho

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. Ayn Rand

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see. Carew Papritz

To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself. Dag Hammarskjold

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

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. Voltaire

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. William James

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. Isabelle Eberhardt

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Henry Rollins

When you’re travelling with someone, you share each discovery . But when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it. Shauna Niequist

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. Rolf Potts

Wherever you go, go with all your heart! Confucius

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn 

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. Liberty Hyde Bailey

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. George Washington

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley

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

Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury

Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself. Walt Whitman

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau

A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. Pico Iyer

Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. Marty Rubin

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius

Travel brings power and love back to your life. Rumi

The journey not the arrival matters. T.S. Eliot

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known . Carl Sagan

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong. Sue Fitzmaurize

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown. You travel for the unknown, the reveals you within yourself. Ella Maillart

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

A Final Word

So what are you waiting for? Get inspired by these quotes, plan your dream trip and go explore the world solo. Have we convinced you yet that there’s nothing quite like traveling on your own terms?

Have any other solo travel quotes you’d add to the collection? Which is your favorite? Let us know in the comments – we’d love to hear it!

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Looking for some inspirational solo travel quotes or travel alone quotes? You are in the right place because this blog is all about solo travel.

So, in this post, you will find those travelling alone quotes of wisdom that will inspire you to step out alone.

If you have never traveled alone or been hesitant about traveling by yourself, these words will kindle your desire to explore the world alone.

Why check these solo travel captions?

As a solo female traveler, some of these solo travel quotes push me to pack my bags when I have cold feet before going off on an adventure.

I hope these quotes about traveling alone will do the same to you. Go ahead and check what some of the world’s best authors, travelers, and explorers have got to say about solo travel.

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BEST SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Let’s start this epic list with the best solo travel quotes.

These quotes about traveling alone will surely uplift your morale, especially if you are contemplating planning your first solo trip.

Whether you are looking for some motivational words to inspire you to take the leap of faith, or encouragement to go do it, these travel alone quotes will boost your morale to a great degree.

‘I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.’ – Roman Payne

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

These words ring true and are more relevant today than ever. I know solo traveling can be intimidating because I have been there.

But it just lasts until you take that first step. Once you do, nobody can stop you from making you the queen of your life.

Whenever you start feeling butterflies in your stomach, return to these quotes for travelling alone to beat your fears and doubts.

‘Anything we fully do is an alone journey.’  —  Natalie Goldberg

‘Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.’ – The Dhammapada

‘My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude .’ – Warsan Shire

‘Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.’ – John Mayer

One of my favorite solo travel quotes is this one above by John Mayer that runs so deep, and it isn’t about travel alone. It is important to cultivate self-love, something we forget or take for granted.

When we start spending time with ourselves more, traveling becomes an extension of that.

And this is one of the best solo travel quotes that describe it best.

You will never know if traveling alone is for you not until you give a try, right?

These solo travel quotes give that push or nudge with their powerful descriptions of all the emotions associated with being alone on the road.

‘Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.’ -Walt Whitman

‘The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘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

‘The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.’  –  Alan Ashley-Pitt 

‘When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.’ – Diane Von Furstenberg

‘ I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.’  —  Thomas Jefferson

‘Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.’ – Ken Poirot

‘I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.’ -Storm Jameson

‘There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale 

‘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

‘Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.’ – Henry Rollins

Traveling alone is not just exploring places.

It is an opportunity to discover yourself, and these words best describe what solo travel is.

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‘To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.’ – Unknown

‘Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.’ – Grace Lichtenstein

This is probably one of the deepest solo travel quotes out there.

‘When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.’ — Shauna Niequist 

One of the things about solo travel is that you don’t have others to share your experiences. And these words about traveling alone poetically explains how it is best.

BEST TRAVEL ALONE QUOTES

This list of solo travel quotes are the best ones, some of my favorites that I keep coming back to.

If you are having second thoughts due to the fear of being by yourself or encountering dangers, don’t let these things stop you.

Check out these amazing quotes for travelling alone that will boost your confidence for sure.

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” – Caroline Myss

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” –  Henry Ford

“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

“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good.” —Amy Poehler

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” –  Angelina Jolie

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts

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

FAMOUS SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Below is the list of solo travel quotes that are well-known.

These beautiful quotes about travelling alone have become synonymous with going solo, and I am sure these words are a kind of anthem for those solo travelers out there.

‘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

‘I am willing to put myself through anything. Temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.’ – Diana Nyad

Sometimes, the unknown roads can be daunting.

Traveling by yourself can be a scary feeling as the fear of unknown places envelopes. But this quote about traveling alone positively inspires.

‘I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.’ – Rosalia de Castro

Solo travel is about getting over your comfort zone. Most of us are probably afraid to step out of this zone, but these solo travel quotes below are encouraging.

