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1. 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.
2. To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. – Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Travel: The best way to be lost and found at the same time. – Brenna Smith
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
Susan Sontag5. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart
6. With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. – Sandra Lake
7. Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Mary Ritter Beard
8. I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations. – Nyssa P. Chopra
9. Sometimes the best journeys are those that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect, and are taking us places we do not know. – Aisha Mirza
If we were meant to stay in one place we would have roots instead of feet.
Rachel Wolchin11. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
12. Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind and fills your life with stories to tell. – Paula Bendfeldt
13. I think you travel to search, and you come back home to find yourself there. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
14. The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. – Agnes Repplier
15. To shut your eyes is to travel. – Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous traveling quotes of all time
16. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai
You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.
Kirsten Hubbard18. To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy. – Raquel Cepeda
19. Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. – Gayle Foreman
20. 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. – Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
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 Thurman22. There is a kind of magic-ness about going far away, and then coming back all changed. – Kate Douglas Wiggin
23. Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed. – Jodi Picoult
24. 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
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25. Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure. – Maya Angelou
26. If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them — that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature. – Freya Stark
The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine28. 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
29. As a woman I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. – Virginia Woolf
30. The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned. – Jane Wilson-Howarth
31. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anaïs Nin
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
Storm Jameson33. Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. – Eudora Welty
34. 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
35. One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. – Edith Wharton
36. I was never a big fan of people who don’t leave home. It just seems part of your duty in life. – Joan Didion
You have to taste a culture to understand it.
Deborah Cater38. As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. – Margaret Mead
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39. Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little. – Jane Wilson-Howarth
40. Do not fear failure, but please, be terrified of regret. – Deshauna Barber
41. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anaïs Nin
It’s ok to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.
Mandy Hale43. 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. – Eleanor Roosevelt
44. 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
45. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller
46. Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. – Caroline Myss
47. The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure. – Debasish Mridha
Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
Margaret Shepard49. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done, does away with fear. – Rosa Parks
50. What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have. – Elizabeth Benedict
51. I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Mary Louise Alcott
52. 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
52. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me? – Ayn Rand
53. If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. – Gloria Steinem
55. You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference. – Anita Septimus
Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.
Anaïs Nin56. 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
57. 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
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59. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. – Brene Brown
60. What good are wings without the courage to fly? – Harper Lee, one of the best quotes about traveling and adventure
61. Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing. – Holly Morris
Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.
Jaime Lyn Beatty63. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
64. You must go on adventures to find out where you belong. – Sue Fitzmaurice
65. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller, one of the most inspiring quotes about traveling alone
66. If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. – Jane Austen
67. Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient. – Grace Lichtenstein
68. 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 competence. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.
Sue Fitzmaurice70. Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress: Adventure. – J.K. Rowling
71. Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman
72. 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
73. The journey is my home. – Muriel Rukeyser
74. 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
75. Live your life by a compass, not a clock. – Erica Jong
76. Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. – Martha Barron Barrett
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver78. You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents. – Gayle Forman
79. I didn’t know where I was going, until I got there. – Cheryl Strayed
80. You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. – Diane Von Furstenberg
81. Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip. – Babs Hoffman, one of the best quotes for traveling without fear
82. Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ― serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up. – Nikki Rowe
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 Angelou84. When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement… 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
85. It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin
86. When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. – Susan Heller
87. One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone. – Sarah Glidden
88. The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have. – Anna Quindlen
89. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith
I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost; I have never been lost ― I just wasn’t ready to be found.
Nikki Rowe91. You can’t out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings. – Elizabeth McCracken
92. 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
93. A person needs at intervals to separate themselves from family and companions and go to new places. You must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. – Katharine Butler Hathaway
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94. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it. – Freya Stark
95. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. – Mae West
There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.
Mandy Hale97. I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. – Daphne Du Maurier
98. 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
99. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. – Barbara De Angelis
100. Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations. – Suzy Strutner
101. If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of the private pain… For I am as strong as I am weak. If you want me to come home to you, be the safe harbor in which I can seek refuge. – Jaeda DeWalt
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 Boone103. 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
104. You can go everywhere, but in the end you run back into yourself. – Constance A. Dunn
105. When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. – Diane Von Furstenberg
106. The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself. – Angela Vallely
107. The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape. – Gina Greenlee
108. A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time. – Chelsea Handler, one of the best funny quotes about traveling🤪
Solo travel: It forces you to trust yourself, question yourself, and in turn, trust yourself even more.
Brooke Saward110. All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. – Charlotte Eriksson
111. Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join. – Francis Shenstone, one of the best traveling alone quotes
Final Thoughts: Best Quotes About Traveling Alone
A Note from the Editor about Solo Traveling Quotes
Since ALL the quotes about traveling alone articles I came across had quotes said mostly by men 🤷♀️, I decided to be part of the solution and compiled this list of the most impactful and famous quotes about travel to help guide fellow female travelers to a life-changing solo travel journey.
I hope these solo traveler quotes inspire you to explore traveling alone as a woman, and take your first solo trip.
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Best Resources for Solo Travelers
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination. – Roman Payne
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 (RIP)