80 Short Travel Quotes for Instagram
There’s nothing quite like the thrill of exploring new places and experiencing different cultures.
To inspire your wanderlust, we’ve compiled a collection of the best travel quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for short and sweet travel sayings, we’ve got you covered too.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Our Favorite Travel Quotes
“Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.” — Dhani Jones
“The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.” — Geoff Dyer
“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” — Joe Abercrombie
“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.” — Vera Nazarian
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” — Herman Melville
“Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world.”
“All you need to know is that it’s possible.” — Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Oh the places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton
“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
“Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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 Teran
“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
“You lose sight of things and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel
“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” — Anne Sophie Swetchine
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” — Erol Ozan
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” — Rumi
“One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.” — Albert Camus
“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
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
“Travelling expands the mind rarely.” — Hans Christian Andersen
“Traveling it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you or unmaking you.” — Nicolas Bouvier
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” — Lawrence Durrell
“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” — Penelope Riley
“Experience, travel these are as education in themselves.” — Euripides
“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” — Frank Borman
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” — Seneca
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
“Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.” — Anais Nin
“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
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide
“Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” — Samuel Johnson
“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” — Freya Stark
“Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each other’s journey, but knowing that the journey we make will be our own.” — Gloria Steinem
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” — Danny Kaye
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” — Walter Mitty
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
“The grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.” — Paul Theroux
“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” — Thomas Jefferson
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” — George A. Moore
“Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.” — Milton Glaser
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” — Francis Bacon
“A life of travel is one you’ll never want to escape from.” — Bertahan Luxing
“The best way to truly learn what the world has to offer is to travel.” — Bertahan Luxing
“There’s nothing stopping you from living a never-ending adventure.” — Bertahan Luxing
“Working for the weekend is no way to live. Everyday is a weekend for the traveler.” — Bertahan Luxing
“Travel will teach you things no school ever could.” — Bertahan Luxing
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.” — John Burroughs
“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
“The journey changes you…It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body.” — Anthony Bourdain
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” — Rachel Carson
“We like to think of travel as going to far-off places, escaping our home to experience the new and exotic. But travel can be the act of simply going somewhere new.” — Sarah Samuel
“When we choose to travel to, in exploration of the surprising and new in the world, we have the potential to become more aware of the surprising and new within our being. As we hold a mindful approach – of openness, curiosity and compassion – we initiate an unfolding within.” — Sarah Samuel
Short Travel Quotes for Instagram
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin
“He who must travel happily must travel light.” — Antoine de St Exupery
“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing.” — Gayle Foreman
“Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” — Leigh Hunt
“If I’d learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them.” — Alex Garland
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck
“One of the biggest challenges about going on vacation is planning the trip.” — Paul Brodie
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama
“If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” — Paulo Coelho
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc
“There’s a whole world at your feet.” — Mary Poppins
