35 Solo Traveling Quotes That Will Inspire You to Travel Alone - Traveling Twilley (2024)

Solo Traveling Quotes to Inspire You to Embark on a Solo Adventure

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

2) “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

3) “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

4) “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

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

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

7) “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.” –H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (P.S. I Love You)

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

Solo Traveling Quotes on Not Waiting for a Travel Buddy

9) “Never wait for someone to travel with. Book the ticket, take the flight, and go alone.” –Unknown

10) “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.” –Henry David Thoreau

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

12) “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” –Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Quotes About the Transformative Power of Solo Travel

15) “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations. You’ll discoverjust how strong you are….” –Suzy Strutner

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

17) “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” –Rumi

18) “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

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

20) “Travel can be an important return to something you’ve loved before—a way to reclaim a piece of who you are.” –Megan Spurrell

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

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

Quotes About the Benefits of Traveling Solo

23) “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

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

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

26) “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” –Ken Poirot

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

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

29) “Traveling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.” –Mark Foster

Solo Traveling Quotes to Combat Loneliness While Traveling Alone

30) “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

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

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

Solo Female Travel Quotes

33) “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.” –Alan Ashley-Pitt

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

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

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