Not all types of travel are made equal.

They’re all amazing! Yet each variation, from traveling with a group of strangers to traveling with your family, comes with its own unique ups, downs, and idiosyncrasies.

My personal favourite?

Solo travel.

You just can’t beat it. Exploring new places by yourself is always magical, liberating, and memorable. You can come and go at will, step forth into the thrill of the unknown, blessed at all times with the inconspicuousness of being alone and alien in a foreign land.

But it’s hard at times too, which is why I love quotes about traveling alone so much.

When you’re tired, lonely, and faced with the myriad challenges that come from finding your way around a new destination, the insights, inspiration, and observations of others can offer a powerful reprieve.

Solo trip quotes can shed light on a situation, put words to the world’s wonders, and inspire you to keep going whenever times get tough.

Are you on the hunt for any of those outcomes?

Well, this post should help. I’ve curated a long list of the best traveling alone quotes I could find. Check them out to be inspired!

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110 Quotes About Traveling Alone

I’ve broken the coming travel solo quotes into sections, starting with 20 of my favourites. As you work your way through them all, I hope you find exactly what you were looking for.

My Favourite Quotes for Travelling Alone

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

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

3. “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

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

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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

9. “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

10. “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

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

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

13. “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

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

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

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

17. “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

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

19. “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

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

Insightful Traveling Alone Quotes

21. “London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.” – Laura Fraser

22. “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

23. “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

24. “My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” — Warsan Shire

25. “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

26. “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

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

28. “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

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

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

Inspiring Travel Solo Quotes

31. “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

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

33. “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

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

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

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

37. “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

38. “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

39. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor

40. “Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.” – Howard Gardner

Insightful Quotes for Travelling Alone

41. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

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

43. “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

44. “As you travel solo, totally responsible for yourself, it is inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.” – Unknown

45. “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

46. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

47. “Travel changers 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

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

49. “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

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

Memorable Solo Travel Quotes

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

52. “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

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

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

55. “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

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

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

58. “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

59. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

60. “I used to be a pedestrian before, now I am the rider on the same road.” – Piyush Paudyal

Beautiful Quotes On Solo Travel

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

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

63. “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten

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

65. “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

66. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money!” – Susan Heller

67. “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

68. “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.” – Alain de Botton

69. “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 become friends.” – Maya Angelou

70. “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

Short Solo Trip Quotes

71. “So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

72. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

73. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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

75. “Travel far enough to meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

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

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

78. “Walk your own path and be yourself.” – Joanne Nussbaum

79. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

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

81. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

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

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

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

85. “Dare to live the life you always wanted.” – Unknown

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

87. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

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

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

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

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Educational Quotes Travel Alone

91. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

92. “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

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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.” – David Cuschieri

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

99. “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

100. “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

101. “All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

102. “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

103. “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

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

105. “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

106. “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

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

108. “A mind that is stretches by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

109. “It is better to see something once, than to hear about it a hundred times.” – Russian Proverb

110. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

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Enjoy These Solo Trip Quotes

Traveling the world by yourself will leave an indelible mark on your mind and soul. It’s just an unforgettable experience, defined by trials, self-discoveries, life lessons, and outlandish encounters.

There’s no denying it, though. Solo travel can be difficult at times too. You’ll miss home, feel outside your comfort zone, unsure of yourself, and unclear what you’re actually doing!

And in these moments, where you have more questions than answers and need something to strengthen your resolve, having some quotes about traveling alone to call upon can make all the difference. With that in mind, I hope this long list of solo trip quotes will provide all of the inspiration, insights, and reassurance you could ever need on the road!

Did you have a favourite? Drop a comment below to let me know.

Or, if you’re looking for even more quotes like these, click here to discover some epic quotes about traveling with friends.

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