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101 Inspiring Alone Quotes For Solo Travel

Are looking for some motivation or inspiration to take your first solo trip to see the wonders of the world?

Or like me, you also consider these ” alone quotes ” from a different perspective and consider the experience of your life as a solo traveller through your unique inner journey of travel, own thoughts and experience of life?

Or perhaps both?

Either way, whatever solo means to you the hardest part of any life-changing experience always begins with the first step.

So whether it’s a physical destination or a more introspective one these good quotes can point you in the right direction.

 

I hope you enjoy some of my favorite solo travel quotes:

 

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

#2. ‘Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.’ – Neale Donald Walsch

#3. ‘Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.’ – John Mayer

#4. “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

#5. ‘The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.’ – Paul Theroux

#6. ‘There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale 

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

#8. ‘A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes

#9. ‘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

#10. ‘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

#11. ‘To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.’ – Unknown

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

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

#14. “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

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

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

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

#18. “Walk your own path and be yourself.” – Joanne Nussbaum

#19. ‘Anything we fully do is an alone journey.’ — Natalie Goldberg

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

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

#22. “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

#23. “The beautiful thing about going alone is that every triumph is yours, every consequence of every mistake is yours, everything that you have to figure out is on you. That’s a really powerful experience. And sometimes it is beautiful and positive and exciting, and sometimes it’s negative and hard and lonely. I wanted that. I welcomed that.” —Cheryl Strayed

#24. ‘Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.’ –The Dhammapada

#25.  ‘Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.’ -Walt Whitman

#26. ‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.’- Helen Keller

#27. “It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning of the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between. This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.” – David Baldacci

#28. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless

#29. ‘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

#30. “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

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

#32. “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

#33. ‘I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.’ – Roman Payne

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

#35. ‘Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.’ -Walt Whitman

#36. ‘We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.’ – Anais Nin

#37. Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.’ – Paulo Coelho

#38. Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.’ – Mae West

#39. ‘Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.’ – Henry Rollins

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

#41. “When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.” – Gina Greenlee

#42. ‘When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.’ – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

#44. ‘A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

#46.  ‘As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.’ – Robin S. Sharma

 

 

 

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

#48. ‘My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.’ –Warsan Shire

#49. ‘The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.’ – Sir Richard Burton

#50. ‘I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.’ — Thomas Jefferson

#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. “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

#53. ‘I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.’ – Mary Anne Radmacher

#54. “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

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

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

#57. ‘Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.’ – Ken Poirot

#58. ‘There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale 

#59. ‘To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

#60. ‘The journey is the reward.’ — Chinese proverb

#61. ‘I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.’ — Daphne du Maurier

#62. ‘Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.’ – Dalai Lama

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

#64. You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.’ – Sue Fitzmaurice

#65. “Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.” – Ken Poirot

#66. “The more I travelled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

#67. ‘The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.’ ― Elizabeth Gilbert

#68.  ‘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 

#69. ‘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

#70. ‘Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.’ – Grace Lichtenstein

#71. ‘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 

#72. “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

#73. “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

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

#75. “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 are always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts

#76. ‘I am willing to put myself through anything. Temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.’ – Diana Nyad

#77. “Through travel, I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty 

#78. ‘I learned my strengths and weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between. I gained courage, and I learned it myself ‘ – Ann Stirk

#79. ‘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

#80. “For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.” — Pico Iyer

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

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

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

#84. ‘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

#85. It is better to see something once than to hear about hundred times. – Russian Proverb

#86. “I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.” – Alison Singh Gee

#87. “Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.” – David Cuschieri

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

#89. “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

#90. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr

#91. ‘The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.’ – Agnes Repplier

#92. “It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.” – Jewel E. Ann

#93. “The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux

#94.“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 Female Traveller Quotes

Although sometimes daunting the world has certainly opened up and more and more women get to be solo travelers – these female travel quotes are some of the best quotes to help women possibly go on their first trip alone and forget about the expectations of others.

 

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

#96. “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

#97. “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

#98. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

#99. “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

 #100. “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” – Dilma Rousseff

#101.  “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

 

 

Last Thoughts on these Inspirational Quotes For  Solo Travelers

So whether its the first time you will travel solo to the seeing of sights of the world or you resonate with the alone journey of life in general I hope you enjoyed this compilation of best solo travel quotes and they give you the courage to take the first step to enjoy the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows of life in general.

 

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