‘As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.’ – Ella Maillart

Travel changes us in ways that we hardly expect.

It widens our horizons, opens our mind to new perspectives and enriches us. And this is one of the best solo travel quotes that explain this.

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‘I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.’ – Mary Anne Radmacher

‘You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.’ – Sue Fitzmaurice

“Through travel, I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty  

To awaken, quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.  –  Freya Stark

One of the solo travel quotes that speak of the enriching journey is this one below.

‘I learned my strengths and weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between. I gained courage, and I learned it myself ‘ – Ann Stirk

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” – David Hewson

‘I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.’ — Daphne du Maurier

‘It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.’ – Mae Chevrette

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” – Alain de Botton

“The more I travelled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

‘Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.’ – Holly Morris

‘Travel brings power and love back into your life.’ – Rumi

‘I am never alone when I am in a foreign city. It is as if I had become invisible.’ – Storm Jameson

‘There is a kind of magic about going far away and then coming back all changed.’ – Kate Douglas Wiggin

More travel alone quotes for your inspiration.

‘There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.’ – Jack Kerouac

‘Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.’ – Ewan Mcgregor

‘The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.’ – Paul Theroux

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

‘When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.’ – Liberty Hyde Bailey

‘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

‘There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.’ – Mae West

‘Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.’- Libba bray

‘Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.’ – Lovelle Drachman

‘The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.’ – Diane Von Furstenberg

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SOLO FEMALE TRAVEL QUOTES

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 “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” – Dilma Rousseff

“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.” – Kilroy J. Oldster

“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other” – Norma Shearer

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

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

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

QUOTES ON TRAVEL LING ALONE

Below is the list of go solo quotes that are poetic and at the same time inspire us to looking within.

“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.” – Margaret Mead

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning of the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between. This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.” – David Baldacci

“For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.” — Pico Iyer

“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” —Margaret Shepard

“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

MORE INSPIRING SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Whether you are looking for fly solo quotes to feel free like a bird, or inspirational quotes for travelling alone, these solo travel quotes will do the job for you.

‘We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.’ – Anais Nin

‘Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.’ – Robert Frost

‘As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘It is not down in any map; true places never are.’ – Herman Melville

‘And if I’d be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I’d find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.’ ―  Aspen Matis

‘If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.’ – Flemish proverb

‘I had chosen to leave and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.’ – Alison Singh Gee

‘No matter how you travel, it’s still you going.’  –  Jeff Goldblum

‘Travel -The Best Way To Be Lost And Found At The Same Time.’ – Brenna Smith

‘Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.’ –  John Muir

‘If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.’  – Cesare Pavese

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust, and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

‘Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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.’ – Cesare Pavese

‘Travel Doesn’t Become Adventure Until You Leave Yourself Behind.’ – Marty Rubin

‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ – Andre Gorde

‘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

‘You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.’ – Unknown

‘Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.’ –  Gayle Foreman

‘Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.’ –  Unknown

‘Traveling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.’ – Mark Foster

‘I didn’t know where I was going until I got there.’ –  Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed , the author of the best-selling book ‘Wild’ is one of those women with whom I can resonate with. Her journey has been similar to mine, and she beautifully transitions the stages of grief after a loss. Her words are one of the best solo travel quotes for women who are afraid of what lies beyond.

If you are a solo female traveler or someone having second thoughts about traveling alone, you should look up for more about her journey to inspire you.

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“The beautiful thing about going alone is that every triumph is yours, every consequence of every mistake is yours, everything that you have to figure out is on you. That’s a really powerful experience. And sometimes it is beautiful and positive and exciting, and sometimes it’s negative and hard and lonely. I wanted that. I welcomed that.” —Cheryl Strayed

‘If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.’ – Gina Greenlee

‘Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.’ – Alan Keightley

‘Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!’ –  Unknown

‘Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.’ – Roy M. Goodman

“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

SHORT TRAVEL ALONE QUOTES

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“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.” – Ken Poirot

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.” – Paul Cezanne

“Go solo, go far.”

“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.” – Louise Arner Boyd

“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

“Walk your own path and be yourself.” – Joanne Nussbaum

“You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

“If you never go, you’ll never know.”

“Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost.”

“Traveling solo took away my irrational fears.”

“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” – Elizabeth Lim

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” – Aaron Lauritsen

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” – Mary Oliver

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Anthony Robbins

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

AWESOME QUOTES ABOUT TRAVEL ALONE

‘Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.’ – Helen Thayer

‘Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.’ – Simon Raven

‘Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.’ – Suzy Strutner

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‘A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes

‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.’- Helen Keller

‘Sometimes, the journey has to be traveled alone to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.’ – Steven Aitchison

‘The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.’ – Sir Richard Burton

‘The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.’ – Agnes Repplier

‘Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.’ – Neale Donald Walsch

‘Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere will always haunt me.’ – Isabelle Eberhard

‘Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.’ – Matthew Karsten

‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ – Andre Gide

‘The best education I have ever received was through travel.’ – Lisa Ling

SOLO TRIP QUOTES

“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

“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

“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.” – Nico J. Genes

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” — Marie Beynon Ray

“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

“If I would have waited for someone else to join me on my travels, I would still be waiting.”

