Last Updated on: 5th August 2021, 12:24 pm
I absolutely love travel quotes, don’t yous?. So whether you’re looking for the best travel quotes for Instagram captions, travel Whatsapp statuses, inspirational cards for friends and family, or just to save for yourself, here are over 250 of my favorite travel quotes of all time.
When you’re done, check out my collections of travel quotes by country, plus passport quotes to kick your trip off right!
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Short Travel Quotes
- To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
2. The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.
3. You lose sight of things and when you travel, everything balances out.
4. Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.
5. Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.
6. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
7. Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
Inspirational Travel Quotes
8. For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
9. 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.
10. I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
11. Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
12. 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
13. Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.
Ross Morley
14. I reject the idea that we have to pay bills and die…Anyone can travel, you just have to want it to work so badly that it is your whole life.
Victoria Yore
Famous Travel Quotes
15. Traveling it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
16. Not all those who wander are lost.
17. Take only memories, leave only footprints.
18. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
19. I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.
20. Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.
21. I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way.
Motivational Travel Quotes
23. One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
24. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.
25. 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.
26. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
Quotes on How to Be a Good Traveler
27. Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.
28. Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience and the best travelers… seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.
Paul Fussell
29. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
30. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
31. It is better to travel well than to arrive.
32. Unsustainable travel is scary.
33. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
34. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
35. Traveling responsibly is about compassion, and this includes keeping our privilege in check in situations where it’s so easy to default to judgment or condescension.
36. He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little, and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
Sinclair Lewis
Travel and Food Quotes
37. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
38. Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
Guy Fieri
39. I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin
Quotes about Travel and Life and Travel Life Quotes
40. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give. To roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.
41. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
42. Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
43. To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.
44. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
45. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.
Quotes about Coming Home after Travel
46. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
47. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
48. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
49. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
50. When overseas you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.
Clint Borgen
51. The constant movement started to grind down on my body and mind, and I realized by the end that I longed for the comfort and normalcy of home.
52. It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.
Selma Lagerlöf
53. An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
Iain Sinclair
54. I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.
Rick Steves
Travel Memories Quotes
55. It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!
56. Let your memory be your travel bag.
57. Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
58. Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.
Robert Thomas Allen
59. Be careful whom you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.
Ugo Eze
Quotes about How Travel Changes You
60. Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you or unmaking you.
61. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
62. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
63. If you let it, travel will trample your assumptions, unceremoniously throwing them out the door before opening your eyes to the complexity of people and cultures.
64. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
65. To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
66. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
67. Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
68. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.
69. One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
70. 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 even become friends.
71. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
72. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
73. We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
74. I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
75. The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
Quotes about Travel and Love
76. Travel brings power and love back into your life.
77. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
78. We travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in and fall in love once more.
79. Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.
Anonymous
80. I’m in love with cities I have never been to and people I have never met.
Anonymous
Romantic and Couple Travel Quotes
81. A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
82. Why should a relationship mean settling down? Wait for someone who won’t let life escape you, who’ll challenge you and drive you towards your dreams. Someone spontaneous who you can get lost in the world with. A relationship, with the right person, is a release, not a restriction.
Beau Taplin
83. Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.
Lewis Carroll
84. That is why the best trips like best love affairs, never really end.
Pico Iyer
85. What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.
Robert Brault
86. Couples that rave together, stay together. So what about those who live in each other’s pockets, on limited money, with no GPS for a number of months? Long term travel in relationships is a test.
87. Will you give me yourself? Will you come to travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
Walt Whitman
88. Chasing goals (and waterfalls) keeps us always looking in the same direction.
89. Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you
John Green
90. Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go to places that are hard to get to and hard to get out of. And when you come back… and if you’re still in love with that person… get married at the airport.
Bill Murray
91. Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.
Beau Taplin
92. The luxury of having days where we are utterly, blissfully content to be spending time together in a beautiful place, and where we can…honestly answer the question “What did you do today?” with “Not much.”
93. I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.
E. Grin
Funny Travel Quotes
94. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
Alton Brown
David Sedaris
Jon Ronson
99. The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.
Dave Barry
Quotes for Travelers
100. Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each other’s journey, but knowing that the journey we make will be our own.
101. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
102. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
103. Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
104. The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
105. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.
106. The journey not the arrival matters.
107. I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads.
108. When was the last time you did something for the first time?
John C. Maxwell
Quotes about Travelers
109. Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.
Italo Calvino
110. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
111. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
112. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
113. A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
114. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing.
115. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
116. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
117. Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
118. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Luggage & Travel Packing Quotes
122. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
123. Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.
124. Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac
125. If I’d learnt one thing from traveling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don’t talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.
Alex Garland
126. Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.
Yogi Berra
Quotes about Travel with Kids and Family
127. What child has not travelled by spinning the globe?
Anonymous
128. There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
Robert Benchley
129. Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
130. Kid, you’ll move mountains.
Dr. Seuss
Quotes about Jetlag
131. A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.
J.D. Andrews
132. Jet lag is for amateurs.
133. I refer to jet lag as ‘jet-psychosis’ – there’s an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
134. My heart has jet lag.
135. The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow.
136. I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn’t speak the language or know what the food was like.
137. Five hours’ New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
Quotes about World Travel
138. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
139. Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.
Freya Stark
140. I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
141. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure.
142. When I can’t be off exploring other countries I like to read about them.
143. I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
144. There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.
Anonymous
145. The most beautiful thing in the world, is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
146. Once in a while, it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley
147. As human beings, we’re awfully fond of forming opinions from the comfort of our couches and making grand arguments about places we’ve never been, supported only by the warm glow of our laptops.
148. 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. 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
Quotes about Safe Travel
149. If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.
Seth Godin
150. The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.
Psalm 121:7-8
151. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
152. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd
153. Then you will go safely on your way, and you will not hurt your foot. When you lie down, you will not be afraid. As you lie there, your sleep will be sweet.
Proverbs 3:23-24
Quotes on Traveling Alone and Solo Travel Quotes
154. I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.
Daphne Du Maurier
155. 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
156. It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
David Hewson
157. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
158. 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.
159. 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
160. 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
161. The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.
Alan Ashley-Pitt
162. He travels the fastest who travels alone.
163. There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.
Mandy Hale
164. I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Storm Jameson
Travel Quotes about Women
165. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Mae West
166. Just Because YOU Don’t Hike In A Skirt Doesn’t Mean It Is Unrealistic Or Bad
167. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a b****. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou
168. As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
169. I have experienced sexism and threats while abroad, for the simple fact that I lack a Y chromosome.
170. An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer
Friends and Travel Buddy Quotes
171. The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
172. I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.
Leonardo DiCaprio
173. Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
174. Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras
175. It doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you.
Anonymous
176. Where you lead, I will follow.
Carole King
177. Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Spanish Proverb
178. As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.
A.A. Milne
179. We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
180. When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes
181. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
Izaak Walton
182. A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.
Tim Cahill
183. What matters is the journey and the joy of sharing it with friends.
Mark Twain Travel Quotes
184. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
185. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.
186. I have found out there is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
187. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
188. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
189. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Mark Twain
190. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes
191. If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. It’s a plus for everybody.
Anthony Bourdain
192. Travel changes 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
193. When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.
Anthony Bourdain
194. 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 McDonald’s? 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?
Anthony Bourdain
195. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
Anthony Bourdain
196. To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.
Anthony Bourdain
197. 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
198. I travel around the world, eat a lot of s—, and basically do whatever the f— I want.
Anthony Bourdain
199. Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
Anthony Bourdain
200. 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
Adventure Travel Quotes
201. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
202. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
203. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
204. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
205. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
206. Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.
207. The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.
208. Adventure is worthwhile.
209. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
210. Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
211. If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority.
Richard Branson
212. Jobs fill your pocket, Adventures fill your soul.
Jaime Lyn Beatty
Quotes about Train Travel
213. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
214. I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.
215. The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn’t really in the whistle—it is in you.
216. Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.
217. The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
218. My idea of hell is being crammed on a subway with no air-conditioning.
Road Trip Quotes
219. Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt
220. Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?
Sam Witwicky
221. Too often…I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L’Amour
222. You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt
223. The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
William Least Heat Moon
Quotes about Airports and Airplane Travel
224. Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Al Boliska
225. Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore
226. It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport’.
Douglas Adams
227. There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous.
Theo Cowan
228. You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
Paul Theroux
229. A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse… and thinks of home.
Carl Burns
Bike Travel Quotes
230. You don’t know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.
Laura Trott
231. I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
Bill Walton
232. When the flowers start blooming, I like to ride my bike.
Ravyn Lenae
233. I am a bike enthusiast; there’s a certain amount of romance to bikes. They’re both beautiful and utilitarian.
Dave Eggers
Travel Money Quotes
234. You don’t have to be rich to travel well.
Eugene Fodor
235. How did you save £10K each? A question asked often. Mainly by asking myself ‘Canada or crap, Gemma?’
Travel Industry Quotes
236. In the year of our Lord, 2019 it is still possible to walk into an entire conference event and be met with a panel of white people talking about the importance of diversity in travel.
