Quotes About Traveling Alone

#1. I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.

Iyanla Vanzant

#2. I envision a world filled with women traveling alone and meeting each other on the path.

SARK

#3. One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you.

Roger Zelazny

#4. Traveling with a man is traveling alone.

Zoe Valdes

#5. I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Philip Schultz

#6. In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

F. Sionil Jose

#7. Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

Andrew O'Hagan

#8. I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?

Jason Isbell

#9. My life on earth is personal journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

Philip Zimbardo

#11. Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

Ken Poirot

#12. I guess I'm too selfish to travel well with other people, I told Anne later.

Alice Steinbach

#13. It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

David Hewson

#14. I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

Eydie Gorme

#15. 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

#16. If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

Olafur Eliasson

#17. 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

#18. This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

Jeff VanderMeer

#19. Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I'm traveling with.

Tia Mowry

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Erol Ozan

#23. Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

John Mayer

#24. Define your path and travel on this path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. 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

#26. 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.

#27. 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

#28. When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

Rita Gelman

#29. The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

Donna Tartt

#30. 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

#31. When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. When I travel, people say 'Yet another place in this world'. But I see 'Another world inside every place I go

Vivek Thangaswamy

#36. Another one of the line-item vetoes in the "never drink alone" rule book is that you're allowed to drink alone while traveling. Who else could possibly join you? I loved drinking alone in distant bars, staying on speaking terms with my own solitude.

Sarah Hepola

#37. It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

Jenny Holzer

#38. Rule #1 of Traveling-
Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

Sanhita Baruah

#39. The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.

Peter Menzel

#40. Bikinis? Check. Sunscreen? Check. Dildo? Probably won't need it.

Felicia Ferraro

#41. I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Eva Gabor

#42. I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

Lailah Gifty Akita