It is better to see something once than to hear about hundred times. – Russian Proverb

 “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. ” Alain de Botton

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” – Becca Lee

“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.” – Jewel E. Ann

“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.” —Colin Wright

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.” – Aisha Mirza

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” —Paulo Coelho

SOLO RIDE QUOTES 

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr

“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.” – David Cuschieri

 “Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.” – John Masefield

“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.” – Helen S. Rosenau

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” —Roald Dahl

 “I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.” – Alison Singh Gee

“This journey has always been about reaching your own another shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.” – Diana Nyad

“Solo Travel is all about exploring the world and one’s own-self.”

TRAVEL ALONE CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

The below list of Instagram captions are the best solo travel quotes that you can check out.

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how this is not a red herring; it’s a map.” – Gina Greenlee

“A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity.” – Lauren Kleefeld

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

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

“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.” – Albert Camus

“Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!”

“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

“One of the reasons I travel solo: I do not have to share all the delicious food!”

“A traveler should be happy, not perfect!”

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” – Oprah Winfrey

“There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.” – Alphonse De Lamartine

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha

“A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

“I guess I’m too selfish to travel well with other people.” – Alice Steinbach

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.” – Katharine McGee

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

“It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s the magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.” – Timi Nadela

“Being a solo traveler made me an adult.”

UNUSUAL QUOTES ABOUT TRAVELING ALONE

There are some solo travel quotes that might have been missed out in getting their limelight because these are some of the most meaningful thoughts that crossed the minds of people whose passion to explore the horizons of the earth superseded everything.

Here are a few more of these quotes about solo travel.

‘You don’t have to be rich to travel well.’ – Eugene Fodor

‘Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale

‘If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.’ – James Michener

‘The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.’ ― Elizabeth Gilbert

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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.’ – Paul Theroux

‘He travels the fastest who travels alone.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘People don’t take trips, trips take people.’ – John Steinbeck

‘When overseas you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.’ – Clint Borgen

‘Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.’ – Bob Dylan

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.’ – Andrew O’ Hagan

The words above must probably one of the most meaningful solo travel quotes ever said.

‘A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.’ – George A. Moore

‘The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The journey is the reward.’ — Chinese proverb

‘Once you have travelled, 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.

‘After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.’ – Amelia Earhart

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BEST CAPTIONS ABOUT TRAVEL LING ALONE

Bill Bryson is one of the authors that I enjoy reading, and most of the times, he travels solo, which makes his works interesting. In one of the solo travel quotes, he describes what it is like to travel alone

‘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

‘Wanna feel the warm breeze. Sleep under a palm tree. Feel the rush of the ocean. Get onboard a fast train. Travel on a jet plane, far away.’ – Kelly Clarkson 110. ‘To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.’ – Jeanne Moreau

‘We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.’ – Mark Jenkin

‘To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.’ –  Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.’ – Joe Abercrombie

‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.’ – Martin Buber

‘Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.’ –   Pablo Neruda

‘In the depth of winter I final learned that there was in me an invincible summer.’ –  Albert Camus

‘We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.’ – John Hope Franklin

‘Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.’ – Miriam Beard

‘Travel empties everything you have into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.’ – Claire Fontaine

‘I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.’ – Maya Angelou

‘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

‘Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.’ – Frank Borman

‘With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.’ – Sandra Lake

‘One of the great things about travel is you find out how many goods, kind people there are.’ – Edith Wharton

‘It is better to travel well than to arrive.’ – Buddha

‘We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.’ – Gloria Gaither

This exhaustive list of solo travel quotes should inspire you to take that first step. Solo travel can be scary, but it doesn’t have it to be that way. Hope this solo adventure quotes will guide you to tons of happiness.

It’s all in your mind, and once you travel you will realize that traveling by yourself isn’t as scary as you thought it would be. Happy solo travels!

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277 Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions (Embrace Adventure and Independence)

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Embarking on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment , solo female travel has become a remarkable phenomenon that celebrates the spirit of adventure and independence.

From scaling mist-covered mountains to strolling along bustling city streets, women around the world have been venturing into the unknown with courage and determination.

In this collection of solo female travel quotes , we gather insights that capture the essence of these journeys—words that inspire, empower, and remind us that the world is meant to be explored by everyone, regardless of gender.

