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52 Solo Travel Quotes to Inspire Traveling Alone

By: Author Susan Moore

Posted on Last updated: September 2, 2022

Before I took my first trip alone I didn’t really think about traveling by myself. I thought I needed to travel with other people. But after my solo backpacking trip to Southeast Asia my world opened up to the rich experiences of traveling solo.

Solo travel is rewarding. We experience personal growth from trying new things and getting away from our usual habits. And there’s no better way to step outside of your comfort zone than a solo trip to someplace new.

In this post I’m sharing 52 of the best solo travel quotes to invigorate your wanderlust.

52 Solo Travel Quotes

In the following solo travel quotes I hope you find inspiration – and may you enjoy many adventures while traveling alone.

“You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” — Natalie Goldberg

“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

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“Solo travel builds confidence.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Go where you feel most alive.”

“I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock” – Erica Jong

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

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“Don’t keep waiting for someone to travel with you because you may never travel anywhere!”

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” –  Helen Keller

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

Solo travel quote – stop waiting for others to travel with you!

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius

“How will you know, if you never go and explore?”

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor

“I discovered that I prefer to collect experiences rather than things.” – Susan Moore

“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

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“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

“Only one who wanders finds new paths.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” – Rumi

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“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly” – Colin Wright

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.” – Diana Nyad

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” – Becca Lee

”A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

“The past is in your head. The future is in your hands.”

“Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

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“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

“There’s no right way or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should give solo travel a try at least once in their life.” – Susan Moore

“A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Francis Burton

“You are never too old to start traveling solo.” – Susan Moore

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. 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

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75 Best Solo Travel Quotes (+ Others)

• by Jonny Duncan
• July 4, 2023 July 4, 2023

Travelling alone can be a life-changing experience and one of the best things you do. These solo travel quotes for travelling alone from famed explorers/writers/ and more will inspire you to get out and go travelling alone.

They are also very useful if you want some great solo travel quotes for Instagram or other social media channels, etc.

There are 25 specific “solo travel quotes”, some of which are very famous travel quotes and the other 50 are general travel quotes but they can be used as solo travel quotes as well.

Just a quick note before we start. I had travelled alone for 20 or so years from 1997 onwards, but I have now been with my partner and wife for 5 years and love travelling together as a couple.

Still, some solo travel quotes are good to know!

Enjoy these inspiring solo travelling quotes and other travel quotes.

25 Best Solo Travel Quotes

I’ll start with one of my favourite travel writers with one of his solo travel quotes.

• “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

2. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale

3. “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski

4. “The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.”- Alan Ashley-Pitt

5. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

6. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne Du Maurier

The next one is a very true one out of all these solo travel quotes:

7. “Some journeys in life can only be travelled alone.” – Ken Poirot

8. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

9. “When the traveller goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

10. “Solo travel is an opportunity to discover parts of yourself that you never knew existed.” – Stephanie Lee

11. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

12. “The solo traveller is not looking for an escape from life, but rather a way to experience it more fully.” -Shane Dallas

13. “There’s no right or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should try it at least once in their life.” — Susan Moore

14. “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” — Gina Greenlee

15. “When the traveller goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

16. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — Albert Einstein  

17. “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” — Gina Greenlee

18. “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

Another one of the best solo travel quotes:

19. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

20. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone

21. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.” — Unknown

22. “In solo travel, you are forced to face your fears, discover your strengths, and learn to trust yourself.” – Unknown

23. “Travelling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown

24. “Solo travel will push you out of your comfort zone and give you a confidence boost like nothing else can.” – Unknown

25. “Traveling alone is an opportunity to discover yourself and find your own way.” – Unknown

30 Famous Travel Quotes

Many of these can also apply to solo travel quotes.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu

2. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

3. “A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

4. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gorde

5. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis

6. One of the most famous travel quotes out there:

“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien

7. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

8. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

9. “A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

10. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

11. “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

12. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

13. “One thing that I love about travelling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.” — Sarah Glidden

14. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman

15. “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

16. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

17. “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” — Paulo Coelho

That applies to solo travel quotes as well.

BTW If you haven’t read Paulo Coelho’s book The Alchemist I highly recommend you do:

18. Another of my favourite travel writers is Bill Bryson and this is one the best Bill Bryson travel quotes:

“There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.” Bill Bryson

19. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

20. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

21. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” — Wendell Berry

22. “Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

23. “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

24. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

25. “Take the risk, or lose the chance” – Unknown 

26. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

27. Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. – Hannah Arendt

28. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

29. “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” — Micheline Jean Louis

30. “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” — Paulo Coelho

31. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway

32. “Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.” – Robert Thier

33. “So I find words I never thought to speak. In streets, I never thought I should revisit. When I left my body on a distant shore.” – T.S. Eliot

34. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin

35. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

36. “No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

37. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

38. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

39. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

40. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

41. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

42. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

43. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

44. “We live in a wonderful 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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

45. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

46. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

47. “Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – Seneca

48. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Basho

49. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

50. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

I’ll add one of my own quotes here at the end. It’s not just about travel, but life in general.

“The less you have, the less you have to worry about.” Jonny Duncan (me!)

That is to say, travel light and live free. Travel with as little things as possible and you will feel a freedom so strong. I normally travelled in the past with just a 30 litres carry-on backpack and lived a minimal life.

These days I do have a bigger bag but that’s because I’m married and help carry some of my wife’s things.

Solo Travelling Advice

Solo travelling is one of the most rewarding life experiences for you to have. I travelled alone (that is to say left home alone) for 20 or so years.

But you’re never really alone. You will always meet new people, whether they are fellow travellers or locals you meet, and have new experiences in new places together, with lots of memories.

The biggest advice for solo travelling, and what some of these solo travel quotes have said, is simply:

“Don’t be afraid, step out your door, and just go!” Me!

I love solo travel quotes, they just give inspiration for those planning to travel solo and see the world.

Enjoy your solo travelling adventure±

Solo Traveller Quotes

Those are the best solo travel quotes and travel quotes overall. I have used many of these over the past 25 years of travelling, and love them all.

For travel guides and advice for helping you out with your journey take a look at my destinations page.

As I mentioned in the beginning Paul Theroux and Bill Bryson are two of my favourite travel writers, with great solo travel quotes, and have books spanning all over the world, so if you want some great travel reading take a look at some of their books.

The Great Railway Bazaar is old now but a brilliant read and In a Sunburned Country is hilarious. I recommend Bookshop.org as they help support local bookstores.

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Powerful Quotes for Travelling Alone

March 21, 2021

Solo travel can be exhilarating, exhausting and emotional. But I’ve always found it worth it. Sometimes, though, you can use a helping hand. So I’ve gathered together some of my favourite quotes for travelling alone, as well as some more practical info to help you on your next solo trip.

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The Best Quotes for Travelling Alone

Through work and a passion for exploration, I’ve travelled alone through the desert sands of the Sahara, the ice of the Arctic Circle and the sweaty tropics of southern India. Some things have made life much easier, like having the right kit. So before you travel anywhere, check out the international travel checklist and ultimate travel packing list here.

Also, while many of these solo travel quotes wax lyrical about self-sufficiency, remember there’s nothing wrong with booking onto a tour or a cruise if that’s what you’d prefer. Suffering doesn’t make something more meaningful. 

There’s a whole world of travel experiences that cater for solo travellers these days, from luxury cruises in the Amazon rainforest like this to the ultimate in rest and relaxation in a Greek villa,  like this .

Right, that said, let’s get on to the inspirational stuff. Whether it’s your first trip or your forty-first, here are some of the best quotes for travelling alone.

Self Sufficiency Quotes

“I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.” –  Cheryl Strayed

“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” Unknown.

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.” –   Suzy Strutner

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” – Henry Ford

Meaning of Life Solo Travel Quotes

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“When you’re traveling with someone else, 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 have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” –  Pablo Holmberg

“You have to get lost before you can be found” –  Jeff Rasley

“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

“You will never be alone if you like the person you are with!” Unknown.

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” –  Grace Lichtenstein

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”  – Unknown

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” –  Angela Vallely

More Quotes About Travelling Alone

When it comes to finding quotes about travelling alone, you’ll notice they’re not all solo female travel quotes. As a woman, I think it’s great to see the explosion in articles and confidence encouraging women to hit the road. And while men and women face different challenges when it comes to their first time or forty-first trip, some things remain the same: buy travel insurance , take a deep breath and enjoy your trip!

Making Friends While Travelling Alone

 “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” –  Jacqueline Boone

“You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!” Unknown.

More Solo Traveller Quotes

Having Fun & Falling in Love

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” Freya Stark.

More Travel Solo Quotes

Not letting life pass you by.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

“So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –  Mark Twain

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”  – Unknown

“Go solo, go far.”  – Unknown

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” —  John Mayer

“Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”  – Kein Poirot

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” —  Buddha

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” –  Ayn Rand

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

More Travel Alone Quotes

Quotes about travelling alone that reveal the truth.

One day, you will look back and learn about all these adventures and new experiences through the fading grandeur of your own memories. And that’s the best way to look at things!

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

In other words, when you travel alone, you get to do what you want!

Quotes That Need Some Caveats (!)

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” –  Caroline Myss

I mean. I kinda see what she’s getting at here but also… When you’re travelling alone, sometimes the best thing you can do is listen to that fear and get yourself out of a dangerous situation. So, go with the poetry but don’t forget the practical.

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

I think for this to make sense, you have to have a pretty big idea about yourself before you start ;-) 

“If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

And perhaps my all time favourite…

 “If you never go, you’ll never know.” –  Unknown

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74 Inspiring Solo Travel Quotes 2024

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A quick search of the internet and you’ll find thousands of travel quotes. They exist to inspire you to delve into the unknown and learn about the world .

However, solo travel quotes have an extra special ingredient – not only do they ignite wanderlust and passion for the great unknown , but they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to solo travellers who are facing the world alone.

Why Travel Solo?

In recent years, solo travel has been on the rise, and more and more people are discovering just how empowering and exciting it can be to venture into the unknown alone.

It is one of the most life changing experiences you can undertake, and will ultimately mould you into a stronger, more capable individual.

There are plenty of challenges when travelling alone, but solo travel is the ultimate chance for you to learn about yourself and see the world from a whole new perspective.

You’ll grow as a person exponentially, and be better equipped to deal with what life throws at you.

Since 2012, I have travelled alone through Europe , Asia , Central and South America , and the freedom it brings is incomparable to traveling with others.

My solo trips have been filled with highs and lows, but they are the kinds of experiences I wouldn’t change for the world, as they have made me who I am today.

Whether in a foreign city or strange town, a solo journey is your very own adventure.

So whether you’re single, in a relationship, introverted or extroverted, try travelling alone at least once in your life.

74 of the Best Travel Solo Quotes

Whether you’re currently on the road solo or at home planning to travel alone for the first time, you’ll find that quotes about traveling alone will help to inspire you and push you ahead.

So I’ve curated and categorised the best solo travel quotes (that also make the perfect travel captions for Instagram), in the hopes that they will motivate and nudge you into booking a solo trip abroad.

These quotes for solo travel have been hand picked from authors, poets, historians, actresses, scientists and even Buddha!

Best Solo Trip Quotes

1. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”  – Unknown

2. “Go solo, go far.”  – Unknown

3. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” —  John Mayer

4. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”  – Kein Poirot

5. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” —  Buddha

6. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” –  Maxwell Maltz

7. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

8. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” –  Mandy Hale

Self Discovery Quotes About Travelling Alone

Solo travel is all about relying on yourself and trusting your instincts.

You’ll learn more about yourself and find out just how capable you are.

The following quotes about traveling alone, are all about self discovery:

9. “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

10. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

Solo Ride Quotes

11. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” –  Grace Lichtenstein

12. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”  – Unknown

13. “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” –  Angela Vallely

14. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” –  Pablo Holmberg

15. “You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley

Riding Solo Quotes About How Much Travel Can Change You

We all know travel changes you, but travelling alone is even more transformative, and will shape you in ways you could never have imagined.

This is because solo travel is designed to push you out of your comfort zone, and make you realise the only limits you have are the ones you set yourself.

The below travel alone quotes are all about how solo travel can change you and test your boundaries:

16. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” – Caroline Myss

17. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

18. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” – Henry Ford

Quotes on Travelling Alone

19. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

20. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.”  – Suzy Strutner

21. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –  Gustav Flaubert

22. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” –  Isabelle Eberhardt

Quotes About Traveling Alone That Will Make You Embrace It

When you’re planning to visit a foreign country by yourself for the first time, it can be hard to find the inner courage to make your solo travel dreams a reality.

