Are you contemplating a solo trip? If so, you’re not alone. Around the world, people are packing their bags and hitting the open road without anyone else but themselves. And for good reason: Solo travel is an incredible way to learn about yourself, see the world in a new light, and make lasting memories. These 59 quotes will inspire you to explore the world alone and discover all that it has to offer.
Solo Travel Quotes
- “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
- “The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.” — Nikola Tesla
- “The best thinking has been done in solitude.” — Thomas A. Edison
- “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. 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
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
- “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” — Daphne du Maurier
- “Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” — Steven Aitchison
- “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.” — Albert Einstein
- “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” — David McCullough Jr.
- “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer
- “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” — Brenna Smith
- “There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It’s a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.” — Kunal Khemu
- “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” — Seneca
- “I’ve often been with someone and wished I was alone. I’ve never been alone and wished I was not.” — Derek Sivers
- “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” — Lewis Carroll
- “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” — Suzy Strutner
- “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell
- “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Not being comfortable alone means you must spend more time alone.” — Maxime Lagacé
- “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” — Pablo Picasso
- “I myself am best when least in company.” — William Shakespeare
- “Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.” — Paulo Coelho
- “In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.” — Ayn Rand
- “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” — Carew Papritz
- “To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself.” — Dag Hammarskjold
- “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 Boone
- “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.” — Voltaire
- “Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.” —William James
- “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” — Isabelle Eberhardt
- “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” — Henry Rollins
- “When you’re travelling with someone, 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
- “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” — Albert Einstein
- “We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.” — Rolf Potts
- “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” — Confucius
- “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” — Ellen Burstyn
- “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” — George Washington
- “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” — Aldous Huxley
- “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. 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
- “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” — Ray Bradbury
- “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
- “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer
- “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin
- “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
- “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” — Ernest Hemingway
- “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” — Rumi
- “The journey not the arrival matters.” — T.S. Eliot
- “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin
- “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” — Carl Sagan
- “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurize
- “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown. You travel for the unknown, the reveals you within yourself.” — Ella Maillart
- “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
A Final Word
So what are you waiting for? Get inspired by these quotes, plan your dream trip and go explore the world solo. Have we convinced you yet that there’s nothing quite like traveling on your own terms?
Have any other solo travel quotes you’d add to the collection? Which is your favorite? Let us know in the comments – we’d love to hear it!
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