55 Travel Quotes for Dreamers, Jetsetters & Storytellers

(With airport humour, unforgettable places and unforgettable moments)

Beyond the selfies and city guides, travel is a deeply personal act. It changes us, breaks routines and challenges perspectives. These travel quotes dive into the inner journey. The part that starts when the plane lands but stays long after we’ve unpacked.

Also don’t miss the champagne quotes for life’s toasts and travels. The type of pairing you need for your globetrotting dreams.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, as pretty as an airport.

Douglas Adams

Currently, this one divides the camp. Cancelled flights, left luggage...

Then I remembered Hamad International Airport, Doha and Heydar Aliyev International Airport, Baku and Changi International Airport, Singapore. And surmised, Mr Adams must have been standing in one of those when he said this. What do you think?

Heydar Aliyev International Airport - 2015

Witty & Funny Travel Quotes (Especially for Airports)

Airports! The great levellers. At once glamorous and chaotic, they serve as the unofficial prequel to every trip. And if there’s one thing seasoned travellers know, it’s this: no one leaves an airport without a story. Like this one: Honey, I missed my flight — a true tale of misadventures, missteps and the miracle of making it anyway. These quotes capture the humour, absurdity and delightful unpredictability of life between terminals.

1. Me Travelling. Person: Un cafe? Me: Oui. Person: Sucre? Me: Non. Person: You speak very good french. Me: Gracias. ― Anonymous

2. Worrying you've accidentally packed 3 kilos of cocaine and an animal carcass as you walk through 'nothing to declare' at the airport. ― Anonymous

3. The airport is a lawless place. 7 am? Drink a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost $17. ― Alyssa Limperi

   
   

The Phone Box, Dickenson Beach, Antigua - 2020

And below are quotes by those who enjoyed nothing more than penning their thoughts and emotions.

Quotes From the pens of WRITERS and STORYTELLERS: Travel as a Muse

Writers have always roamed not just to escape but to observe, collect and transform places into prose. A Parisian café, the swirl of a bazaar or the sheer wonder of not knowing what’s next, travel has a way of sharpening the senses and loosening the pen.

1. Travelling, it leaves you speechless then turns you into a storyteller. ― Ibn Battuta

2. People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I've been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it's the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain… or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris. ― Roman Payne

3. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ― Lao Tzu

4. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ― Anita Desai

5. Travel brings power and love back into your life. ― Rumi Jalalud-Din

6. But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. ― Bill Bryson

7. I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ― Mary Anne Radmacher

8. 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

Inspirational Travel Quotes for Wanderlust

1. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. ― John Green

2. The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire. ― Robert W. Service

3. The dance of the palm trees, the ocean's calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. ― Michael Dolan

Quotes Inspired by Iconic DESTINATIONS

Certain cities leave their mark not just on maps, but on minds. Paris, a good example. Vietnam, with its layered beauty. These quotes are inspired by real places. The kind that seep into your bones and change how you see the world. If you’ve ever fallen for a destination, you’ll feel right at home here.

London from St Pauls Cathedral - 2019

1. London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess.  ― James Geary

2. Mexico - a mosaic of different realities and beauties. ― Enrique Pena Nieto

3. It takes a lifetime to discover Greece, but it only takes an instant to fall in love with her. ― Henry Miller

4. Paris is always a good idea! ― Audrey Hepburn

5. Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. ― Giotto di Bondone

The Grand Canal, Venice - 2016

1. Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. ― Frida Giannini

2. Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. ― Frances Burney

Duomo di Milano - 2017

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. ― Frances Burney

Jumeirah Emirates Towers - 2015 or earlier

You might see me in the village. You might see me in Dubai. – J Hus

Dumbo New York - 2016

1. If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. ― Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

2. No matter how many times I visit NYC, I am always struck by the same thing – a yellow taxicab.

Soufriere Volcano, Montserrat - Circa 199

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott

Halong Bay, Vietnam - 2014

I can’t say what made me fall in love with Vietnam – that a woman’s voice can drug you; that everything is so intense. The colours, the taste, even the rain. ― Frances Burney

Travel Quotes to Make you Laugh

For every sunset on a Caribbean beach, there’s a tangled train schedule or a mysterious item in your suitcase you swear you didn’t pack. These quotes are for the realists; the travellers who know that the best journeys are full of detours, delays and a sense of humour.

1. Plane tickets are the answer. Who cares what the question is? – Anonymous

2. There's nothing safer than flying, it's the crashing that's dangerous. ― Theo Cowa

3. Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.  ― Jerry Seinfeld

4. I suspect that La Guardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about. – Dave Barry

5. Like all great travellers, said Essper, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ― Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli

Flying over Miami - 2021

Which One's Your Motto?

Do any of these quotes speak to your soul, spark a memory or match your travel mantra? Drop your favourite quote in the comments or tag us in your next getaway pic using it!

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