The following solo travelling quotes are designed to take away your fears and get you packing your backpack:

23. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” –  Diane Von Furstenberg

24. “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

Travelling Alone Quotes

25. “When you’re traveling with someone else, 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

26. “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

27. “You will never be alone if you like the person you are with!”

28. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

29. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”

FOMO Solo Travel Quotes for Instagram

There are plenty of quotes about solo travel that are all about making sure you don’t miss out on travelling alone and the unique experiences it offers.

Read this collection of inspiring traveling solo quotes for the journeys you need to do alone NOW before it’s too late.

30. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –  Mark Twain

31. “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.”  – Unknown

Alone Travel Quotes

32. “If you never go, you’ll never know.”  – Unknown

33. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

34. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” –  Henry David Thoreau

35. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

Solo Female Travel Quotes

If the fear of the unknown has caused you to procrastinate or postpone your solo female adventure then I hope these inspirational quotes about traveling alone as a woman will give you a push in the right direction.

36. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

37. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

Solo Travel Instagram Captions

38. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” –  Diane Von Furstenberg

39. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” –  Mae West

40. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”  – Cheryl Strayed

41. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. 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.” –  Freya Stark

42. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

Quotes for Travelling Alone

43. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” –  Anthony Bourdain

44. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” –  Storm Jameson

45. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

46. “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” –  Pico Iyer

47. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

Quotes on Solo Travel

48. “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

49. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

50. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” – Margaret Shepard

51. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

52. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” –  Holly Morris

Solo Travelling Quotes

53. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

54. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” –  Henry Rollins

55. “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” –  Debasish Mridha

56. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” –  Helen Keller

57. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

58. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

59. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” –  Elizabeth Gilbert

60. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” –  Paul Theroux

Solo Trip Captions for Instagram

61. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

62. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

63. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

64. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

65. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”

66. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” – Alain de Botton

Solo Journey Quotes

• “The impulse of travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier
• “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten
• “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan
• “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

Solo Traveling Quotes

• “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
• “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
• “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” — Wendell Berry

The Best Travel Alone Quotes

That’s a wrap!

I hope these quotes on travelling alone have made you see solo travel in a new way, and perhaps motivated you to get past the hardest part, taking the leap!

Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip.

However you choose to use these solo ride quotes, I hope they inspire you to take on your next solo adventure trip.

Did I miss any good quotes for solo travelers?

If so, let me know in the comments below, and if you are looking for even more travel inspiration check out some of the other travel quotes I’ve collated.

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55+ Astounding Solo Travel Quotes to Make You Want to Travel Alone

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Setting out on a solo trip can change your perspective on life. Traveling on your own, no new experience is out of the question, and you’re free to change plans anytime you need them to. And while we can hardly think of anything better, traveling alone is something that many dream about or are too scared to undertake.

Perhaps you’re looking to start your own solo journey, need the motivation to keep going, or are just curious about the possibilities solo travel brings. In any case, I have compiled together a list of the best quotes about solo travel to fit any aspect.

Enjoy! And, if you like any of the images below, feel free to Pin them on Pinterest!

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Motivational & Inspirational Solo Travel Quotes

Being alone in a strange new city is not only exhilarating, but it can also be nerve-wracking at the same time. But, solo travel has the power to transform your self-confidence and alter the course of your life. In fact, you might find yourself doing things you might have never thought were possible. You just have to find the motivation to take that first step.

So, here are a few of my favorite quotes to motivate and inspire you to travel solo, at least once in your life.

1. “Life is too short and the world is too wide. The sooner you start exploring it, the better.” — Simon Raven

2. “Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” — Steven Aitchison

3. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” — Unknown

4. “There’s no right or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should try it at least once in their life.” — Susan Moore

5. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” —

6. “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” — Pico Iyer

7. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” — Storm Jameson

8. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Anne Radmacher

Quotes on Finding Strength Through Solo Travel

If you talk to just about any solo traveler, you’ll hear that traveling alone is an ideal time to heal from past traumas and reflect on the future. Best of all, you’re not on the world’s timeline. Traveling by yourself gives you all the time you need to think. You’ll likely find a strength in yourself you didn’t know was there, too!

If you are ever feeling uncertain about your decision to travel alone, take a look back at quotes about finding strength via solo travel.

9. “Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before that know they can do it.” — Amy Dochler

10. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” — Margret Shepard

11. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But, always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” — Pablo Holmberg 

12. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman

13. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diane von Furstenburg 

14. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.” — Unknown 

15. “When you’re traveling with someone else, 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 in your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.” — Shauna Niequist

16. “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.” — Jodi Hills 

Short Solo Travel Quotes

A few simple words can make a big difference. Really, one small sentence can change everything! Best of all, words can be inspiring. And sometimes, all a person needs to follow their dreams is a little inspiration.

This section is all about solo travel quotes that are short and sweet to the point. Get inspired!

17. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

18. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” — Paul Theroux 

19. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

20. “I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” — Elizabeth Lim 

21. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

22. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

23. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.” — Unknown

24. “You are never too old to start traveling solo.” — Susan Moore 

25. “ Go Solo. Go far .”  — Susan Moore

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Solo Female Travel Quotes

It takes a lot of courage to venture out into the world alone, let alone as a woman. While it can be daunting if you haven’t done it before, traveling solo as a female is one of the most freeing experiences ever! Doing what you set out to do will raise your self-esteem. Plus, you’ll realize you can do anything you set your mind to, regardless of what the rest of the world thinks. 

Let’s review some of our favorite quotes on the solo female traveler.

26. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” — Roman Payne

27. “They say that travel broadens the mind and opens a person up to different cultures and new experiences. This is certainly true, and if you’re a woman traveling alone, even more so. It takes inner strength coupled with a sense of adventure to travel solo, yet it can be one of life’s most rewarding experiences.” — Unknown

28. “ Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.” — Nico J. Genes 

29. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — Albert Einstein  

30. “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.” — Virginia Woolf

31. “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” — Norma Shearer 

32. “It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirts that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.” — Oprah Winfrey  

Quotes about the Solo Travel Journey & Experience

It goes without saying that traveling by yourself is different from taking a trip with others. For instance, you travel at your own pace, set your daily schedule, choose your activities, and are wholly responsible for yourself. You are also able to interact with locals and other travelers, rather than keep to your friends or family.

Read on for the best solo journey quotes. You’ll quickly learn how traveling solo shows you a lot about yourself, what you’re capable of, and changes your perspective on the world — and the people in it.

33. “Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta

34. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale

35. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson 

36. “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

37. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” — Suzy Strutner 

38. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau 

39. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” — Grace Lichtenstein

Funny Quotes About Traveling Alone

Traveling solo isn’t always easy, so we advise you to keep an open mind and expect the unexpected! Keep in mind, some of the best stories come from accidents. Without a doubt, there are bound to be one or two experiences that you’ll laugh at for years to come.

Keep scrolling to read some of the funniest quotes on solo travel.

40. “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” — Ray Bradbury

41. “The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said “Why it is life.” — Emily Hahn

42. “The impulse to travel alone is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” — Agnes Repplier

43. “It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” — David Hewson 

44. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” — Brenna Smith 

45. “ When you’re trying to save money for a house, but end up with a one-way ticket to some tropical island…” — Unknown 

Best Quotes & Captions on Traveling Alone for Instagram

Of course, you’re likely going to document your solo adventure on social media — or maybe in a journal just for you! Nonetheless, our friends, family, and sometimes followers we don’t even know, want to know what we’re up to and how they can also travel by themselves.

 Scroll down for some witty solo travel captions for Instagram.

46. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” — Unknown

47. “Travel far enough to meet yourself.” — Unknown

48. “The question isn’t who is going to let me it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand 

49. “To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself.” — Yes- Dag Hammarskjold

50. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.” — Unknown

51. “Travel makes one modest. YOu see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert

52. “Just go.” — Unknown 

53. “If you are waiting for someone to go with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” — Unknown 

54. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Erica Jon

There you have it — our favorite quotes about traveling alone. Although solo travel can be daunting, it’s so worth it!

We truly hope these quotes — and this blog, for that matter — have inspired you to book a ticket for solo travel. It’s time to see what you can really accomplish out there in the world. I promise it’s more than you think.

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31 Solo Travel Quotes (to push your confidence taking a journey on your own)

The hardest part about solo travel is the beginning. It’s getting used to it. We collected a bunch of awesome solo travel quotes – for male and female travel.

This list of journey along quotes is hopefully a big push for you in the right direction.

There is no need to be afraid, again the hardest part is the beginning of solo travel. In case you need a bit of motivation, a push, a boost, this is for you.

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Why travel Solo?

The question should really be, why wouldn’t you travel solo?! The only answer to that is that you should.

Ok let’s get serious here… why solo travel?

For one thing, solo travel allows you to do what you want, when you want – there’s no need to double check with a friend, or argue over where to go next. Your itinerary is completely your own! There is ultimate freedom in moving at your own pace. Not to mention the amount of people you’re bound to meet along the way, including many other solo travellers of all ages, genders and backgrounds.

Learn about yourself, overcome challenges, grow as a person, set your own budget, learn to listen to your gut.. and on an on it goes.

Travelling solo is a wonderful way to move toward self-responsbility, using wordly experiences to redefine the way you live life. Seriously, do not let anyone tell you that it’s weird to travel alone!

Besides, solo travel has become so much easier these days thanks to awesome hostels around the world. The 5 star hostels certainly know how to accommodate solo adventurers.

Skip to our Hostels for Solo-Traveler section to find out why you should consider staying in hostels on your solo travels.

Hostelgeeks team = Solo Travellers

Psst! Many of the Hostelgeeks team members are avid (addicted?) solo travellers. True story! Between us, we’ve solo-travelled every corner of the globe over many consecutive years.

Along the way, we’ve put together in-depth guides to the “ Best Hostels in… “, explored until our feet almost dropped off to create awesome city guides and collected all of the essential travel resources you’re going to need to explore the world.

Trust us when we say: SOLO TRAVELLING IS LIFE CHANGING!

More Quotes we share

We collected even more for you. Just click on the photo to get all the quotes:

List of great Solo Trip Quotes

If you are looking for a solo travel Instagram captions, you are in the right place. Let us get started and dive right into the world of traveling alone and embrace new experiences:

1. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”

2. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

3. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!”

4. “A traveler should be happy, not perfect!”

5. “Sail away from the safe harbor.”

6. “Being a solo traveler made me an adult!”

7. “Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost!”

8. “Traveling solo made me a stronger person!”

9. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”

10. “Traveling the world on my own made me more confident. I am me now!”

11. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

12. “If you never go, you will never know!”

13. “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a life time!”

Getting to know you Quotes about Traveling Alone

14. “Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!”

15. “Smile for life, not only for the photo!”

16. “Travel far enough to meet yourself!”

17.”Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

18. “Go solo, go far!”

19. It is better to see something once, than to hear about hundred times.

– Russian Proverb

20. In the end, we only regret the chances we did not take

21. Solo Travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone. It also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations. – Suzy Strutner

22. “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage, and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

23. Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to enjoy it.

24. Solo Travel is all about exploring the world and one’s own-self.

25. I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

26. As you travel solo,  totally responsible for yourself, it is inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.

27. If I would have waited for someone else to join me on my travels, I would still be waiting.

Solo Travel Quotes for Confidence

Confidence plays a big role when deciding whether you want to travel on your own – or not. We cannot take this decision for you, but this is certain: you will boost your confidence to high level when going to travel the world on your own. Here’s more quotes for travelling alone.

And certainly, you will be kicking off your travels solo, but you won’t be alone. Stay in cool hostels, meet new people. You will not be travelling alone in the end. But, it takes courage to take the first step. Find out more quotes about travelling alone.

28. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

29. “Grow up and Travel Solo. It will make you stronger, more independent, more action-taking. It will change the way other people see you.” – Hostelgeeks

30. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”

31. “Travelling Solo will replace thousands of motivational books.” – Hostelgeeks

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32. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

33. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.” –Kein Poirot

34. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha

35. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

36. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” –David Mitchell

Funny Travel Solo Quotes

I don’t know about you but we want to have some fun! We hope you find your best-loved quote for travelling!

38. I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.

39. Backpacking is money spent on Education.

40. I need a vacation so long, I forget all my passwords!

41. Work tip: Stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Go to the airport. Get on a plane. Never return.

42. Yeah, working is great…but have you tried travelling.

43. Life is short. Call in sick and book that last minute flight.

44. I feel like most of my work problems could be solved with a trip to…anywhere.

45. I googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.

Download the full list of Solo Travel Quotes

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You can download all quotes about solo travel right here or click on the photo below.