These quotes not only illuminate the path of solo female travelers but also shed light on the broader message that travel knows no bounds and that the human spirit thrives when challenged by new horizons.

So, if you’re ready to be inspired by the beauty of the world read on for a collection of solo female travel quotes that resonate with adventure, courage, and the allure of the unknown.

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Inspirational Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions

Solo female travel , a realm where known boundaries meet the unknown, is a wellspring of inspiration and courage!

These quotes and captions celebrate women explorers who redefine possibilities and independence with each step. From conquering peaks to navigating cities, these words embody fearless adventure and empowerment .

Let’s delve into the wisdom of these adventurers, igniting aspirations for transformative journeys. This collection encapsulates the beauty and resilience of women embracing inspirational solo travel.

1. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” — Unknown

2. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” — Suzy Strutner

3. “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart

4. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” — Alain de Botton

5. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” — Angelina Jolie

6. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” — Unknown

7. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

8. “Through travel, I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” —  Eudora Welty

9. “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.” — Dilma Rousseff

10. “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

11. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

12. “My alone feels so good I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” — Warsan Shire

13. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” — Nora Roberts

14. “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” — Amy Dodson

15. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” — Henry Ford

16. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” — David McCullough Jr

17. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

18. “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

19. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” — Marie Beynon Ray

20. “If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” — Gloria Steinem

21. “Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good.” — Amy Poehler

22. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia de Castro

23. “I’ve not ceased being fearful, I’ve gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you go too far.” — Erica Jong

24. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” — Unknown

25. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” — Caroline Myss

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Remarkable Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions

Amid the realm of solo female travel, certain moments become indelible , capturing the very essence of exploration and empowerment.

This segment, dedicated to memorable solo female travel quotes , unveils phrases that transport us to distant horizons and kindle the adventurous spirit. These quotes transcend words, offering glimpses into transformative journeys, reinforcing the gender-defying nature of courage, and beckoning us to embark on our own remarkable odysseys.

Within this collection, each quote stands as a testament to the unwavering strength of women navigating the world solo.

26. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” — Maya Angelou

27. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”

28. “Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” — Mae Jemison

29. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” — Marie Beynon Ray

30. “Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” — Natalie Goldberg

31. “You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.” Colin Wright 

32. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener

33. “How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.” — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

34. “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

35. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” — Flemish proverb

36. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

37. “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

38. “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” — Barbara De Angelis

39. “It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning of the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between. This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.” — David Baldacci

40. “Walk your own path and be yourself.”   — Joanne Nussbaum

41. “The beautiful thing about going alone is that every triumph is yours, every consequence of every mistake is yours, everything that you have to figure out is on you. That’s a really powerful experience. And sometimes it is beautiful and positive and exciting, and sometimes it’s negative and hard and lonely. I wanted that. I welcomed that.” — Cheryl Strayed

42. “Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.” — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

44. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” — Paul Theroux

45. “My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” — Rita Golden Gelman

46. “There is a kind of magic about going far away and then coming back all changed.” — Kate Douglas Wiggin

47. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” — Caroline Myss

48. “The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

49. “I learned my strengths and weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between. I gained courage, and I learned it myself.” — Ann Stirk

50. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.” —  Shauna Niequist 

51. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson 

52. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” — Henry Rollins

Short Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions

Picture this: a world of travel captured in bite-sized brilliance!

Short solo female travel quotes are like travel snapshots—brief yet impactful, capturing adventure, courage, and empowerment. These little nuggets of wisdom distill the joy of exploration, the freedom of independence, and the allure of the unknown.

Join us as we dive into a collection of snappy solo female travel quotes that pack a punch, bringing a light and cool breeze of inspiration to fellow wanderers around the globe.

53. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” — Rumi

54. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”

55. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” — Lalah Delia

56. “Go solo, go far.”

57. “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

58. “Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!”

59. “If you never go, you’ll never know.”

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

61. “It is better to see something once than to hear about hundred times.” — Russian proverb

62. “The journey is the reward.” — Chinese proverb

63. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama

64. “Being a solo traveler made me an adult.”

65. “Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale

66. “The best education I have ever received was through travel.” — Lisa Ling

67. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” — Sandra Lake

68. “I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” — Mary Oliver

69. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

70. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis

71. “Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.” — Ken Poirot

72. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

73. “Solo travel is all about exploring the world and one’s own-self.”

74. “No matter how you travel, it’s still you going.” — Jeff Goldblum

75. “Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” — Aaron Lauritsen

76. “Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.” —  John Muir

77. “Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

78. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

79. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” — Margaret Shepard

80. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” — Mary Louise Alcott

81. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.” — Unknown

82. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

83. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

Clever Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions

Get ready to jazz up your travel tales with a touch of wit and a dash of flair !

