20 Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

Written By Holly Duncan

A love and longing for travel exists in so many of us. If you’re reading this, I’m willing to bet a feeling of wanderlust has struck you a time or two.

The best writers have also been struck with this feeling often, and put it into words for the rest of us.

Here are 20 quotes to fuel your own feelings of wanderlust.

  • “There was no where to go but everywhere, so keep on rolling under the stars.” - Jack Kerouac

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

  • “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

  • “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain

  • “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” - Dalai Lama

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

  • “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” - Anaïs Nin

  • “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” - David Mitchell

  • “Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” - Jamie Lyn Beatty

  • “Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” - Anthony Bourdain

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

  • “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” - John Green

  • “Travel is the only things you buy that makes you richer.” - Russell Paterson

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

  • “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” - Paula Bendfelt

  • “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” - Lewis Carroll

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

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

  • “If we were meant to saty in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.” - Michelle Wolchin

  • “No matter how you travel, how ‘successful’ your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.” - Jack Kerouac

I hope you have enjoyed these quotes and found inspiration to plan your next adventure.

What are some of your favourite travel quotes? Let me know!

Holly Duncan
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