You can use it to print your own t-shirts, create some DIY home decoration of gifts for traveler friends.

Wait, there is more…much more!

Is it weird to travel solo.

No, it is not. Today it is normal for both boys and girls travel solo. It can mean freedom and getting out of the comfort zone. Solo Travel can boost your confidence to a level you did not know existed. This list of quotes for solo travel will give you a boost.

Which place is best for solo trip?

For us, the best destinations for solo-travel include Spain, Italy, Portugal, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mexico, and Costa Rica.

How do I meet solo travelers?

The best way to meet other people when travelling solo is by staying in hostels. Read our complete guide on how to make friends in hostels and how to stay safe .

Travelling solo is liberating and full of adventures. We don’t want to miss that opportunity. Travel more! Take pictures from everywhere and use our collection of solo ride quotes. 

This list is by no means a complete list. But, we would love to have a complete list. It should be as useful, as motivational as possible.

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Smile for life not for photos :))) Nice thank you for article. Tomas

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Solo travel quotes to inspire you to take that solo trip

• Post date October 25, 2020
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Solo travel quotes can inspire your wanderlust and get you to take that life changing step.

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I’ve been a solo traveller for years and I love it, but I know for many people, especially women, travelling solo may be tricky or even challenging.

Solo travel for me means, first and foremost, that I can travel with less limitations and more freedom.

It helps you grow as a person. It inevitably involved all sorts of exciting and adventurous and liberating and breathtaking and awesome experiences.

I could talk about all the advantages of solo travel for hours, but sometimes what one really needs for motivation is a really good quote.

The solo travel quotes below can be great as affirmations that will encourage you to travel solo, or at least get you to think about how taking a trip on your own can change your life 😉

Quotes about solo travel

“You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”

“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

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”

“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!”

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

Quotes to read if you’re not ready to travel alone

“Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!”

“If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!”

“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good.” – Amy Poehler

“One day you’ll wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now”. – Paulo Coelho

“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Without new experiences something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

“Some journeys can be only travelled alone!” – Ken Poirot

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”― Jack Kerouac

Solo travel is a life changing experience

“A person needs at intervals to separate themselves from family and companions and go to new places. You must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway

“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware”. – Martin Buber

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. 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.” – Freya Stark

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no-one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

“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

Solo travel quotes for confidence & courage

“Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost!”

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks

“Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

Inspirational travel quotes

“Sometimes one day in a different place will give you more than 10 years of life at home.” – Anatole France

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“If you never go, you will never know!”

“Travel far enough to meet yourself!”

“Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Go solo, go far!”

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Just go”  😉

Hope these quotes help you on your way to planning your solo trip! If you know someone who wants to travel alone but is still unsure about it, share these quotes with them.

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Loved it! I enjoyed reading your quotes. Stepping out into the unknown with no one else to rely on, you come to learn to learn so much about yourself. Often these solo trips are life-changing adventures. Fav one “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” , well said.

Quotes are always so fun! “Just go” was more unexpected than it should have been lol!

I am always drawn to the quote by mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

It’s soooo true. But then, most of these ring true to me…i am already converted. 😉

Great quotes here. I love “Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost!” If you let yourself explore the unknown and get out of your comfort zone, you discover amazing things. It’s all about (as I understand it) “do you want to follow the same itinerary as everyone else or create your own”

My favourite quote is ‘The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself’. I have travelled alone before and it is true that you are never alone. You can meet such interesting people.

I completely agree!

I love the quote “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

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63 Solo Travel Quotes that Will Inspire You

There’s something satisfying about finding quotes that describe your feelings about a place or a travel experience. The same goes for quotes that inspire you to get out of your comfort zone and start travelling solo. There are millions of inspirational quotes about travelling on the internet and many of these are about solo travel.

Travelling alone is a wonderful, life-changing experience and it can be hard to describe how it makes you feel. I’ve been travelling solo for over 6 years, and have been doing it full-time for the last 2 years and this has taught me so many valuable lessons.

That’s why I’ve put together a list of the most beautiful solo travel quotes that will either inspire you to go on that solo adventure or help you find the right words to describe the wonderful feeling of travelling on your own.

Here are 63 of the most beautiful and inspiring solo travelling quotes out there!

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Short Travelling Alone Quotes

These short and powerful solo travel quotes are perfect to use as a picture caption, whether it’s on Instagram, Facebook or somewhere else.

1 – “Travel far enough to find yourself.”  – Unknown

2 – “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”   – Buddha

3 – “When the traveller goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”   – Liberty Hyde Bailey

4 – “Don’t be scared to walk alone, don’t be scared to like it.”   – John Mayer

5 – “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”  – Maxwell Maltz

6 – “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.”   – Angela Vallely

7 – “If you never go, you will never know.”  – Anonymous

8 – “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”   – Daphne Du Maurier

9 – “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.”   – Sue Fitzmaurice

10 – “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.”  – Anonymous

11 – “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.”  – Paul Theroux

12 – “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”   – Neale Donald Walsch

13 – “Some journeys can only be travelled alone.”  – Ken Poirot

14 – “Travelling solo means getting to know the real you.”   – Anonymous

15 – “The question is not who is going to let me; the question is who is going to stop me.”   – Ayn Rand

16 – “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”   – Danny Kaye

17 – “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”   – Jeanne Moreau

18 – “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take. “   – Lewis Carroll

19 – “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.”  – Walt Whitman

20 – “All you’ve got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over.”  – Tony Wheeler

21 – “Travel is an investment in yourself.”   – Matthew Karsten

22 – “Wolves travel in packs, but the fiercest travel alone.”   – Matshona Dhliwayo

23 – “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”  – Helen Keller

24 – “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”  – Anaïs Nin

Motivational Solo Travelling Quotes

Do you need some motivation to head out there and start travelling by yourself? Then this is the right section for you!

It can be quite daunting to fly alone and head on a solo trip for the very first time but these quotes will give you the extra push to get out of your comfort zone and start travelling by yourself.

Here are the best motivational solo travel quotes!

25 – “Travelling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown

26 – “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson

27 – “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” – Unknown

28 – “Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.”   – Francis Shenstone

29 – “As you move outside of your comfort zone, what once was the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”   – Robin S. Sharma

30 – “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”   – Henry David Thoreau

31 – “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”   – Unknown

32 – “Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.”  – Helen Thayer

33 – “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.”   – Angelina Jolie

34 – “You never really travel alone, the world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.”   – Unknown

35 – “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Dream. Discover.”  – Mark Twain

36 – “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”  – Nora Roberts

37 – “A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”  – Gael Attal

38 – “True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.”   – Adam Braun

39 – “There is a big world out there, don’t wait for someone to take you by the hand. Just go.”   – Unknown

40 – “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”   – Susan Jeffers

Inspirational Travel Alone quotes

The following quotes will inspire you to go on that solo adventure. They speak about all the reasons why we choose to travel alone and how enriching solo travel is.

41 – “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”   – Suzy Strutner

42 – “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”   – Albert Einstein

43 – “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”   – Freya Stark

44 – “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” – Gina Greenlee

45 – “It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”   – Alain de Botton

46 – “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”  – Diane Von Furstenberg

47 – “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.”   – Hannah Arendt

48 – “Sometimes the journey has to be travelled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.”   – Steven Aitchison

49 – “When you’re travelling with someone else, 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

50 – “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.”   – Thomas Jefferson

51 – “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”   – Mandy Hale

52 – “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself.”   – Ann Stirk

53 – “Sometimes one day in a different place will give you more than 10 years of life at home.”   – Anatole France

54 – “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”   – Jacqueline Boone

55 – “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”   – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

56 – “Solo travel as a spiritual journey is one that frees you to shed the responsibilities of daily life, if only temporarily.”   – Janice Waugh

57 – “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.”  – Eleanor Roosevelt

58 – “It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with expectations of others.”   – Alain de Botton

59 – “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”   – Nitin Namdeo

60 – “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.”  – Mitali Meelan

61 – “Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.”   – Nico J. Genes

62 – “For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

63 – “The beauty of traveling solo is that wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.” – Shannon Ablesa

Quotes About Travelling Alone: Final Thoughts

And that was it – 63 of the most inspiring quotes about travelling alone.

Solo travel is an incredibly enriching experience, and I hope that you have found exactly what you were looking for in this post full of solo trip quotes, whether it’s a caption to accompany your photo or some motivation to get out of your comfort zone and start travelling solo!

What’s your favourite quote from this list? Or is there a beautiful quote about travelling alone that’s missing? Let me know in the comments! I’m updating this post frequently.

Are you looking for other quotes and captions? Check out the following posts :

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Laura Meyers

Laura Meyers is the founder of Laure Wanders. She was born in Belgium and has travelled to over 40 countries, many of them solo. She currently spends most of her time between Belgium and South Asia and loves helping other travellers plan their adventures abroad.

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Far out! The quotes are so true.thks for sharing these.

Nice quotes and some are so true. Number 12 and 25, these are so recognizable.

Agreed! I hope we’ll be able to travel again soon 😉

Loved it! I enjoyed reading your quotes. Stepping out into the unknown with no one else to rely on, you come to learn to learn so much about yourself. Often these solo trips are life-changing adventures. Fav one “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.”, well said. Sometimes I write about the quotes too. Here is an example post I wrote in case you or any of your readers find it interesting. Our content complements each other nicely, perhaps we can collab in some way in the future. Cheers! https://www.flaneurlife.com/solo-travel-alone-quotes/

Thank you! 🙂 I Just checked out Flaneur Life and love the topics you write about (you have interesting content on entrepreneurship and online businesses as well)! Would be great to collab in the future, perhaps we can connect on LinkedIn, FB, or IG?

Hey Laure, My name is Nitin Namdeo and I’m the founder of succedict.com.

First, thank you for showing my quote on your page https://www.laurewanders.com/inspirational-quotes-about-solo-travel/ I’m truly humbled to see that. 🙂

[ 57. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo ]

Now, could I ask you a little favor? Do you think you could refer back to my website succedict.com? It would mean the world to me since I’ve been trying hard lately to get the word out about my work.

Either way, I wish you an excellent day.

Thank you, — Nitin Namdeo Creative Writer & Blogger

Hi Nitin, thank you for your comment, I love your quote! Of course, I just added a link to your website in your name in this post. 🙂 I wish you the best of luck spreading the word, I’m sure you’ll succeed!

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Solo Travelling Quotes

Having travelled solo for more than two decades, sometimes all we need is a good travel quote to empower and motivate us.

Feel inspired to travel with travel quotes to begin your solo travels. And if you're on the road and need a dose of inspiration to get motivated about your trip again, get empowered with these lonely travel quotes, the perfect solo travelling quotes. 

Inspiring Quotes For Travelling Alone

Unsure if you can travel solo or just need a boost of inspiration to help you finally plan and book that trip? Feel inspired to start travelling with these empowering travel quotes to propel your wanderlust and leave those fears behind.  (Find more travel quotes here)

• “You don't need to know it all. Just take the first step and the rest will become clear as you move forward.” – Girl about the Globe.

2. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice.

3. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Unknown.

4. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty. 

5. “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman.

6. “The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand.

7. “If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown.

8. “Sometimes your own transportation is a leap of faith.” – Margaret Shepard.

9. “Seek adventures that open your mind.” – Girl about the Globe.

10. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” – Anonymous.

11. “Life is an adventure. Take risks.” – Anonymous. 

12. “I haven't been everywhere but it's on my list.” – Susan Sontag. 

13. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester.

14. “It always seems impossible until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela.

15. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar.

Lonely Travel Quotes On The Road

Solo travel will leave you feeling liberated, empowered and full of confidence but there may be moments on the road when you need some extra encouragement to keep going especially if periods of loneliness hit you. These traveling alone quotes are for you when you need a pick-me-up during your solo trip. 

16. “Traveling forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky..” – Cesare Pavese.

17. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson. 

18. “Sometimes you have to stand alone. Just to make sure you still can.” – Anonymous.

19. “A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu.

20. “A sense of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Mandy Hale. 

21. “The greatest bliss is being able to sit alone and be completely at peace. Needing no one. Needing nothing.” – Fearless Soul. 

22. “I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.” – Oscar Wilde. 

23. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle.

24. “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Transformation of Travel Quotes

Solo travel is transformational. Not just on an outward level but on an internal one. You may leave for a trip feeling lost and uncertain of your path in your life, but you're guaranteed to return with more clarity and feel happier with life. These quotes are a representation of the transformation of travel. 

25. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin.

26. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

27. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher.

28. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice.

29. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust. 

30. “Just because my path is different, doesn't mean I'm lost!” – Unknown. 

31. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. 

32. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau.

33. “Once the travel big bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin.

34. “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt. 

35. “We are all lost stars, trying to light up the sky.” – Adam Levine.

36. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” – Tony Robbins.

Inspiring People

I hope these quotes for travelling alone have inspired you to travel solo, whether you are looking to plan a solo trip or are already on the road and need a boost. To inspire you even more, here are some inspiring women to make you want to get out of your comfort zone. 

Roz Savage – Adventurer & Campaigner 

Roz had the perfect life: a job, a husband and a little red sports car but forward five years and she was divorced, homeless and alone in a tiny rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean… Read Roz's interview here. 

Ginger Kern – TEDx Speaker & Global Shaper

Ginger is the inspiring founder behind the Traveler’s Mindset, a movement to get people out of their comfort zone and into the zone where the magic happens. A TEDx speaker and Global Shaper as part of the World Economic Forum, Ginger speaks at events around the United States to share how Americans can travel, live, and work abroad. Watch Ginger's TEDx speech here.  

If They Can Do It, So Can You!

Cherie King

Cherie King (aka The Travel Bee) is an inspiring young woman. Having encountered many difficulties as a deaf traveller, she decided to document her travels on her blog: The Flight of the Travel Bee to enlighten others about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. * Read Cherie's interview

Hollie Carr

Hollie Carr is an  author, TEDx speaker and co-founder of Rainmaker Foundation – a community dedicated to making the world a better place for all.  Hollie is also a solo female traveller and it was during her trip to China to teach English that she discovered life-changing Chinese insights   which became the inspiration behind her book – An Invitation to the Life of Your Dreams. * Listen to Hollie's TEDx talk

Great Women Travellers

Frances Kemble Known for her stand against the harsh treatment of slavery, after a two-year tour to the Americas in the nineteenth-century. Frances set up a hospital for those in need whilst dealing with her own mental illness.

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43 Solo Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You To Travel Alone

I’ve collected many solo travel quotes that have inspired my own travels in the past few years and I’ve compiled all of them and put them in this blog post. I feel these quotes on travelling alone resonate with how I feel about living the life I want and achieving all my travel dreams.

And I know many of you are travelling alone too. I recently read that 65% of solo travellers are female and are between 30 and 80 ! That’s so crazy! 

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43 solo travel quotes that will inspire your inner wanderlust

So I have a long list of travel solo quotes that I want to share with you. I’ve organized them into different sections so you can scroll through them easily.

And I’ve given some of my own thoughts about these travelling alone quotes.

Also, I hope you take your time while reading each solo travel quote because each of them are meant to initiate thoughts and feelings about your own travel solo journey. Or in life in general. Whenever I read these quotes, I always try to relate it back to my solo journey and how grateful I am for starting travelling by myself early on.

Okay, I’ll stop rambling and let you read these quotes for travelling solo.

Short and sweet quotes for travelling alone

Here are some short and sweet quotes about how travelling can transform your life . I’m a true believer of that and I am a living proof! If I didn’t go on my first solo trip, I wouldn’t understand how it feels to travel by myself and how it transformed my life.

And if you are someone who is on the fence about travelling on your own, my suggestion is to start small and easy. Spend an afternoon by yourself or go on a day trip around your city and see how you feel about your being on your own.

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong. Sue Fitzmaurize

Travel brings power and love back to your life. Rumi

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. Liberty Hyde Bailey

If you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime!  Unknown

You have to get lost before you can find yourself.  John Green

Some journeys can be only travelled alone.  Ken Poirot

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch

Solo travelling quotes about the joy of the journey

I remember when I tried to explain the happiness and joy from my first solo trip to my friends when I returned home. I don’t think they understood it. But that’s okay. As long as I get it, that’s all that matters. 

I always feel energized when I come home from a solo trip because travelling alone allows you to spend time the way you want and you get to be with your own thoughts .

And I’ve changed the way I travel solo over the years. I am learning how to slow travel and enjoy each moment. Rather than doing a hundred things in a day, I would go for a walk in the park, read a book or buy food at a local market. And I am learning to be fully present and be appreciative of the moment. And I feel I can only do this when I travel alone. 

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

Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey. Nico J. Genes

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. Pico Iyer

Travel alone quotes about solo adventure

Whenever people ask me about travelling solo, I always suggest trying it. Everyone has a different experience of travelling alone. 

If you don’t like it, at least you can say you’ve tried travelling on your own. And you put a big checkmark on your to-do list, say you’ve done it, move on and never do it again. 

But if you love it, you have just entered into a world that you can only dream of. And the journey only gets better! 

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely aware is to be continuously thrown out of the nest. Pema Chödrön

Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once! Unknown

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown. You travel for the unknown, the reveals you within yourself. Ella Maillart

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one thing that is going to require the most from you. Caroline Myss

The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure. Debasish Mridha

I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.  Micheline Jean Louis

Travelling alone quotes about solitude and being by yourself

I came across several Facebook groups for female solo travellers and there were comments about solo travel and how it is lonely to travel on your own.

Travelling solo and being alone is very different . I never once felt I was lonely. Yes, I am alone but being alone and feeling lonely are not the same thing.

In fact, I always crave for this type of solitude because I really like being on my own. Perhaps its because I am an only child and I know how it feels to be by myself my whole life.

Before my first solo trip at 26, I was nervous too. But I learned to love the solitude even more when I am travelling . And it is the best feeling ever!

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Matlz

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. Daphne du Maurier

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. The Dhammapada

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

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey. Many Hale

The woman who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been. Albert Einstein

Solo travel quotes about strength

I never thought I’d be someone who would travel solo. But travelling solo has helped me to become a more confident person in many different facets of my life . I can take more chances when it comes to travel, willing to go to places that I have never been before and enjoying the process and not be in a state of fear. 

Moreover, I feel my confidence also transpired to my everyday life . I am more outspoken, not afraid to do most things, be more initiative and more decisive.

Because I took my first solo trip many years ago, I am forever a changed person and am grateful for all my solo travel experiences .

Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations. Suzy Strutner

As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are. Unknown

Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you. Steven Aitchison

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

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

Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin

Solo travel quotes about learning something new about yourself

Nothing you learn in school can prepare you for what you will learn when you travel solo. There is no syllabus that will show you exactly what you will see or encounter. And there is no grading system to let you know if you passed or failed. 

I didn’t think I would be brave enough to travel on my own. It was such a foreign theory to me at the time, and nobody around me was travelling solo. But it wasn’t really about bravery. It was about trying new things and discovering what I like. 

For me, travelling solo is the best way to learn about yourself and discovering yourself and find out what you are capable of. 

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

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It’s a unique experience and one that is so self-educating. Kunal Khemu

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. Hannah Arendt

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient. Grace Lichtenstein

A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.  Pico Iyer

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro

Spiritual solo travel quotes

And to finish off the list of quotes about travelling alone, here are some spiritual quotes that can relate it back to travel solo.

It is always about the journey and enjoying every moment whether it is good or bad. There is always a learning opportunity and the soul continues to learn. 

I truly believe that travelling solo has allowed me to be the person I am meant to be . If it weren’t for travelling, my life would be very different now. 

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it. Nitin Namdeo

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. Paulo Coelho

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.  Aristotle

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.  Rumi

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Which travel alone quotes do you resonate with?

I hope you enjoyed reading all my favourite solo travel quotes. It is a growing list so come back often and see what other travel alone quotes I add to the list.

And which quotes for travelling alone do you resonate with? Let me know in the comments below.

Moreover, I hope you can be inspired and motivated to go on your first solo trip. There are many places that are excellent for first time solo travellers and many things you can do while travelling on your own .

Thank you for reading my post about solo travel quotes

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• 10 off-the-beaten-path travel destinations for solo travellers
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• Don’t let fear stop you from travelling

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Hi, my name is Queenie, and I've been a solo traveller for 20+ years and currently based in Hong Kong. Follow me on my adventures through Instagram and my blog!

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I love love loveeee this post so much!! Solo travelling is so empowering. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life thus far and I can’t encourage people enough to really give it a shot. That quote by Suzy Strutner is so true and powerful. Definitely writing that one down as a reminder. Thanks for this post!

Hi Kae, thank you for your comment. Sooo happy you love the post. I had some of these quotes written in different places so I thought I would compile it all in the same place. Hope you are well 🙂

Loved it! I enjoyed reading your quotes. Stepping out into the unknown with no one else to rely on, you come to learn to learn so much about yourself. Often these solo trips are life-changing adventures. Fav one “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown. You travel for the unknown, the reveals you within yourself.”, well said. Sometimes I write about the quotes too. Here is an example post I wrote in case you or any of your readers find it interesting. Our content complements each other nicely, perhaps we can collab in some way in the future. Cheers! https://www.flaneurlife.com/solo-travel-alone-quotes/

Nitin Namdeo

Hi Queenie, My name is Nitin Namdeo and I’m the founder of succedict.com.

First, thank you for showing my quote on your page https://www.mstravelsolo.com/solo-travel-alone-quotes/ I’m truly humbled to see that. 🙂

[ “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo ]

Now, could I ask you a little favor? Do you think you could refer back to my website succedict.com? It would mean the world to me since I’ve been trying hard lately to get the word out about my work.

Either way, I wish you an excellent day.

Thank you, Nitin

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100+ Wisest Solo Travel Quotes

We all love a good solo travel quote. They ignite a curiosity inside us, inspire us to get up off the couch, and sometimes, give us that push of courage to go!

There are plenty of solo travel quotes floating around the web, from the classics you see on every Instagram feed (“ Not all those who wander are lost” ), to the motivational, philosophical, and super poetic.

But what about the wisest? The travel solo quotes which are thought provoking, which change your mindset, and actually impart wisdom?

Here you’ll find 100+ of our favorites – copy and paste them to social media, share the images to Pinterest, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip. Share this post to inspire others to also travel alone !

After you get some inspiration from these wise solo travel quotes, go to our funny travel quotes article to laugh out loud!

• 1 Solo Travel Quotes to Give You Courage
• 2 Solo Travel Quotes for Inspiration
• 3 Wise Advice (Packaged as a Solo Trip Quote)
• 4 Solo Travel & Personal Growth Quotes
• 5 You’ll Laugh at These Travel Alone Quotes
• 6 Solo Female Travel Quotes
• 7 Quotes About the Solo Travel Experience
• 8 Solo Travelling Quotes You Haven’t Heard Before
• 9 Classic Travel Alone Quotes
• 10 Save These Travel Alone Quotes to Pinterest

Solo Travel Quotes to Give You Courage

#1 “don’t be scared to walk alone. don’t be scared to like it.” — john mayer.

We love this solo travel quote, as taking the first step is most often the scariest part of solo travel. And many people will let fear convince them that it’s OK not to even try, because once they get out into the world, they probably won’t even like it.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

For most solo travelers, that first trip is a liberating experience, though you have to be open to actually enjoying the experience. So we encourage you to not let fear get in the way of actually booking, but also to fully embrace the experience, and not be scared to like it!

#2 “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question” – Harun Yahya

I think all we can say to this is:

#3 “Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good.” – Amy Poehler

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#4 “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks

It’s true – once you’ve made up your mind that you’re going to travel solo, your subconscious accepts that it’s going to happen. You might still experience certain levels of nervousness, excitement, fear, and anxiety in the lead up, but acceptance overwhelmingly diminishes fear.

#5 “One day you’ll wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now”. – Paulo Coelho

We love this solo trip quote, because it encourages everyone to live life to the fullest, and reminds us that none of us are guaranteed ‘someday’.

Don’t plan for ‘someday’.

Plan to live your life now.

#6 “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

#7 “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

Well, do you?

#8 “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

One of the most common questions we’re asked as solo travelers is ‘don’t you get lonely’?

Because this is a big fear many people have of traveling alone (the fear of being alone is a legitimate anxiety disorder called Autophobia /  Monophobia ).

But there’s a certain beauty to being confident, comfortable, and happy in your own company, and if you have a good relationship with yourself, you’ll find that you’re never lonely on the road. For those times when you are, it’s easy enough to meet new people when traveling on your own , which is why this is such a relevant solo travel quote.

#9 “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

It is expected that someone like Elizabeth Gilbert, author of word famous Eat, Pray, Love, thinks this way, and we also agree that a generous dose of conviction in the powers of solo travel is required to take the first step in trip planning .