In this segment, we are diving into a treasure trove of clever solo female travel captions and quotes . These are not your average lines; they are the hip sidekicks to your adventures—injecting humor, sass, and inspiration into your globetrotting stories.

From conquering mountains to navigating city jungles solo, these quotes are the perfect companions. So, buckle up, fellow explorers, as we venture into a collection that’s as cool and hip as your next unforgettable journey!

84. “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” — Angela Vallely

85. “He travels the fastest who travels alone.” — Rudyard Kipling

86. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Erica Jong

87. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

88. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” — Erol Ozan

89. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

90. “To shut your eyes is to travel.” — Emily Dickinson

91. “It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.”   — Jewel E. Ann

92. “There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.” — Alphonse De Lamartine

93. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” — Agnes Repplier

94. “To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.” — Raquel Cepeda

95. “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” — Matthew Karsten

96. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” — Daphne Du Maurier

97. “When overseas you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.” — Clint Borgen

98. “Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost.”

Funny Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions

Ready for a dose of travel hilarity? Look no further! We’re about to dive into a collection of funny solo female travel captions and quotes that add a playful twist to your adventures.

From lost-in-translation moments to quirky encounters, these captions and quotes are the perfect recipe for sharing your solo escapades with a side of laughter.

So, get ready to add a splash of humor to your travel tales and showcase the lighter side of exploring the world on your own terms!

99. “Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.” — Mae West

100. “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” — Erma Bombeck

101. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell

102. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”   — Susan Heller

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

104. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller

105. “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” — Chelsea Handler

106. “I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost; I have never been lost ― I just wasn’t ready to be found.” — Nikki Rowe

107. “The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” — Britney Spears

108. “Traveling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.” — Mark Foster

109. “London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.” — Laura Fraser

110. “One of the reasons I travel solo: I do not have to share all the delicious food!”

111. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag

112. “A traveler should be happy, not perfect!”

113. “I guess I’m too selfish to travel well with other people.” — Alice Steinbach

Famous Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions

Step into the spotlight of solo female empowerment!

We are about to unravel a tapestry of famous solo female captions and quotes that exude a cool, hip vibe. These words, uttered by iconic women explorers, trailblazers, and adventurers, are the very essence of breaking boundaries and embracing independence.

So, buckle up for a journey through the words that have echoed across time and space, inspiring us all to embark on our own epic solo ventures with style and swagger!

114. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” — Roman Payne

115. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gorde

116. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

117. “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

118. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada

119. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” — Helen Keller

120. “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

121. “For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.” — Pico Iyer

122. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”   — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

123. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diane Von Furstenberg

124. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” —  Anthony Bourdain

125. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman

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

127. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Solo Female Travel Quotes About Adventure

Adventure, the heartbeat of solo exploration, calls out to the daring spirits and curious minds!

In this electrifying chapter, we are diving headfirst into a collection of solo female travel quotes that pulse with the thrill of adventure . These quotes are more than words—they are the echoes of courageous souls who have braved the unknown, surfed through uncertainty, and danced with adrenaline.

Get ready to be swept away as we unveil the chorus of voices that celebrate the exhilaration of solo adventures , inspiring us all to embrace the unknown with open arms and fearless hearts.

128. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” — Grace Lichtenstein

129. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

130. “To awaken, quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” — Freya Stark

131. “It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.” — Mae Chevrette

132. “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust, and sprinkle it on my tales.” — Mitali Meelan

133. “What good are wings without the courage to fly?” — Harper Lee

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

135. “I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to – and that is what adventures are all about.” — Trina Schart Hyman

136. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller‘

137. “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” — Jane Austen

138. “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

139. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” — Mark Jenkin

140. “I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to – and that is what adventures are all about.” — Trina Schart Hyman

141. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” — Jaime Lyn Beatty

142. “It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.” — Mae Chevrette

143. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” — Ewan Mcgregor

144. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” — Isabelle Eberhardt

145. “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” — Micheline Jean Louis

146. “One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.” — Sarah Glidden

147. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” — Lovelle Drachman

148. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

149. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” — Norma Shearer

Solo Female Journey Quotes and Captions

Get ready to dive into a realm of fierce independence and boundless horizons!

In this collection, we are immersing ourselves in solo female journey quotes and captions that radiate a cool and confident vibe. These words are the echoes of women who have ventured solo, mapping their own paths and weaving stories of resilience and discovery.

Join us on this voyage as we uncover a symphony of voices that inspire us all to embrace the journey, celebrate our individuality, and embrace the world on our own terms.

150. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” — Martin Buber

151. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”  — Anthony Robbins

152. “We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” — Gloria Gaither

153. “Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” — Ron Franscell

154. “Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.” — Aisha Mirza

157. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton 

158. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” — John Hope Franklin

159. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” — Nitin Namdeo

160. “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” — Anthon St. Maarten

161. “Once you have travelled, 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

162. “Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” — Pablo Neruda

163. “Sometimes, the journey has to be traveled alone to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” — Steven Aitchison

164. “Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale

165. “Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.” — Nico J. Genes

166. “All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey.” — Charlotte Eriksson

167. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

168. “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” — Debasish Mridha

169. “You have to get lost before you can be found.” — Jeff Rasley

170. “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” — Margaret Mead

171. “Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.” —  Helen S. Rosenau

Solo Female Wanderlust Quotes

Ever felt that magnetic pull toward the unknown? If wanderlust runs through your veins, you are in for a treat!

Brace yourself as we journey into a world of solo female wanderlust quotes that exude a cool, untamed spirit. These quotes are not just words; they are the echoes of souls who find their compass in curiosity and their thrill in the uncharted.

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

173. “As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.” — Robin S. Sharma

174. “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” — Gael Attal

175. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

176. “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus 

177. “The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” — Paul Theroux

178. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia De Castro

179. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” — Roald Dahl

180. “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere will always haunt me.” — Isabelle Eberhardt

181. “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer

182. “I am willing to put myself through anything. Temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.” — Diana Nyad

183. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” — Oprah Winfrey

184. “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

185. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” — Frank Borman

186. “I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.” — Roman Payne

187. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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.” — Cesare Pavese

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

189. “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

Travel Alone Quotes and Captions

Imagine setting foot on a path solely your own , with the world as your canvas and possibilities as vast as the horizon.

Welcome to the realm of solo adventurers !

In this collection, we dive deep into travel alone quotes and captions that radiate a cool, independent energy. These are not just words—they are the whispers of those who have embraced solitude and crafted their narratives with fearless strokes.

190. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

191. “If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them — that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.” — Freya Stark

192. “Solo travel… it forces you to trust yourself, question yourself, and in turn, trust yourself even more.” — Brooke Saward

193. “Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.” — Paul Cezanne

194. “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

195. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

196. “Solo travel is all about exploring the world and one’s own-self.”

197. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” — Alain de Botton

198. “Walk your own path and be yourself.” — Joanne Nussbaum

199. “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” — Gina Greenlee

200. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz

201. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” — Ray Bradbury

202. “The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth

203. “Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s the magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.” — Timi Nadela

204. “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” — Ken Poirot

205. “The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.” — Andrew O’ Hagan

206. “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton

207. “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

Solo Female Travel Life Quotes

Life is a journey, and for those who choose to embark on it solo, the path becomes a canvas of endless possibilities.

In this collection, we delve into the heart of solo female travel life quotes that encapsulate the essence of this daring lifestyle. These quotes are more than mere words—they are reflections of souls who have embraced the art of solitary exploration.

Join us as we traverse through the wisdom of those who have made the world their playground, and discover how the journey of a solo female traveler becomes a testament to the vibrant tapestry of life itself.

208. “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

209. “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

210. “Traveling 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 Teran

211. “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

212. “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” — Joe Abercrombie 

214. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” — Sandra Lake

215. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” — George A. Moore

216. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” — Alan Keightley 

217. “If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.” — Margaret Mead

218. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai

219. “On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

220. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” — Jack Kerouac

221. “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.” — Jeanne Moreau

222. “After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.” — Amelia Earhart

223. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Miriam Beard

224. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

225. “Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

226. “Travel empties everything you have into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.” — Claire Fontaine

227. “Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

228. “And if I’d be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I’d find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.” — Aspen Matis

229. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux

Solo Female Travel Quotes About Self Discovery

Beneath the surface of solo travel lies a hidden treasure: the profound journey of self-discovery .

In this collection, we are delving into solo female travel quotes that unveil the transformative power of wandering alone. These quotes are not just reflections—they are echoes of explorers who have embarked on a quest to unearth their own depths.

From remote corners of the world to inner landscapes, these words unveil the exquisite dance of self-exploration. Join us as we embark on a voyage of inner revelation, guided by the voices of those who’ve embraced solo travel as a mirror to their souls. These quotes invite us to explore not only new lands but also the uncharted territories within ourselves.

230. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.” — Oprah Winfrey

231. “Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.” — Katharine McGee

232. “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

234. “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” — Gina Greenlee

235. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” — Pablo Holmberg

236. “This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” — Becca Lee

237. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale 

238. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck 

239. “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” — Paulo Coelho

240. “Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.” — Maya Angelou

241. “Through travel, I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my introspective way into becoming a part of it.” — Eudora Welty

242. “It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” — David Hewson

243. “I had chosen to leave and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.” — Alison Singh Gee

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

245. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” — Robert Frost

246. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” — Herman Melville

247. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin

248. “Travel — the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” — Brenna Smith

249. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” — Daphne du Maurier

250. “Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.” — Helen Thayer

251. “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” — Angela Vallely

252. “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” — Ella Maillart

253. “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

Solo Female Travel Quotes About Never Giving Up and Being Fearless

Imagine a symphony of courage, an orchestra of resilience—welcome to the realm of solo female travel quotes that pulse with unwavering determination and fearlessness.

