15 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

This morning, I struggled to come up with the ‘perfect’ new blogpost. In midst of my frustration, it dawned on me that I’ve forgotten the reason why I’m doing this at all! My love and passion for exploration. Which leads to this heartfelt compilation of 15 Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust.

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✐ I chose each of these quotes carefully. They are not your ordinary run of the mill cliché quotes. Or ones that you’ve seen or read a thousands times. Each one of these inspirations are personally felt and connected to me in some way. Enjoy!

#1

“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

#2

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

Anaïs Nin

#3

“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

 

#4

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”

Agnes Repplier

#5

“Traveling is the great true love of my life…I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby – I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me.” 

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6

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

Roman Payne

#7

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

Kahlil Gibran

#8

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

Anthony Bourdain

#9

“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

#10

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

Pico Iyer

 

#11

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”

Charles Bukowski

           

#12

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.”

Patrick Rothfuss

#13

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”

Danzy Senna

#14

“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

#15

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there- with your eyes open- and lived to see it.”

Anthony Bourdain

 

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