#10 “Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it.” – Amy Dodson

Women are often told “don’t do this”, “you can’t travel alone without a man”, “you can’t go to this country because you will not be safe”, etc. Don’t live someone else’s life – live your own.

Research a destination that has what you like and want, prepare and plan for anything that can happen, get travel insurance , follow all the safety precautions and get ready to have a great trip. This quote could not be more applicable to a solo trip!

#11 “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

Helen Keller was spot on with this quote. Many people are afraid to travel solo because they fear it’s unsafe. However most destinations around the world are just as safe as the place you live in, and  you’re just as likely, if not even more likely, to be caught out in a dangerous situation when you’re at home. 

For instance, did you know that falling out of bed claims 450 American lives yearly? Ladders, lawn mowers, and even vending machines are among the mundane, every day objects which can be dangerous – but you don’t avoid buying a chocolate bar because a between two and four people die each year due to vending machine accidents.

While traveling comes with its own risks, it is the fear of the unknown , or xenophobia, that makes us more scared of a solo trip rather than the actual risk of visiting a place which may carry the same dangers as going about our daily life.

If that’s the case, you may as well travel solo. Remember this solo travel quote next time you are considering to go on a trip on your own.

#12 “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

Word. A wise quote perfectly suitable for a solo trip.

#13 “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

It’s true – the more courageous you are to try new things in life, the richer and more fulfilling your life becomes. You have far more possibilities in life when you are open to them, and travel opens the mind like nothing else.

Remember this saying next time you are afraid of doing something, anything, and specifically when booking your next solo trip .

#14 “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

We plan to travel, and explore every inch of this beautiful, fascinating, chaotic, and culturally diverse world! 

#15 “Just go” – Every Solo Traveler Ever

Yep, this may not sound like the most complex of our solo travel quotes, but it sure is the one holding the most truth. 

Solo Travel Quotes for Inspiration

#16 “dare to live the life you always wanted” – unknown.

One of the most inspiring of the traveling solo quote (though it applies to many situations in life), be daring, and be brave, build the life of your dreams and make sure that it includes traveling on your own.

#17 “Reality is negotiable” – Unknown

#18 “life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. but rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming …. wow what a ride.” – mark frost.

Going on an adventure can truly feel like this travel quote, and is there a greater adventure than a solo trip? 

#19 “It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.” – Mae Chevrette

It’s true – we’re all capable of embracing adventure, facing our fears, and living our best life. Freedom, flexibility and the ability to do what we want is one of the main reasons we travel solo.

While everybody who lives, will die, not everybody who dies, has lived.

Ponder that for a moment!

#20 “Sometimes, one day in a different place will give you more than 10 years of life at home.” – Anatole France 

This solo travel quote is another of our favorites, because even if you only muster the courage to take a weekend trip alone, just having spent 48 hours outside of your comfort zone can teach you more about both yourself, and the world, than you ever would have otherwise known.

#21 “Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If you asked a die hard traveler to choose between travel, ambition, or love, well…It’d be a tough choice!

As any solo traveler will tell you, their love to traveling independently is as deep as any addiction, which is why we appreciate this solo travel quote so much.

#22 “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 Eberhardt

Or in other words, once you’ve seen the sun shine on the other side of the world, once you’ve raised a glass with locals, laughed in a foreign tongue, tasted exotic food, and been exposed to the wonders of the world outside your bubble, you’ll never be content with life as it once was.

When it comes to travel solo quotes we can all relate to, this one explains the feeling of wander and wonder more than any other.

#23 “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

After-all, if you’re so consumed with making sure you don’t run into any hiccups, you’ll probably never end up taking that trip, and that would be a shame.

The very beauty of travel, and very thing which encourages the most personal growth, are the bumps, hiccups, and ‘potholes’ in the road. You learn to find solutions, you prove to yourself that you can overcome any challenges and you grow as a person.

These are also the stories you remember and retell for decades to come.

I mean, which epic tale of adventure has ever started with ‘Everything went smoothly’?! Remember this fun solo traveling quote next time you are going through a truly bumpy road.

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#24 “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

It’s true – and to pull a quote from Nelson Mandela, to explain this epic solo travel quote;

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Once you take the first step towards that trip on your own, you will suddenly realize the world of opportunities ahead of you. If you need a confidence boost, join some of the best Facebook travel groups to get inspired!

#25 “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

It’s tough to move forward when you feel as though your present is trapped by your past.

But it doesn’t have to be.

Your future can be whatever you want it to be. Go on, save for that trip and just go.

#26 “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” – Margaret Shepard

Traveling on your own certainly feels like a massive leap of faith, especially that first time.

#27 “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Unknown

It’s true – travel is scary, and traveling alone even more so. But of all the travel alone quotes, this one is particularly wise and poignant, because after-all, the scariest and toughest paths to follow are often the most rewarding.

Plus, of all the testimonials we have on our website, this is perhaps the feeling that most resonates with those going on their first trip.

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Wise Advice (Packaged as a Solo Trip Quote)

#28 “don’t call it a dream…call it a plan” – unknown.

It’s very simple, but very powerful psychology – if you call it a plan instead of a dream, you’re affirming to yourself that it WILL happen.

#29 “Traveling is not something you’re good at, it’s something you do, like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

One of the rare solo traveling quotes that sums up how almost every solo traveler feels – travel is simply not something you can do without once you’ve tried it.

It’s just as important to life as oxygen.

#30 “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

How true is that solo travel quote?

First hand experience will always  trump second hand knowledge, and so often people’s tales and experiences with a destination are influenced based on their own personal interests, style, and bias. In today’s social media and connected world, this saying is even more true.

When you visit a place for the first time you almost always realize that most of what you’ve been told about the place is completely wrong – but the only way to find out is to plan a trip and visit.

So pack that suitcase , and go see for yourself so your opinions are based on your own first hand experience.

#31 “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

Throughout his life, Anthony Bourdain had many classic quotes with thoughts on life and culture and pretty much any other topic, and he inspired many travelers to get out and explore the world solo.

These specific words are truly timeless when it comes to the impact of traveling solo .

#32 “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

At some point, there’s only so long you can wait for your friends to be willing and ready to join you until you realize that you’re going to have to travel alone. Sometimes waiting for people to join you means you’ll never travel at all.

If you are scared, research a destination and plan our trip in detail ; If you are afraid to feel lonely, find ways to meet people or find a travel buddy ; If you want to have great pictures of your trip, learn how to take photos of yourself alone .

Whatever you need to do, but don’t wait up on others.

#33 “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt

Nothing, and we mean  nothing  will  ever  beat seeing something for yourself.

It just won’t.

That’s why we love this honest solo trip quote.

#34 “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner.

Beat those stereotypes and don’t stick to meeting what others expect of you, only what you want to get for yourself.

#35 “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten

Solo travel means spending more time with yourself than ever before, without the interruptions of day to day life, without work or friends. You deserve it.

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#36 “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling

We sometimes hear our members say that they tried to go on their first solo trip and did not enjoy it. They took a risk, and it did not work out. And that’s ok, life is about taking risks, failing and learning.

#37 “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” – Holly Morris

We agree. Adventure  should  be part of everybody’s life. 

Ultimately, do you want to simply exist? Or do you want to  live ?!

And there is no greater adventure than a solo trip and that’s why we included this deep quote in our list.

#38 “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

Write your own chapters in-between and make sure solo travel is included in some.

#39 “A person needs at intervals to separate themselves from family and companions and go to new places. You must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway

Of all the wise solo travel quotes on this list, this one is perhaps the one which most simply states the truth about traveling solo. No matter what great friends or family you have, spending time away and with yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

#40 “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

One of the most commonly mustered solo travel quotes , Mark Twain’s paragraph is the perfect encouragement to catch that first flight .

Solo Travel & Personal Growth Quotes

#41 “a mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”. – oliver wendell holmes, jr..

Both physically and metaphorically true, this quote is so true when it comes to travel.

Once you’ve been exposed to new ways of seeing the world, new perspectives, new ways of doing things, and new ways of thinking, your mind will have been stretched and will never fit back within the box it first came in.

Reverse culture shock is how those whose minds have been “overstretched” feel when they return to their old life.

#42 “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

This perfectly sums up traveling alone and explains why we all feel much more introspective and like we can finally send time with ourselves when we go on a solo trip.

#43 “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware”. – Martin Buber 

This is one of the classic solo travelling quotes, and speaks to the hidden personal growth people often discover from traveling – lessons they didn’t sign up for and were least expecting.

#44 “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

We could not agree more with Thomas Jefferson and this simple yet powerful quote about solo travel.

#45 “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

It surely does, and a solo trip is the best way to get over the fence of your comfort zone.

#46 “Without new experiences something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

Every time we try something new we fire new neural connections and that’s why it is so great for general mental wellbeing. Traveling solo, by definition, will activate a lot of those connections and it’s why it has such a rewarding effect on our own confidence. 

#47 “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

You could argue that we are all susceptible to wanderlust, or at least, we have never met anyone who is not addicted to travel, but it is true that what is actually addictive is the change, the learning, the growth, the building of your self confidence, the excitement that comes with new things.

#48 “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

As solo travel quotes goes this one is a favorite one among our members because it is a realisation you may not have before going on a solo trip but which is certainly something you get back home after that first trip on your own.

Besides traveling somewhere new, it is the journey inside your brain and your own mind that is probably the most addictive part of a solo tip.

#49 “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

Being exposed to the world is the greatest gift you can give yourself. 

#50 “Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

Have you ever felt like you need to get away from your familiar environment to find out how much you love it? Perspective is golden.

This quote about traveling alone is a great reminder of just that.

#51 “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” – Unknown

This is the most spot on of all the alone travel quotes on this list; When you travel solo you learn to rely on yourself, and with this independence comes a great sense of confidence in your abilities, and greater sense of self worth. This is perhaps the greatest benefit of traveling alone .

You quickly realize you  are  capable of catching connecting international flights, navigating your way around a foreign city, and ordering food in a restaurant where you don’t speak the language.

After you’ve spent some time traveling solo, and learned to trust your decision making and trust in yourself, anything will seem possible.

#52 “Some journeys can be only travelled alone!” – Ken Poirot

Whether you read this travel alone quote in the metaphorical sense, for a journey of personal growth, or in the literal sense, where all of your friends have bailed and you’ve been left to travel alone, it rings true on many different levels!

Thanks Ken!

#53 “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

There’s no-where to hide when you’re traveling alone, and you certainly can’t hide from yourself. Solo travel will shine a very strong spotlight on your strengths and your weaknesses, and in doing so you’ll learn a lot about yourself. This is often impossible when you can retreat to the comfort of your home and it’s what makes this quote on solo travel so raw and honest to the reality of traveling on your own.

#54 “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

You’ll Laugh at These Travel Alone Quotes

#55 “if you have to wait for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime” – unknown.

We touched on this in solo travel quote #32, but it’s such wise advice that it’s been repackaged and re-worded so many times!

It’s always true!

#56 “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” – Erma Bombeck

#57 “watching sunsets around the world is boring – said no one ever” – unknown.

Literally – we doubt you’ll find  anyone  who’s  ever  said this!

#58 “I travel a lot. I hate having my life disrupted by routine”. – Caskie Stinnett 

It’s true. There’s quite a classic solo travel quote which goes hand in hand with this one quite nicely: “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you”.

Whether or not this is true (that monotony can prove deadly), we’re not willing to risk our lives to find out!

#59 “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne Du Maurier

Did you ever notice that you pay more attention to the places, the sounds, the flavors and the smells on a trip you take with yourself? This solo travel quote explains just what most of us who love to travel solo have realised; you are just more in the moment and more immersed in the destination when you don’t have company to distract you.

#60 “Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy” – Fanny Burney

Solo Female Travel Quotes

#61 “good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – mae west.

We know which girl we prefer to be! 

#62 “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other” – Norma Shearer

We don’t mind getting a bit dirty!

#63 “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

Be the queen of your own world and follow in the footsteps of this quote on traveling solo by exploring and discovering.

#64 “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”  – Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was one of the most important modernist writers of the 20th-century, and while she was more than just a women’s writer , her quotes and writings still have particular relevance to females to this day, almost 80 years after her death.

We particularly love the application of this quote into the solo travel context; it truly sums up the feeling of those of us who identify as ‘citizens of the world’.

#65 “We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.” –  Rosalyn Sussman

We’re working to disprove this and hope that travel can help open doors and minds.

#66 “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

Don’t let fear hold you back from making genuine connections with people abroad, they may turn into a lifetime friendship.