In this collection, we delve into the words that inspire us never to give up , to stare uncertainty in the eye, and to keep marching forward.

Join us as we embark on a journey through the voices of those who epitomize fearless exploration, and let their quotes become the soundtrack to your own unyielding quest for triumph.

254. “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

255. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” — Margaret Shepard

256. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done, does away with fear.” — Rosa Parks

257. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” — Mary Louise Alcott

258. “Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth

259. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” — Caroline Myss

260. “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” — Amy Dodson

261. “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” — Anita Septimus

262. “Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” — Brene Brown

263. “If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” — Gloria Steinem

264. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity; we have only this moment — sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” — Marie Beyon Ray

265. “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

266. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

267. “What good are wings without the courage to fly?” — Harper Lee

268. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” — Anna Quindlen

269. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.” — Cheryl Strayed

270. “It’s ok to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” — Mandy Hale

271. “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” — Kirsten Hubbard

272. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” — Babs Hoffman

273. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” — Elizabeth Benedict

274. “Do not fear failure, but please, be terrified of regret.” — Deshauna Barber

275. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

276. “I’ve not ceased being fearful, I’ve gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you go too far.” — Erica Jong

277. “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” — Debasish Mridha

Intrepid Scout's Favorite Solo Female Travel Quotes and Captions

Here are some of my favorite solo female travel quotes:

• “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” — Nora Roberts
• “If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” — Gloria Steinem
• “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” — Amy Dodson

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134 funny quotes that are laugh-out-loud good

Laughter is arguably the best medicine.

When life feels gloomy, a dose of humor is the easiest way to brighten up your day.

In fact, studies show that laughter actually has real-life health benefits: a good giggle can decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety. Even forced laughter can improve your mood — look in the mirror and chuckle at yourself, and you might be surprised at how much better you feel.

If that doesn't do the trick, it's time to bring in the experts. Cue up an episode of Larry David's hilarious show "Curb Your Enthusiasm," watch old specials from classic comics like George Carlin , or put on a comedy podcast during your morning commute.

Laughter is contagious, so bring your high spirits with you wherever you go. With a well-timed wisecrack (you can even borrow some from this list), your sense of humor is sure to brighten your coworkers, family , friends, and loved ones' days.

Whether you're looking for a mood boost on a bad day, some inspiration for your water cooler chats, or just a little extra amusement , these hilarious quotes are sure to tickle your fancy.

Read on for 135 funny quotes about life, work, and family that are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud.

Best funny quotes

• “Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired.” — Sandra Bullock 
• “Keep calm and carry a wand.” — A.W. Jantha, “Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel”
• “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” — George Carlin
• “If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.” — Ace Ventura, “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”
• “I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet.” —Carrie Bradshaw, “Sex and the City”
• “The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last.” — Willy Wonka, “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”

• “Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” — Robin Williams 
• “Don’t be so humble — you are not that great.” ― Golda Meir
• “If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” ― Judith Martin
• “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” ― Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
• “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde
• “In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.” — Fran Lebowitz

• “Instant gratification takes too long.” ― Carrie Fisher
• “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” ― Bo Derek
• “So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.” — Neil Gaiman
• “I’m not good at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?” — Chandler Bing , “Friends”
• “I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” ― Mitch Hedberg

• “I’d love to stand here and talk with you...but I’m not going to.” — Phil Connors, “Groundhog Day”
• “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz
• “People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” — Joan Rivers
• “I’m not offended by blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb…and I also know that I’m not blonde.” —Dolly Parton
• “It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office.” — Shirley MacLaine
• “I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I don’t really remember yesterday all that well.” — Dory, “Finding Dory” 

• “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ― Terry Pratchett, “Diggers”
• “To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs.” — Wanda, “A Fish Called Wanda"
• “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” ― Isaac Asimov
• “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” ― George Carlin
• “I’m not superstitious…but I am a little stitious.” — Michael Scott, “The Office”
• “Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?” — Jay Leno

Funny family quotes

• “I’m sure wherever my Dad is, he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.” — Jack Whitehall
• “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” — Will Ferrell
• “I’d like to have a kid, but I’m not sure I’m ready to spend 10 years of my life constantly asking someone where his shoes are.” — Damien Fahey
• “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.” — Phyllis Diller
• “My husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should have taken a second look.” — Halley Reed, “Crimes and Misdemeanors” 
• “When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.” ― Erma Bombeck