237. Having a range of voices, background experiences, and knowledge enhances everyone’s experience.
238. No one wants to feel like they are a second class human being. No one wants to feel as though their marriage and their love does not matter. It’s about safety and comfort… and feeling welcome. Whether we like to admit it or not, gay travelers face different issues than other travelers.
239. I don’t care how good the brunch or $33 chopped salad is! Find a brunch spot whose owners support women’s rights & LGBTQ rights.
240. Dear organizations: Please understand how vitally important inclusiveness is. It’s got to matter and be a priority.
241. There was so much chatter about numbers, page rank, do-follow links, bots, and the like. What there wasn’t much talk of, was travel. This is a job (and nowhere was that more evident than on this trip) and all of the technical nitty gritty is important, but there has to be happy medium. You have to still enjoy traveling at a bare minimum right?
242. Can you imagine, a group of beautiful, successful, black women RELUCTANT to celebrate and help another Queen elevate her brand?! Because of “Followers”… I was disgusted and deflated… In a world where being a person of color is already difficult, why would we make it tough on each other?
243. It is still possible to have to endure the writing of white people in African nations, Latin America, the Middle East, and black Caribbean islands talking about “them” and “their” lives and what we should expect from “there,” tolerate narratives that lack knowledge, perspective, awareness, or respect.
244. Now, gay travel also matters because we need representation out there in the world. Attitudes don’t change by all of us hiding in our closets.
245. YAS GURL. Many gay guys like camping just as much as a heterosexual guy. Gay guys enjoy pitching tents and eating weiners by the fire just as much as straight guys… See what I did there?
246. I watched several people complain along with the rest of us (and rightfully so), and then turn around and post about the wonderful completely amazing once in a lifetime best experience ever they were having #liveauthentic.
247. I write about what I know. I don’t make lists of music festivals to see around the world that I’ve never attended myself. And I certainly don’t write about places that don’t inspire me. I write about places that remind me why I love traveling.
Travel Photograph Quotes & Quotes for Instagram
248. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
249. We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.
Anonymous
250. Sometimes, scrolling through Instagram feels a bit like Groundhog Day. Cinque Terre. Mykonos. Marrakech. A Daniel Wellington watch. Iceland. A smoothie bowl.The Maldives. A manicured hand cradling some latte art. And repeat.
251. I travel because seeing photos in brochures wasn’t good enough for me. It was to be there, that was everything.
Wiremu Ratcliffe
252. I’ll never be glamorous enough (or have the energy) to bring wardrobe changes on hikes for Instagram, or the thigh gap and perfect hair to make that worthwhile, or the patience to Photoshop all of the people out of city streets, or the will power to do a full photo shoot before diving into my dinner.
253. I think we encourage a really unattainable version of travel: whimsical, problem-free, curated perfection. No wonder Instagram is considered by psychologists to be the worst form of social media for mental health.
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254. The thing is, stuff goes wrong all the time when you travel.
255. Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.
Kurt Vonnegut
256. Never let these setbacks stop you from chasing your dreams! After all, life on the road is colorful once you stop painting your world black.
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Nice post, Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome!
Waving a big hello to you, friend! A compilation of best travel quotes. My favorite one is by – Wiremu Ratcliffe “I travel because seeing photos in brochures wasn’t good enough for me. It was to be there, that was everything.” Looking forward to hearing from you more
Yes that’s a great one! Thanks!
Wow, a fabulous collection of great quotes. This must have taken forever to pull together. My personal favourite is on here. #187. It’s even on my home page.
Oh , I love these! Definitely need to revisit this to appreciate again and again
I love collecting these too! I find they really help when I’m wondering why I’m going to all this fuss and trouble to travel sometimes 🙂
That was my experience putting this together! It ended up reminding me why I do this in the first place lol.
You had me at Travel Quotes!
I thought I’d heard them all but you have a lot in here that are new to me. You also have my favorite travel quote: #152.
Oh that’s a good one! I hadn’t heard it but then I saw it on a sign in Slovenia, not I see it a lot!
Someone better keep number 209 from the poppy fields in California. Hahahha
Hahahah! Might not serve us too well in the age of sustainable travel. =)