Before I took my first trip alone I didn’t really think about traveling by myself. I thought I needed to travel with other people. But after my solo backpacking trip to Southeast Asia my world opened up to the rich experiences of traveling solo.
Solo travel is rewarding. We experience personal growth from trying new things and getting away from our usual habits. And there’s no better way to step outside of your comfort zone than a solo trip to someplace new.
In this post I’m sharing 52 of the best solo travel quotes to invigorate your wanderlust.
52 Solo Travel Quotes
In the following solo travel quotes I hope you find inspiration – and may you enjoy many adventures while traveling alone.
“You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” — Natalie Goldberg
“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
“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin
Solo travel adventure quote
“Solo travel builds confidence.”
“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
“Go where you feel most alive.”
“I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock” – Erica Jong
“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
Inspiring solo travel quote
“Don’t keep waiting for someone to travel with you because you may never travel anywhere!”
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg
Solo travel quote – stop waiting for others to travel with you!
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
“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
“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor
“I discovered that I prefer to collect experiences rather than things.” – Susan Moore
“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
Travel quote inspiring you try solo traveling
“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
“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
“Only one who wanders finds new paths.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” – Rumi
Quote about traveling solo and getting to know yourself
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“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 wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly” – Colin Wright
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
Traveling alone is about personal growth
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.” – Diana Nyad
“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
”A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal
“The past is in your head. The future is in your hands.”
“Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone
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Solo travel pushes you out of your comfort zone AND others’ expectations
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”
“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
“A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner
“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Francis Burton
“You are never too old to start traveling solo.” – Susan Moore
“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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