#67 “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

You will always have yourself and a solo trip will show you just how capable and strong you can be.

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#68 “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.” – Dilma Rousseff

And we hope that this spirit extends to solo travel.

#69 “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” – Barbara De Angelis

Traveling on your own as a woman is one of the most empowering adventures you can go on and it is also a great reminder to devote some time to yourself, so don’t forget about this quote when on your next solo trip.

#70 “If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can’t they fly in Space?” – Valentina Tereshkova

Seriously. Why can’t they.

#71 “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.”  – Edna Gardner Whyte

Despite living in a modern, progressive age, where gender equality is widely championed and accepted, we still live in a society where women are underestimated, and their capabilities often undervalued.

“Women are not interested in traveling alone”

This was the answer a member of our community got from her university’s panel when she pitched her final year project: A planning app for women traveling solo. It seems the panel was out of touch with the reality:

– 2016-19 Google searches for “Solo Female Travel” have increased 400% – 65% of US women in a relationship also vacation solo – 80% of the travel decisions are made by women

So, to quote Edna Gardner Whyte , a pilot for over 60 years, and a pioneer aviator, – “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do”!

#72 “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

#73 “i’ve never found my sex a hinderment; never faced a difficulty, which a woman, as well as a man, could not surmount; never felt a fear of danger; never lacked courage to protect myself. i’ve been in tight places and have seen harrowing things.” – harriet chalmers adams.

Be like Harriet: fearless!

Quotes About the Solo Travel Experience

#74 “to awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. you are surrounded by adventure. 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.” – freya stark.

Freya Stark is perhaps one of the most commonly quoted writers of the 20th century; and explorer and travel writer who lived for 100 years between 1893 – 1993, she wrote more than 25 books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan – countries that are still considered off the beaten path for travelers almost 100 years later.

A true pioneer in solo female travel, Freya was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert so this is one of our favorite solo travel quotes on this list.

#75 “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

There is so much truth to this – people around the world are overwhelmingly kind, and we truly believe that once people travel, and realize this – form connections with locals, and realize the warmth of their hearts and hospitality, it would bridge many cultural divides.

#76 “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

Meeting new interesting people is one of the greatest benefits of traveling alone . After-all, the motto of every solo traveler is that strangers are simply friends you haven’t met yet!

#77 “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

#78 “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no-one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt

This solo travel quote speaks to the liberating nature of traveling alone. You’re free from any limitations you feel you may face at home – nobody abroad knows you so you can embrace your ‘true self’, or the self you most wish to be.

You can step outside of the limitations of your reputation, of your friends and family’s expectations, and be truly free.

#79 “London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.” – Laura Fraser

It’s absolutely true! You don’t have to go far or wide to seek adventure – don’t think you have to throw yourself straight in the deep end on a solo tour to an exotic land or culture – start small, and even an adventure in your own backyard can offer the same type of adventure and exhilaration if you’re doing it on your own. Never forget this quote on solo travel next time you explore our backyard.

#80 “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

Also playing into our above note on the liberating nature of solo travel; you’re not judged as harshly as you are at home, and you can freely live, explore, and enjoy the world, on your own terms, without being unduly noticed.

#81 “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

We truly do love the wisdom of Anthony Bourdain and this quote that best explains what happens on a solo trip is one of his best.

Solo Travelling Quotes You Haven’t Heard Before

#82 “live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – stephen covey.

Though do learn how to read one first!

#83 “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac

Seriously – when was mowing the lawn  ever  memorable?! Go climb Kilimanjaro instead!

#84 “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

If you are told traveling solo is not for you, remember not to let anyone question your choices or make you fit in their mould, remember this wise solo travel quote and go on with your own view of the world.

#85 “I fear regret more than I fear failure” – Unknown

It’s true that we get to the end of our lives, and regret the things we  didn’t  do, far more than the things we did.

Live a life without regrets. Go travel solo!

#86 “Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” – Libba Bray

Whether you call it the travel bug, itchy feet, restlessness, or a serious case of wanderlust, there is a certain magic to travel which will hypnotize, and forever change you.

And travel is an addiction from which there is no known cure, and most will never recover!

But we don’t say this lightheartedly – travel addition is very real . Psychiatrists have historically named extreme cases of the travel bug as “dromomania”: a diagnoseable condition where the primary symptom is an uncontrollable urge to walk or wander.

The term was officially added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders  as an “impulse-control disorder” and “psychiatric problem” in 2000. The definition states: “sufferers have an abnormal impulse to travel; they are prepared to spend beyond their means, sacrifice jobs, lovers, and security in their lust for new experiences.”

#87 “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

You’ll find you stop missing home the moment you leave. This is a travel quote we love, even if it sounds contradictory.

#88 “To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.” – Raquel Cepeda

Ever heard people say experiences make you richer than material bling?

There’s truth to this!

#89 “We live in a wonderful 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

You don’t have to go too far to have adventures, sometimes, all it takes is for us to open our eyes to what’s around us with renewed curiosity.

#90 “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha

Even the Buddha had a solo travel quote to share and he for sure was on to something. Don’t wait up on others, set forth.

#91 “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr.

Forget about the showing off and the social media likes and instead focus on what good you can bring others. Live by this solo trip quote, always.

Classic Travel Alone Quotes

#92 “i am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – mary anne radmacher.

One of our favorite classic solo travel quotes from Mary Anne Radmacher, who is a writer, artist and public speaker often covering topics on living a full, creative, and balanced life.

Many of her quotes are worthy for this list – another we love perhaps belongs in our section above on solo travel quotes to give you courage:

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

#93 “Where-ever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

This is true of every aspect of life, but we particularly love it when applied to the context of solo travel.

#94 “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 Danish author captured this so perfectly, beautiful and succinctly – to travel truly is to live!

#95 “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

Another of Helen’s amazing pieces of wisdom, this is also one of the most repeated solo female travel quotes of all times because it so simply spells the “carpe diem” mentality.

#96 “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

The great explorer Ibn Battuta was one of the first and most epic world adventurer and he sure understood the power of setting off on an epic trip. This famous travel quote is another of the most repeated ones.

#97 “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

#98 “the impulse of travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – agnes repplier .

#99 “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

Travel will very quickly shatter any pre-conceived notions of your own self importance, or that the world revolves around you. The world is populated by 7.8 billion  people  and this realization is a very humbling experience.

Travel will keep you modest, and keep you grounded.

#100 “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

And the world, if we may say so, is a pretty compelling page turner!

Trust us, you don’t want to put it down having only read one page!!

#101 “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

It’s true – that’s literally not what they’re built for. We’ll let you draw the metaphor to solo travel.

#102 “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

Solid, wise advice to live by concentrated in this travel quote.

#103 “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

We will finish this list of wise solo travel quotes with what is most likely the most well known of all by Susan Sontag.

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100 Most Inspiring Solo Travel Quotes

Thinking of travelling alone and searching for some travel solo quotes to inspire you? You’re in the right place. I know how scary solo travel can feel, I took my first solo trip to Australia when I was 18.

I’d just finished university and had a job starting a few months later, so I had some free time with no plans. My friends were taking gap years and were saving up to travel the following year, so it was either go alone, or don’t go at all. Although it felt really overwhelming at first, that trip changed me, and made me realise I can do anything I set my mind to. 

Since then, I’ve travelled to multiple countries on my own, and I’m pretty good at giving myself a pep talk if I’m ever feeling scared. But sometimes, there’s nothing like an inspirational quote to reassure you that even though it might feel scary, it’s SO worth it in the end. 

In this article, I’ve put together 100 of my favourite quotes to inspire your solo travel adventure. I’ve also added some pictures you can pin to your board on Pinterest, in case you want to come back to them later. Hopefully, after reading it, you’ll feel ready to take on the world. Ready for the 100 most inspiring travel solo quotes ? Let’s go. 

My FAVOURITE quote for solo travel

• “Feel the fear and do it anyway” – Susan Jeffers

This quote gets its own section because it’s my favourite quote ever, and not just for solo travel but for everyday life. I’m a big believer in acknowledging your fear and pushing through it, and not letting it hold you back.

Whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed, this is the quote I whisper to myself. And I’ve used it a LOT. Most recently, was last summer, when my boyfriend and I visited Montserrat, a mountain range near Barcelona. We decided to walk up rather than take the cable car, and there’s different walking routes you can take depending on your experience level. I’d asked him multiple times to check which one we were taking because I know how easy it is to end up basically mountaineering, and I have a crippling fear of heights.

About 45 minutes later we were on a very narrow path, on the side of a mountain, after definitely taking the wrong route. I was completely overwhelmed and sat down on the floor crying like a toddler. It might sound like an overreaction, but for me, looking down the side of a mountain at a sheer drop is TERRIFYING. 

He immediately said “let’s go back and find a different way” but I’m extremely stubborn. So that wasn’t an option that even entered my head. 

I reminded myself of this quote, and it helped push me to keep going. That and the fact I gripped my boyfriend’s hand and refused to look over the edge. 

It’s the perfect travel solo quote – sure, there’s going to be times you’re scared, and that’s fine, just don’t let it stop you experiencing things.

Ok, now I’ve shared my favourite quote for solo travel, here’s the other 99. I’m just going to list the rest, no more long-winded stories!

Travel solo quotes to encourage you to take the leap

One of the hardest parts about planning to travel solo, is having the confidence to take the first step and book the trip. So these are my favourite travel solo quotes to remind yourself of if you’re debating whether to go for it. 

• “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
• Do not fear failure, but please, be terrified of regret. – Deshauna Barber
• “You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.” Colin Wright
• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch
• “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia De Castro
• Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. – Gayle Foreman
• If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something. – Gloria Steinem
• “Take the risk, or lose the chance” – Unknown 
• Don’t ever accept anyone else’s preconceived limitations. If there’s something you want to do, there isn’t any reason you can’t do it. – Amy Dodson
• The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me? – Ayn Ran
• “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
• “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gorde
• “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer
• “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” — Margaret Shepard
• “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” — Anna Quindlen
• “People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” — Paulo Coelho
•  “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” — Wendell Berry
• “You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” — Kirsten Hubbard
• “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
• “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” —Brene Brown
• “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
• “Solo travel will push you out of your comfort zone and give you a confidence boost like nothing else can.” – Anonymous
• “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie
• “Adventure awaits those who dare to leave their comfort zone.” – Unknown
• “I travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape me.” – Unknown
• “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro
• “Adventure awaits for those who wander.” – Anonymous
• “Solo travel is not a break from life, but a chance to live life to the fullest.” – Unknown
•  “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Travel solo quotes if you feel overwhelmed 

As much as I love solo travelling, sometimes, it can feel overwhelming. You might be lost, and the only person you have to find the way is yourself. You might be in a hostel, trying to pluck up the courage to start a conversation with someone, or, you might just be feeling homesick. These solo trip quotes are perfect for reminding yourself why you’re doing it, and helping you to look for the positives. 

I find it reassuring to know that other people have done this before, and have felt the exact same way I have. You’re not the only one that finds solo travel scary, and there’s comfort in that.

• “Travelling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.” – Unknown
• “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
• “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott
• “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton
• “Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little.” – Jane Wilson-Howarth
• “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.” — Unknown
• “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” — Micheline Jean Louis
• “One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.” — Sarah Glidden
• “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” — Maxwell Maltz
• “It’s ok to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” — Mandy Hale
• “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” —Arianna Huffington
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
• “In solo travel, you are forced to face your fears, discover your strengths, and learn to trust yourself.” – Unknown
• “The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

Inspiring travel solo quotes

These quotes are my favourite if you ever need to be reminded about how awe-inspiring this world is, and how much is waiting to be discovered. 

• “It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” — Anthony Bourdain
• There is a kind of magic-ness about going far away, and then coming back all changed. – Kate Douglas Wiggin“There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, “What if I fall?” Oh, but my darling, “What if you fly?” – Erin Hanson
• “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “It is better to see something once than to hear about hundred times.” — Russian proverb
• The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape. – Gina Greenlee
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
• “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustav Flaubert
•   “Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand. – Banksy
• “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” — Gina Greenlee
• “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show”
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “The solo traveller is not looking for an escape from life, but rather a way to experience it more fully.” -Shane Dallas
• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. – Hannah Arendt
• “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
• “The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of solo travel – to explore, to dream, to discover.” – Anonymous

Short travel solo quotes

• “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
• “I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.” — Carl Sagan
• “A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “Some journeys in life can only be travelled alone.” – Ken Poirot
• “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” — Rumi
• “There’s no right or wrong way to travel solo…everyone should try it at least once in their life.” — Susan Moore

Travel solo quotes about the benefits of going alone

If you’re ever feeling down about the fact you’re travelling alone, it can be helpful to remind yourself of all the benefits that come with it.

