Travel & Adventure: Wanderlust Quotes

Embrace the spirit of wanderlust with a curated collection of quotes that celebrate curiosity, open roads, and faraway horizons. From timeless lines to fresh voices, these words distill the joy of setting out and the calm of finding your place in the world. Use them for trip planning motivation, journal entries, social captions, or quiet reflection before your next departure. Whether you crave mountain trails, coastal drives, or cultural discoveries, you will find concise sparks and reflective passages to guide your travels.

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"I love to travel, but hate to arrive"

Hernando Cortez, Explorer

"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning"

Giotto di Bondone, Artist

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"A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places"

Isabelle Eberhardt, Explorer

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"I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns"

Ernest Shackleton, Explorer

"The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists"

Sam Ewing, Author

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"Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

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"Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around"

Reba McEntire, Musician

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"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

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"Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

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"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"I could never resist the call of the trail"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time"

Meryl Streep, Actress

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"The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days"

Alan Cranston, Politician

"I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

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"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe"

Anatole France, Novelist

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

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"Paris is always a good idea"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls"

Anais Nin, Author

"Not all who wander are lost"

J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence"

George Byron, Poet

"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go"

Layne Staley, Musician

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"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow"

Richard Burton, Actor

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"No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit"

David Attenborough, Journalist

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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel"

David Attenborough, Journalist

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"I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick"

Magnus Carlsen

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"When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be"

Harry Chapin, Musician

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"As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going"

Sean Connery, Actor

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"My favourite thing is to go where I've never been"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

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"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future"

Mary Cassatt, Artist

"What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?"

Anna Neagle, Actress

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