85 Best Solo Travel Quotes You Don’t Want to Miss

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Are you getting ready to embark on an exciting adventure and looking for solo travel quotes to get you ready? You have come to the right place because this blog post is all about solo travel. In this post you will find traveling solo quotes to help you step out of your comfort zone and see the world. I can promise you these solo travel captions will ignite your desire to discover the world alone.

Solo Travel Quotes

1. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
– Erol Ozan

2. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”
Nitin Namdeo
3. It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.”
– Anthon St. Maarten

4. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

5. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.”

Oprah Winfrey

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

Poetic quotes about solo travel

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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…

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

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

14. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

15. “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

16. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.”
– Lalah Delia

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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”

– Matshona Dhliwayo

21. “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 gives you a new perspective of the world.

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

23. “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

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

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

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

27. “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

Making Friends along the way.

28. “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

Go where you feel most alive.

29. “Don’t keep waiting for someone to travel with you because you may never travel anywhere!”

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

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

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

33. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

Stop waiting for others to travel with you!

36. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius

37. “How will you know, if you never go and explore?”
“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

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

39. “I discovered that I prefer to collect experiences rather than things.” – Susan Moore

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

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41. “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

42. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!”
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

43. “Only one who wanders finds new paths.”

44. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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

 Traveling solo and getting to know yourself

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

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

48. “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

49. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

50. “You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly” – Colin Wright

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

Traveling alone is about personal growth.

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

53. “This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.” – Diana Nyad

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

55. “The past is in your head. The future is in your hands.”

56. Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations. Suzy Strutner.
Solo travel pushes you out of your comfort zone AND others’ expectations

57. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

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

59. “There’s no right way or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should give solo travel a try at least once in their life.” – Susan Moore

60. “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

61. “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Francis Burton

62. “You are never too old to start traveling solo.” – Susan Moore

63. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. 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

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Ready to come home? Here are a few Solo travel quotes to mark the end of a journey

64. “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

65. “It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.”
– Jewel E. Ann

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

67. “The real work of an expedition begins when you return.”
– Louise Arner Boyd

68. “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

69. “I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.”
– Elizabeth Lim

70. “Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”
– Katharine McGee

72. “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.

73. “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

74. “Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” — Natalie Goldberg

75. “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

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

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

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

79. You must go on adventures to find out where you belong – Sue Fitzmaurice.
Solo travel adventure quote

80. “Solo travel builds confidence.”

81. “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

82. “Go where you feel most alive.”

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

84. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock” – Erica Jong

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

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