• “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson
• I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. – Daphne Du Maurier
• “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “The beauty of solo travel is that you have the freedom to follow your heart and let your spirit soar.” – Unknown
•  “Solo travel… it forces you to trust yourself, question yourself, and in turn, trust yourself even more.” — Brooke Saward
• “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey
• “If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.” — Gina Greenlee
• “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale
• “Solo travel is an opportunity to step out of your routine and embrace new adventures, experiences, and perspectives.” – Unknown
• “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”–  Henry Rollins
• “The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.”- Alan Ashley-Pitt
• “Solo travel is the perfect way to reconnect with nature, with yourself, and with the world around you.” – Unknown
• “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski
• “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux
• “Traveling alone is an opportunity to discover yourself and find your own way.” – Unknown
• “Solo travel is about finding the beauty in loneliness and learning to enjoy your own company.” – Unknown
• “Solo travel is an opportunity to discover parts of yourself that you never knew existed.” – Stephanie Lee

Long travel solo quotes

• “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” —  Anthony Bourdain
• “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
• “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” — Alain de Botton
• “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
• Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good. —Amy Poehler

Travel solo quotes for women

• “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without travelling.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess
• “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
• “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” — Albert Einstein  

The benefits of travelling solo

There’s SO many benefits of travelling alone, here’s a few of my favourites:

• You can do things on your schedule – this is my favourite thing about travelling alone. You want to get up really early and explore when there’s no around? No worries. Feeling really tired and you’d prefer to lie in? No worries. Not interested in heading to a bar and you’d prefer to read a book? All good. You can do whatever you want without having to consider another person’s interests.
• There’s no risk of falling out with someone – Travelling with another person, even just for a week, can be tricky. You’re spending all your time together, so you’re bound to get on each other’s nerves at one point. But there’s no worrying about that when you’re on your own.
• You learn so much about yourself – After travelling alone plenty of times, I truly feel that I can do anything. Something that once felt like such a big deal, feels like nothing to me now. You realise that you can do anything you put your mind to. Spending time truly alone is such a good way to understand what you like and dislike, without outside influence.
• You meet new people you might not usually cross paths with – Travelling solo is a great way to have interactions with different people. If you want to make friends, you’ll need to push yourself out of your comfort zone to talk to new people. And in turn you’ll learn more about a new culture, lifestyle, or way of doing things. It’s this interactions that broaden our horizons and change the way we view the world.

How to plan the perfect solo trip

FLIGHTS:  Find the cheapest flights using the  Skyscanner website. CAR HIRE:  I use Discover Cars whenever I’m hiring a car abroad. They compare lots of different providers and find you the best price. ACCOMMODATION:  Find the most affordable (+ beautiful) hotels on Booking.com . ACTIVITIES & DAY TRIPS: Book skip-the-line tickets to the best activities with Viator

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79 Travelling Solo Quotes to Inspire You to Travel Alone

Looking for some inspiring, empowering travelling solo quotes to help you get excited about travelling alone? Here is an extensive collection of solo travel quotes and captions that will have you counting down the days until your next solo trip.

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After visiting more than 40 countries while travelling alone, I’m a firm believer that solo travel is something every single person should try at least once in their life. The benefits of travelling alone are immense, from learning to trust your gut instinct, to staying calm in stressful situations, to enjoying your own company.

Whether you’re an experienced solo traveller like me or you’re just planning a solo trip for the first time, these solo travelling quotes are sure to inspire, empower and encourage you to dive right in to a solo adventure. Or perhaps you’ve got a friend or family member planning their solo trip and you need travelling solo quotes to put in a card or on a cake!

P.S. If you’re looking for some Instagram caption ideas I’ve got a dedicated post of 99 solo travel captions for Instagram !

So here you go, here are a bunch of thought-provoking and uplifting quotes about travelling alone.

Travelling Solo Quotes About Adventure

Want to get amped up for your upcoming solo travel journey? These solo adventure quotes will make you desperate to get out and see the world.

“I don’t know where to go next. As I get older and travel more, the world seems to open up to me, beckoning me and whispering in my ear, saying “Go”.” – Joanna Lumley

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” – Freya Stark

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

“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 Eberhardt

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

“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

“If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.” – Drew Barrymore

“There’s only one place I want to go and it’s to all the places I’ve never been.” – Nikki Rowe

“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?” – Freya Stark

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.” – Roman Payne

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

“Live your life without ever having to ask, ‘What if?'” – Ken Poirot

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

“The best thing about solo travel is to embrace the unknown, because it is in the unknown that true adventures are found.” – Unknown

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

First Time Solo Travel Quotes

If you’re about to head out on your first ever solo trip, it’s totally normal to feel a bit intimidated. Here are some inspiring and empowering first time solo travel quotes for travelling alone for the first time.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett

“If you never go, you’ll never know.” – Unknown

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“‘Single’ means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.” – Mandy Hale

“A ship is safe in the harbor. But that’s not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Buddha

“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are.” – Unknown

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Better to travel alone now than to waste years waiting for someone to join you.” – Unknown

“If you follow the crowd, you will likely get no further than the crowd. If you walk alone, you’re likely to end up in places no one has ever been before.” – Alan Ashley-Pitt

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“Lean forward into your life. Catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” – Ken Poirot

“Wherever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.” – Angelina Jolie

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

Fear of Travelling Alone Quotes

If the idea of travelling solo makes you anxious or worried, these quotes about solo travel and the fear that comes with it might help you overcome your concerns so you’re ready to hit the ground running.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Feel the fear and do it anyway” – Susan Jeffers

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!” – Unknown

“Never be afraid to travel on a new path.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

“Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself. It is not far. It is within reach.” – Walt Whitman

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Ezol Orzan

Empowering Solo Travel Quotes

I love reading quotes that make me feel empowered, confident and ready to take on the world. These are some of the best solo travel quotes to get you ready to take a giant step out of your comfort zone.

“Fall in love with your solitude” – Rupi Kaur

“If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt

“Travelling solo doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.” – Oprah Winfrey

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.” – Warsan Shire

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

“We cannot go far in life if we only take the path that everyone is taking.” – Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Solo travel not only pushes you of of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

“For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

“Nobody can discover the world for someone else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond, and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

“When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.” – Diane von Furstenberg

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” – Ayn Rand

“The best part of traveling is finding yourself.” – Ken Poirot

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” – Wayne W. Dyer

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others…Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” – Alain de Botton

Funny Quotes for Travelling Alone

We all love a good laugh, here are some quotes on solo travel that will make you giggle.

“Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Catch flights, not feelings” – Unknown

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

“You would have to tie me to a tree to stop me travelling.” – Joanna Lumley

“One life is an absurdly small allowance.” – Freya Stark

“Traveling is the great true love of my life… I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby – I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“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 Terán

“Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.” – Mandy Hale

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

I hope this list of 79 solo travel quotes has put a smile on your face, and maybe has even encouraged you to book your next solo adventure! If you have any other quotes about travelling alone that you want to share with other travellers please let me know in the comments 🥰

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MY GO-TO TRAVEL PLANNING RESOURCES Flights ✈️ I use Skyscanner to find the best flights for my trip and then I’ll always book direct with the airline to protect myself from having to deal with dodgy third parties if anything goes wrong. Trains 🚂 If I’m travelling through Europe, I try to travel by train wherever possible! For an extended trip (2+ weeks) I’ll calculate if a Eurail Pass is worth it , or I’ll book point-to-point tickets through RailEurope or the local train operator. Accommodation 🛎️ I book almost all of my accommodation through booking.com , they have a user-friendly website + app and many of their options are free cancellation, easily cancelled with a simple click of a button. Activities 🗽 I use GetYourGuide , Klook and Viator to look for activities in the places I visit, or I just Google ‘things to do in [city]’! Travel cards 💳 I’m a Wise gal through and through, they’ve been my chosen travel card for more than five years now. You can easily top up your card from your bank account or through Apple Pay, convert your money to local currency, and spend money with minimal fees and the best exchange rates around. Travel insurance 🩺 I use Cover-More NZ travel insurance for my own trips, I have a comprehensive policy and I’ve only had good experiences with them. Cover-More also has an Australian company , but if you’re from elsewhere then two popular insurance options for global travellers are SafetyWing (cheaper policy, lower coverage) and World Nomads (more expensive but significantly better coverage). Luggage 💼 I travel with Samsonite Cosmolite suitcases , one 75cm check in bag and a 55cm carry on bag, and I absolutely adore them and will never travel with anything else! They are SUPER lightweight (2.8kg and 1.9kg respectively) so I have much more space for my actual stuff. Camera gear 📸 These days many of my photos and all of my videos are with my iPhone 15 Pro Max , my main camera is a Lumix G9 but I have a secondary camera (my old one) that’s a Lumix GX85 , I use a DJI Mini 3 Pro drone and a GoPro Hero 10 . I do all my writing and editing on my HP Spectre x360 , it’s super lightweight and perfect for travel.

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A Collection Of 100+ Awesome Traveling Alone Quotes

These 100+ traveling-alone quotes are bound to spark your wanderlust for a solo travel adventure. I know many solo travelers that can attest to how traveling alone is one liberating experience. Not only does it open your eyes to see the world from a different perspective, but you learn you’re more capable of things you didn’t realize you could do. 

Whether this is your first solo travel trip or you are more seasoned, reading quotes can be uplighting. Here I have compiled an extensive list of traveling alone quotes to give you a boost of encouragement to embark on one of the most life-changing journeys. 

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Why Travel Solo

Over the years solo travel has become increasingly popular. Solo travel is empowering and molds you into a more courageous person when facing a new part of the world alone. 

My first solo travel trip to the United Arab Emirates still today has been the most memorable out of all my explorations. During my excursions alone I dealt with the good and bad, but I realized I am far more capable to handle any unexpected situation. 

Being alone gave me a nudge out of my timid comfort zone and made me one confident traveler.

102 Traveling Alone Quotes

Traveling alone is one adventure I recommended everyone experience at least once in their lifetime. 

These epic traveling-alone quotes are sure to ignite your wanderlust if it’s your first solo trip or one of many. 

Solo Travel Quotes

1| “Travel far enough to meet yourself!” -Unknown 

2| “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

3| “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha 

4| “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”- Jacqueline Boone

Solo Trip Quotes

5| “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”- Maxwell Maltz

6| “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”-Unknown

7|  “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

8| “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”- John Mayer

9| “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”-Daphne du Maurier

10| “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”- Agnes Repplier

11| “A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiar in order to be open to influences to change.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway

Travel Alone Quotes

12| “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt 

13| “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

14| “It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” – A.J. Hartley & David Hewson

15| “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” –  Walt Whitman

16| ‘When you’re traveling with someone else, 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

17| “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

Short Solo Travel Quotes

18| “Go solo, go far.” –Unknown

19| “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.” –Kein Poirot 

20|  “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury 

21| “If you never go, you’ll never know.” – Unknown

22| “Live your life by a compass, not a clock”-Erica Jon 

23| “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

24| “You will never be alone if you like the person you are with!”- Unknown

25| “Anything we fully do is an alone journey.” — Natalie Goldberg

26| “Walk your own path and be yourself.” – Joanne Nussbaum

27| “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

Quotes About Travelling Alone And Finding Yourself 

28| “You have to get lost before you can be found.” – Jeff Rasley

29| “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

30| “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

31| “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”- Unknown 

32| “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenber

33|  “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

34| “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein 

35| “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.”- Thomas Jefferson

36| “You have to get lost before you can be found.” – Jeff Rasley

37| “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you!”- Unknown

Motivational Quotes For Planning A Solo Trip

38| “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” –Unknown 

39|  “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten

40| “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

41| “Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.” – Aisha Mirza

42| “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” –  Oprah Winfrey

43| “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson 

44| “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

45| “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.

