Who doesn’t like a good travel quote now and then? Well, I do, and here are some of my favorites, in no particular order. Of course, some are not strictly only about travel, but can also be applied to the more general ‘life journey’, or the other way around.

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I travel not to go anywhere but to go.
I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to move.

— Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

— Danny Kaye

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Like every great traveler,
I have seen more than I remember,
and remember more than I have seen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.

— Jawaharial Nehru

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

— Anita Desai

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

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 EberhardtI, The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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 Thurman
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Any great quotes missing? Please share you favorite ones in the comment section below and I’ll add the best ones to this post.