50+ Amazing Solo Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You

We look to solo travel as a way to push our boundaries, transform ourselves, and discover a new place, feeling, or identity. Travelling alone is simultaneously exhilarating and nerve-wracking, and venturing out without the companionship of friends or family can feel intimidating. It is within these solo journeys that we often find our truest selves. So, whether you are thinking about going solo for the first time, about to start your solo travel journey, or are in the middle of it, here is a curated list of 100 solo travel quotes that will hopefully inspire or resonate with you.

Quotes have the power to capture the essence of our experiences and feelings, providing comfort, encouragement, and a sense of connection, even when we are miles away from home. Especially when we are feeling lost or unsure of our solo trip, looking at quotes is a great reminder of why we took on this challenge in the first place.

It’s helped me remember why I love solo traveling so much and put my feelings into digestible words. With that being said, let’s get inspired to solo travel!

Motivational Solo Travel Quotes

In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

Abraham Maslow

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do. Do it now!

Unknown

A ship in a harbour is safe but that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

Tony Robbins

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

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

You will never look back on your life and say I traveled too much.

Unknown

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma

• If not now, then when?
  • Hillel the Elder (Primo Levi)
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
  • Martin Buber
• Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.
  • Oscar Wilde
• Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experiences.
  • Paulo Coelho
• If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.
  • Unknown

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

• Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.
  • Francis Shenstone
• In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. 
  • Lewis Carroll

Quotes for Travelling Alone

The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

Traveling alone doesn’t mean you’re lonely; it means you’re brave enough to embrace the unknown on your own terms.

Unknown

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you’re trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it’s like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Simon Van Booy

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

Suzy Strutner

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

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J.R.R. Tolkien

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.

Amy Dodson

The joy of being alone can be as exhilarating as the joy of being with someone else. It’s a new freedom.

J.J. Heller

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

• 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
• I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I have never been.
  • Unknown
• Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
  • Henry Rollins

Travel Quotes about Growth

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

Travel is fatal to prejuidce, 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.

Mark Twain

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Cesare Pavese

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

Jonah Lehrer

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Neale Donald Walsch

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

Pico Iyer

Certainly, 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

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

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Holmes Jr.

Quotes About The Journey

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Louis L’Amour

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ernest Hemingway

• The journey, not the arrival, matters.
  • T.S. Eliot
• The journey is the reward.
  • Ancient Chinese Proverb
• The journey itself is my home.
  • Matsuo Basho

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Alain de Botton

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

Unknown

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

Hunter S. Thompson

Funny Solo Travel Quotes

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Mark Twain

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

Harun Yahya

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Emile Zola

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

Maya Angelou

My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents happening in places I’m about to visit.

Unknown

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

Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.

Mae West

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.

Babs Hoffman

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.

Thomas Jefferson

Table for one, food for two, please.

Unknown

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag

How to Embrace Solo Travel Quotes on Your Journey

Here are a few ways to utilize these solo travel quotes before or during your solo journey:

• Journal:
  1. Choose quotes that resonate with your personal journey and feelings at different stages of your trip.
  2. Write down the quotes in your journal and reflect on how they relate to your experiences, emotions, and thoughts.
  3. Use the quotes as prompts for journaling about memorable moments, challenges overcome, and insights gained during your solo travels.
• Social Media:
  • Everyone loves a good Instagram caption, so use any of these as inspiration for your next Instagram post!
• Scrapbook:
  • Use a quote or two as the center of your scrapbooking page and build your collage around it.
• Daily Affirmation
  • Write or print a couple of quotes you resonate with and keep them with you on your travels. It can be as simple as a written quote on a sticky note or a poster you find online or in person.

The Magic of Solo Travel

Like so many of the quotes implied, solo travel is the best way to understand yourself and the world around you. It’s how you expand your world perception, your purpose, and understand different ways of life. It’s a risk that is scary, but there is no reward without risk!

Solo travel forces you to be comfortable with the unknown, find solitude, be independent, enjoy the journey, and so much more. You’ll find comfort in eating alone, getting lost, and get great at adapting to changing plans.

It’s never too late to start traveling solo, and you can start in your own town or city. Here are the 20 best places to travel solo female, as well (all places that I have been myself). You’ll also meet so many amazing people that you wouldn’t meet otherwise on your trip!

Go Solo!

Many people claim solo travel as an enriching and life-changing experience, and hopefully, these solo travel quotes capture the beauty of that experience. Solo travel isn’t about looking for an escape or leaving your problems behind. Rather, it’s about the journey you go on with yourself while you explore this big, wide world and give yourself the opportunity to change and grow. So, pick your favorite quote and let it motivate you to start your own solo travel journey! Happy travels!