Quotes About Solo Travel And How It Can Change You

46| “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” –Marty Rubin

47| “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” – Caroline Myss 

48| “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

49|  “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” –  Henry Ford

50| “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.”- Ella Maillart 

51| “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

52| “I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, that I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feel like I’m standing next to my real life.” – Henry Rollins 

53| “A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”– Pico Iyer

Quotes Proving Solo Travel Makes You Stronger

54| “As you move outside of your comfort zone, what once was the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.” – Robin S. Sharma

55| “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” — Hannah Arendt

56| “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” –  Eleanor Roosevelt

57|  “Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.” – David Cuschieri 

58| “Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.” – Helen S. Rosenau

Quotes On How Solo Travel Changes Your Perspective 

59| “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert  

60| “Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell 

61| “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

62| “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small and in return, life – and travel – leaves a mark on you.” – Anthony Bourdain 

63| “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –  Marcel Proust 

64| “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”- Unknown

65| “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” –  Angelina Joli

66| “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”- Unknown 

67| “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss 

68| “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau 

69| “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

Quotes About Traveling Alone For Self Discovery

70| “ Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

71| “Sometimes the journey has to be traveled alone in order to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.” – Steven Aitchison

72| “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.”– Brenna Smith. 

73| “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

74| “Without new experiences, something inside of sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert

Inspirational Quotes On Traveling Alone

75| “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

76| “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –  Mark Twain 

77| “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha

78| “This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” – Becca Lee

79| “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

80| “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

81| “To say yes to life is at one and the same thing to say yes to oneself.”  Yes– Dag Hammarskjold 

82| “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” – Holly Morris

Quotes About Traveling Alone To Embrace It

83| “It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.”- Mae Chevrette

84|  “It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”  – Alain de Botton 

85| “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 

86| “It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.” – Mae Chevrette

Alone Travel Quotes

87| “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux 

88| “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.” – Cheryl Strayed 

89| “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

90| “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber

Solo Female Travel Quotes

91| “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

92| “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

93| “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.” – Jodi Hills

94| “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein

95| “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”Roman Payne

96| “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou

97| “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.” – Edna Gardner Whyte

98| “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

99| “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

100| “Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.” – Nico J. Genes

101| “I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” -Amelia Earhart

102| “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other”  – Norma Shearer

Traveling Alone Quotes Conclusion

I hope these 100+ traveling alone quotes I have compiled have sparked your enthusiasm for your solo travel adventure. Which traveling-alone quotes inspired you the most?

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I think my favourite one has to be ‘travel to be lost and found at the same time’. What a beautiful idea for a post, really enjoyed reading it. Solo travel can be so scary when you haven’t done it before, but I agree it’s one of my most memorable travel trips too!!

You’re so right Rachel. Traveling solo can be scary for the first time. But when you do it, it is a feeling no one can describe. Thanks for reading.

As a travel lover, these quotas make my day! This is an impressive list!

Thanks so much Boyana for reading. So happy to hear I made your day!

Oh my gosh I love these. I feel inspired just reading them. I travel solo often and feel super empowered by creating my own schedule and doing what I want, and this captures all of that

I completely agree with you Emma. Traveling solo you make your own rules and it is very empowering. Thanks for reading 🙂

I love to read different travel quotes for inspiration, and you’ve put a lot here that I haven’t read before so thank you!

That makes me so happy to hear Krista. Thanks for reading.

Thank you for compiling these quotes and keeping me inspired! It’s been so long since i get to travel. Hopefully we can all go back soon.

I hope we do too Mikaela. Thanks for reading. Glad you enjoyed them.

I really enjoyed this! So many great quotes that truly resonate and inspire!

So happy you enjoyed them Denise! Thanks for reading.

Love travel quotes, they are so inspirational Thank you for putting this post together!

So happy to do it Mayrui. Glad they inspired you!

Aw I love these!! Needed a little inspiration. Thank you for sharing 🙂

So glad you loved them Shanelle!

What an amazing list of quotes. I am always looking for posts like these! Thank you for sharing 🙂 Keep on inspiring!

Thanks so much Teri for stopping by. So happy you enjoyed them 🙂

I love these! I am always looking for some good travel quotes for Insta captions or really just to get inspired. Thanks for compiling so many great ones.

Thanks for reading Natalie. I love these quotes too for Insta!

These quotes are amazing! I’d never heard of most of them and I’ll def be referring to this for future insta posts. It’s always so hard to find good solo female travel quotes. My fave is the one by Roman Payne!

So happy you enjoyed them Nina. Glad you can refer to this for your future insta posts!

I need to take the advice of this quote: “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once”.- Unknown I have yet to travel alone but I think I would like it!

Francesca it is scary at first, but one liberating experience. Since I have gone on many adventures alone. I hope you get to do a solo trip soon. Thanks for reading girl!

Loving this collection of quotes! It gives you some added inspiration to go and travel solo once in a while.

Thanks for reading Krista! Traveling solo changes you so much. You realize your so much more capable of what you though you were.

WORDDD to #95 🙌🙌

Thanks for reading Shafinah! It is a good one!

These quotes are amazing especially for a solo traveler as myself. Thank you for this extensive collection.

Hey Kayy! Thank you so much! Nothing like a good quote about solo travel!

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Solo trips can be the scariest, most liberating thing of your life. learn 7 benefits of travelling alone in 2023., pavani mantripragada march 26, 2023. 2 minute read.

India’s youth has still not arrived into a zone where we have the solo trip trend.

This article is about why solo trips can be great for your individuality and how traveling alone changes the lives of many solo travelers. Read their testimonials below.

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What Is Solo Travel?

Is solo trip a good idea, why are solo trips important, are solo trips fun, how solo travels change you, women and solo trips, travel where solo travels are best, group trips vs solo trips, final thoughts, here’s the thing that i remember vividly,.

DDLJ was the first part which convinced a large part of me that solo trips can change a lot of things about you. You will find that a solo trip can teach you a lot about yourself in a way that your mundane life might not. Even Simran did not know what she was missing in her life until she met Raj while on a solo trip in Switzerland. 

Do you remember? Kangana Ranaut in the movie, Queen, and how her one trip to France how liberating and life changing experience for her. 

Bollywood and its cliched romance aside, Solo trips are interesting. That’s why we are suggesting you try it out.

First things first,

Solo Trip is a trip that you make for yourself on your own. You don’t travel with a group of friends or family. It is just yours. You get to decide where you want to go, you get to decide the time in accordance with your schedule, and it is all on your terms. The budget is decided by you. Everything is done by you.

That’s a solo trip.

Believe me on this one,

Absolutely, without a doubt. Solo trips are great. 

Especially when you feel extremely anxious about traveling with a group. I feel that solo travel has less peer pressure. Everything is on your terms. What you want to eat, how much you want to travel, what things you actually want to see. You don’t need to think that your friends will judge you if you wear this or say that or make silly mistakes in speaking the language. 

You may feel a bit scared the first time but a solo trip will surely change you and teach you a lot about yourself.

You need to know this,

Solo trips, in my opinion, are largely about finding yourself. This whole trip is about you and yourself. 

You know, like that famous dialogue, “I, me, aur myself”.

That’s what a solo trip is. You are going to find yourself in a way you never knew. Your mundane and monotonous life will not tell you striking revelations about yourself. 

So, if someone had to ask me what I knew about myself other than this, I knew nothing. That was until I went through a solo trip.

“I always thought that I can’t be happy with just myself. I needed people around me all the time. That is how it has been all the time. School was all about friends. College was all about friends, records, exams and such. Work is all about your performance, work value, money, co-workers, and promotions. So, if someone had to ask me what I knew about myself other than this, I knew nothing. That was until I went through a solo trip. All alone, by myself. Sure, it was scary but I realized that I didn’t need someone to make me happy. I am happy by myself.”

But this trip. This four month solo trip has given me clarity.

Back home, people just don’t seem to get it. They don’t have that same light in their eyes when you mention buying a flight to somewhere remote and when you try and talk about your experiences, oftentimes it can come off like bragging or that you’re being pretentious. 

The complete opposite happens when you travel. The people you’re surrounded by love traveling just as much as you do because they’re pursuing the same thing in the same country. 

You can talk about your hometowns, the places you’ve been, the places you want to go, and everyone seems to just get it. It’s this huge shift that happens once you get out of your hometown or city and it’s one of the things that I love most about solo travel.

Key Takeaway

 Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone but it also pushes you out of the zone of carrying other people’s expectations.

This is a common question,

Solo Trips are extremely fun but there are things you need to know about them. Understand truly what might be. 

The days leading to the solo trip and the first few days can be the most overwhelming part. It might also get lonely. You will be your own support system, guardian, navigator, planner, and safety net. It might be a scary part.

It will definitely be an invaluable lesson about your own self. Growth is around every corner when you travel and that’s one of the rawest parts of the travel experience. 

The first few times eating alone as well can feel weird but you’ll slowly grow into it.

You will actually learn how to love yourself the best. Nothing can teach you about you than yourself.

 Solo Trips can be the scariest, most liberating, thing of your life. Try it at least once. You will not regret it.

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1. solo trip will teach you self-dependence..

When you are doing everything yourself, you will also learn that the first person you should depend on is yourself.

2. Solo Trip will make you more confident.

You will find that at the end of this solo trip, you will find yourself more confident and clear with your ideas. That will clear away the negativity clouding you because the decision you make will purely be yours without someone subtly influencing your decisions.

3. Solo Trip will teach you how to enjoy smaller things in life

You will find that smaller things can be enjoyed in life. You enjoy looking at nature and appreciate its subtle beauty. You learn that your struggle for the big things wasn’t exactly what can make you really happy.

4. Solo Trip will develop interpersonal skills.

You will learn how exactly you can communicate with people accurately. You learn how to properly put your point across. 

5. Solo Trip will develop problem solving skills.

You will have less dependence on other people to solve issues for you. So, you find out exactly what will solve your problems and what will aggravate them. 

6. Solo Trip will help you achieve your dreams.

Solo Trip will give you that push you need to pursue the career of your dreams. It will happen during the solo trip after realizing your skills, potential, and drive to make it happen. It will help reveal how you cope with things, how you react to stress, what makes you feel safe, what makes you feel unsafe, all the things that you need to live a meaningful life.

7. Solo Trip can help you learn Various Language

This is the funniest one but it will teach you exactly how a language has to be learnt. Nothing can teach you a language like a solo trip to that place. People might laugh at your attempt but will be happy to help you out and learn it.

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We asked Bhavana Shah, Founder of Earthy Hues Tours Pvt Ltd, who owns a Travel and tour company, who quotes, “In our culture, we expect women to shoulder the burden of their family’s responsibilities, and they neglect their own needs and growth. If you feel overwhelmed or burnt out, embarking on a solo trip can be a transformative experience that helps you reconnect with yourself and feel refreshed.

As a woman, you’ve probably planned most of your family’s vacations, yet traveling for yourself has taken the backseat.

But now, it’s time to put aside that wait for a “better time” for the kids to grow up or for an extended leave from work. And what better time to get those wheels turning than Women’s Day? Instead, put yourself first.?

Every woman must embark on a solo trip at least once. Solo travel reintroduces you to YOU – your strengths and weaknesses. It pushes you to fight your fears and inhibitions. And it showers you with a sense of independence.

Bhavana Shah, Founder of Earthy Hues Tours Pvt Ltd

We even asked a few Indian solo travelers what they thought about their experience with solo traveling and their benefits.  And one of the solo travelers, Shatabdi (aka bongexpress), quotes, 

“It’s the best way to travel if you know how to keep safe.

It makes you a more confident being. You don’t have to oblige anyone’s demands and can choose what you want to do with your time. It gives you more freedom and peace. You can escape the mundane selfies and touristy things that most people in groups do.

Shatabdi (aka bongexpress)

They live for social media stories and posts. Solo gives you a chance to sit quietly wherever you feel like it. You also talk to strangers and open up, which in a group is rare. I’m a photographer, so it gives me mental peace and time for my frames; people force me to take their pics in groups. Solo travels make you connect with nature and help you soak in and reflect deeper into life.”

And another solo traveler, Rakhi (aka rakhi_simmi), further quotes, 

“Solo travel is the best thing I could have done for myself.

It brought incredible benefits to my life and career. Whether learning something new, reflecting on your life goals, or seeing the places you’ve always wanted, travel is the most intense way of learning and can be transformational.

It is so powerful to know yourself better and step into the unknown. It makes you more confident and independent

 Rakhi (aka rakhi_simmi)

This fluid approach brings more flexibility and the space to take time out and reflect. Solo travel is an opportunity to do this – to take a step back, learn and develop – all while exploring the cultures and sights of this beautiful world we live in.”  

Women are given security reasons for not letting them travel alone. But when you learn to move ahead of the worry about safety, you will get the best experience.

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You Have More Control On The Itinerary

You Don’t Have To Deal With Annoying People

No Hidden Costs

In a nutshell

Solo travels can seem scary for the first time and then you will have found greater benefits at the end and trust me with this, you will see yourself in light that you have not done before. A new way of looking at yourself. A new way of appreciating who you truly are. 

You have no friend better than yourself.

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