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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See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

The journey itself is my home.

— Matsuo Basho

We travel initially to lose ourselves;
and we travel next to find ourselves.

— Pico Iyer

Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.

— Tennesse Williams, Camino Real

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

— Pat Conroy

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.

— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire.

— Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

— Paul Theroux

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, The Art of Travel
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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.