Normally, I start each blog post with a favored, relevant quote. Since this post is made up of road trip quotes, I’m going to change the format a little bit.
A couple of these quotes are ones I’ve heard/read for years from other travelers, and they just really stuck with me. However, I know I’m providing quotes never shared in the travel space before, but they all come from writers that mean a great deal to me and have influenced my life in some way. Please enjoy this fantastic list of Best and Unique Road Trip Quotes as much as I do.
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Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
1 – Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. – Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
2 – Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Smalltown America
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there’s a sentence you don’t want to say too often if you can possibly help it.
3 – I was heading to Nebraska. Now there’s a sentence you don’t want to say too often if you can possibly help it. – Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Smalltown America
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
4 – Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
William Least Heat Moon
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
5 – The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. – William Least Heat Moon
Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
6 – Roads are a record of those who have gone before. – Rebecaa Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.
7 – He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough. – Neil Gaiman, American Gods
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
On the road, where change is continuous and visible, time is not; rather it is something the rider only infers. Time is not the traveler’s fourth dimension – change is.
8 – On the road, where change is continuous and visible, time is not; rather it is something the rider only infers. Time is not the traveler’s fourth dimension – change is. – William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees In The Milky way.
9 – Standing among all those tiny, wavering lights, I felt as though I were God, up to my knees in the Milky Way. – Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.
10 – I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off. – Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Catherynne M. Valente The girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
11 – When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on. – Catherynne M. Valente The girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making
Jack Kerouac
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
12 – The road must eventually lead to the whole world. – Jack Kerouac
William Least Heat Moon Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
A rule of the blue road: be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find.
13 – A rule of the blue road: be careful going in search of adventure – it’s ridiculously easy to find. – William Least Heat Moon Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
Afghan Proverb
The world is the traveler’s inn.
14 – The world is the traveler’s inn. – Afghan Proverb
Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don’t realize I have someplace to be.
15 – The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don’t realize I have someplace to be. – Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Anthony Bourdain
I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find a perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.
16 – I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find a perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary. – Anthony Bourdain
Jack Kerouac
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
17 – Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac
As the road trip life continues, I will always add more to this list of Best and Unique Road Trip Quotes. What’s one of your favorite road trip quotes?
Never Miss An Adventure.
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