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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We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

— Gustave Flaubert

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…

— Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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.

— Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

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

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

— Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China

There ain’t no journey that don’t change you some.

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.

— Erol Ozan

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

— James A. Michener
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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.