• “When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.” ― Rodney Dangerfield
• “As I learned from growing up, you don’t mess with your grandmother.” — Prince William
• “I’m not insane. My mother had me tested.” —Sheldon Cooper, “The Big Bang Theory”
• “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” — Rita Rudner
• “Good parenting means investing in your child’s future, which is why I am saving to buy mine a hoverboard someday.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
• “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” ― P. J. O’Rourke

• “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” — Nora Ephron
• “You can kid the world, but not your sister.” ― Charlotte Gray
• “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” ― Mae West
• “There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.” — Jerry Seinfeld
• “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” ― George Bernard Shaw, “Immaturity”

• The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” — George Carlin
• “The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.” — Oscar Wilde
• “Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.” — Pauline Thomason
• “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” — George Burns
• “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” ― P.J. O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World
• “The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.” — Shirley MacLaine

Funny quotes on aging

• “People say, ‘How you stay looking so young?’ I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup.” — Dolly Parton
• “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” — Bob Hope
• “My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.’” ― Rose Nylund, “Golden Girls”
• “You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.” ― George Burns
• “People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends, I need a Ouija board.” —Betty White
• “A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.” — Graham Norton

• “I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. Number two was death. This means to the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.” — Jerry Seinfeld
• “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” — Theodore Roosevelt
•  “You know you’ve reached middle age when you’re cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.” — Joan Rivers
• “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” ― Isaac Asimov
• “As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” ― Norman Wisdom
• “Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” — Redd Foxx

• “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” ― Yogi Berra, “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball’s Greatest Heroes”
• “I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.” — George Carlin
• “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” — Lucille Ball
• “Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” ― Luis Buñuel
• “It must be around forty, when you’re “over the hill.” I don’t even know what that means and why it’s a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I’m past the hard part and there’s a snack in my future. That’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “Death is nature’s way of saying, “Your table is ready.” — Robin Williams

Funny nature quotes

• “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” — Mindy Kaling, “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?”
• “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin
• Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’” — Steven Wright

• “I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” ― Noel Coward
• “Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.” — Ellen DeGeneres
• “It was so beautiful today that I only watched four hours of ‘Law & Order’ in my apartment.” — John Mulaney
• “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” — Jack Handey

Funny well-being quotes

• “My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.” ― Tina Fey , “Bossypants”
• “Reality continues to ruin my life.” ― Bill Watterson, “The Complete Calvin and Hobbes”
• “Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn’t allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, Jazzercise; 6:30, dinner with me — I can’t cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing...I’m booked.” — The Grinch, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
• “Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!” — Charlie Brown
• “When I’m in social situations, I always hold onto my glass. It makes me feel comfortable and secure, and I don’t have to shake hands.” — Larry David

• ​​“My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.” — Garry Shandling
• “People can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys.” —Mike Bechtle
• “People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass.” — Sophia Petrillo, “The Golden Girls”
• “Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.” — Bo Bennett
• “From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.” — Jarod Kintz

• “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
• “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
• “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.” — William Gibson
• “My therapist says I’m afraid of success. I guess I could understand that, because after all, fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting-around time.” — Maria Bamford
• “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” ― James Branch Cabell, “The Silver Stallion”

• “Why can’t you just be happy for me and then go home and talk behind my back later like a normal person?” —Lillian Donovan, “Bridesmaids”
• “Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.” ― Quentin Crisp
• “I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to keep out of those places.” — Rodney Dangerfield
• “I’m not crazy — I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.” — Ouiser Boudreaux, “Steel Magnolias”
• “Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.” — Philip K. Dick
• “I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back.” — Jimmy Kimmel

Funny work quotes

• “Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben
• “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” — Douglas Adams
• “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” ― Charles Lamb
• “I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ― Jerome K. Jerome 
• “When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’” — Don Marquis
• “By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.” — Miranda Priestly, “The Devil Wears Prada”

• “Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
• “Trying is the first step toward failure.” — Homer Simpson, “The Simpsons”
• “Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” — Don Herold
• “By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.” — Robert Frost
• “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” ― Mark Twain
• “If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it.” — George Burns

• “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
• “Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.” — Paula Poundstone
• “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” ― Walter Payton
• “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields
• “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
• “When in doubt, look intelligent.” — Garrison Keillor

• “Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley
• “Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
• “An office is a place to live life to the fullest, to the max. An office is a place where dreams come true.” — Michael Scott, “The Office”
• “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” ― Rita Mae Brown, “Alma Mater”
• “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” ― John Gotti 
• “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” — Douglas Adams

• “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vince Lombardi 
• “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
• “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates
•  “When I was growing up, I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
• “Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
• “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ― Muhammad Ali
• “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.” — William Faulkner 
• “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” ― Mark Twain
• “If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’” — Dave Barry
• “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” ― A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”
• “No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx

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