27 Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Here are 27 quotes about travel that might just stir your soul and fuel your wanderlust:

1. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. – Diane Arbus

2. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

3. If you look like your passport photo, then in all probability you need the journey. – Earl Wilson

4. Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you’re off, that’s all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

5. Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. – Katherine Mansfield

6. A journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck

7. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. – Martin Buber

8. If you don't know where you're going, you wind up somewhere else. – Yogi Berra

9. There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords. – Edith Durham

10. Why is it the place you want to go to is always under the staple of the road atlas? – Advertisement, Prudential Insurance

11. Put me on a moving train if I'm sick, and I'll get well. It's good for mind and body to get out and see the world. – Maria D. Brown

12. It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut. – Stanislaw J. Lec

13. The true traveller is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. – Colette

14. Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright

15. He travelled in order to come home. – William Trevor

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

17. -Why do you always travel third class? -Because there's no fourth class. – Interviewer and George Santayana

18. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman

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

20. Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly. – Edward Albee

21. Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom. – Louise Nevelson

22. You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. – Japanese proverb

23. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

24. The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot

25. The road is better than the inn. – Cervantes

26. Every moment is travel if understood. – Benjamin Disraeli

27. If you go only once round the room, you are wiser than he who sits still. – Estonian proverb

Whether you're a seasoned globetrotter or dreaming of your first adventure, we hope these quotes provide a spark of inspiration.

Which one resonates most with your travel dreams?