Top 97 Quotes About Travel Alone
#1. Each of us knew that the journey to exaltation would be long, strenuous, and sometimes lonely, but we also knew that we would not travel alone. Heavenly Father provides all who fulfill the prerequisites of faith, repentance, and baptism with a companion and guide, the Holy Ghost.
Keith K. Hilbig
#2. Don't travel alone ... meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher
Lambert Of Maastricht
#3. If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.
John C. Maxwell
#4. Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.
Paul Theroux
#5. I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.
Esha Gupta
#7. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)
Thomas Jefferson
#8. As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, applying for every research grant and overseas gig I hear of, then trying to extend those trips as far as the stipends will go. I love to travel alone.
Molly Antopol
#9. If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
Simon Van Booy
#10. Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
Bob Dylan
#11. I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
Maria Mitchell
#12. To travel alone is risky business, especially into a wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them.
Robert F. Perkins
#13. It might be better if we travel alone today,
Erin Hunter
#14. If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.
Gautama Buddha
#15. When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.
John Patrick Shanley
#16. When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can be your true self. Every morning you are liberated to create your identity as you truly want it to be.
Sean Michael Hayes
#17. Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.
Henry Van Dyke
#18. The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, Why, it is life.
Emily Hahn
#19. Any man who was a man could travel alone.
Jack London
#20. Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fears, and dangers. With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not travel alone on the Path.
Rumi
#21. If you want to travel fast, travel alone; if you want to travel far, travel together.
Lois J. Zachary
#22. The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.
Andrew O'Hagan
#23. In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone
C.S. Woolley
#24. When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be as free as possible to be spontaneous. You also need to be lonely, because loneliness is a great teacher, too.
Paul Theroux
#25. For everyone who never smiled in school
photos, for all who've wandered city streets
not knowing the where they were
or feeling alone, I've packed kindness.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#26. Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile 'cigarette and sweets' stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.
Jennifer S. Alderson
#27. Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.
Otis Redding
#28. Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side
KT Tunstall
#29. I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.
Ma Jian
#30. You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
Ben Okri
#31. Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.
Joseph Fort Newton
#32. I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.
Alice Steinbach
#33. Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.
Ken Poirot
#34. Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
Zora Neale Hurston
#35. This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.
Rebecca Solnit
#36. When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.
Sean Mackin
#38. Who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,
Allen Ginsberg
#39. When I travel, people say 'Yet another place in this world'. But I see 'Another world inside every place I go
Vivek Thangaswamy
#40. I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#41. Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.
H.G.Wells
#42. Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
Eric Hoffer
#43. Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.
Herman Melville
#44. 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
#46. 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
#48. You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.
Erol Ozan
#49. When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.
Courtney Barnett
#50. I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)
Bret Easton Ellis
#51. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
Joseph Campbell
#52. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Thomas Jefferson
#53. I'd learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I'd learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.
Gerry Abbey
#54. Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.
Catullus
#55. To the traditional traveller - let alone travel writer - this might seem absurd. The whole point of travel is to go deep. To spend time in a place, to get under its skin. How can one possibly appreciate what makes a city or a country tick in a bare ten hours
Hugh Thomson
#56. Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.
Paul Theroux
#57. Too many people try to assuage pain that can never be eradicated. All you can do is salute the grief, acknowledge that you carry it, too, and that even though we all travel that path alone, we are not alone in traveling it.
M.J. Rose
#58. I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.
Kate Klise
#59. Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.
Paul Theroux
#60. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.
Rebecca Solnit
#61. What an idiot Santa is for flying around alone. Because who would want to travel the world without another person's heartbeat beside him?
Rachel Cohn
#62. In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
Paul Theroux
#63. I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck's cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop.
Jennifer S. Alderson
#64. I don't understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
Charles Bukowski
#65. 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
#66. I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name ...
Robert Galbraith
#67. Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#68. When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.
Hannah Harding
#70. We travel not for trafficking alone;
By hotter winds our hearts are fanned:
For lust of knowing what should not be known
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
James Elroy Flecker
#71. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.
Garance Dore
#72. You are charismatic. Men are drawn to you. I am drawn to you. And by your size, let alone your skill with weapons, they will be in awe of you.
Amy Jarecki
#73. Finding a partner who understands the vicissitudes of travel is challenging. A nomadic life fosters inconsistencies and contradictions within you - a vacillation between loneliness and needing desperately to be left alone.
Carrie Brownstein
#74. You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
No wisdom is better than this when known:
That every hard thing is done alone.
Hermann Hesse
#76. And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.
Aspen Matis
#77. It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for
space has no before, after, or now,
Arthur Schopenhauer
#78. I get a friend to travel with me ... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#79. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings
#80. For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat - hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone).
Albert Camus
#81. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.
Joseph Campbell
#82. So long as road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!
Ayn Rand
#83. Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.
Hank Wesselman
#84. I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.
Lyall Watson
#85. want to travel far ? take a companion along . but , want to travel fast ? better walk alone......
Shreya
#86. We're born alone and we die alone, but we get to travel with people along the way, and if you get lucky, you have a worthy consort.
Emma Forrest
#87. Rule #1 of Traveling-
Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?
Sanhita Baruah
#88. Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia
Cylin Busby
#89. What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can't let you do that. I ... I forbid you. It was Colin's first attempt at forbidding anyone to do anything, and it worked about as well as he'd expected it to. Which was to say, not at all.
Tessa Dare
#90. Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
John Muir
#91. If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.
Gautama Buddha
#92. there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.
AVA.
#93. Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.
George Leigh Mallory
#94. In these pages, traveling "solo" does not necessarily mean "alone." The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo" by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.
Gina Greenlee
#95. Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
Gautama Buddha
#96. Travel, travel often, and travel more. Travel is the best way to appreciate your life.
Abhishek Kumar
#97. They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
