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140 Wonderful Road Trip Quotes for Your Next Adventure!

Are you looking for some cool and uplifting road trip quotes? You’ve come to the right place! Whether you’re looking for a fun road trip quote, a solo road trip quote, or a road trip quote from a movie, I’m sure you will find a suitable one in the list below! Here we go!

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Best Road trip quotes

road trip in Iceland

Road trip quotes: road trips in Iceland with a 4WD car

A road trip is a form of slow travel mostly undertaken by car, caravan or converted minivan. From a multi-week drive across different countries to a short getaway close to home, a road trip is all about the journey instead of the destination. 

While in general, a road trip means having your own vehicle to support you, essentially a road trip can be anything that encompasses some form of overland journey from one place to another, wether it’s a pilgrimage on foot, a backpacking trip in Asia taking long-distance busses, or hitchhiking across Europe.

There are so many inspiring road trip quotes and the list below is providing you with the best ones to spark your motivation to hit the road no matter what means of transport or purpose you got going on!

Enjoy the journey!

Short road trip quotes

Quotes about road trips: road trip in France

Road trip quotes: staying close to home on a road trip through France with our van

"Live your life by a compass, not a clock."

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - DDavid Mitchell

Short road trip quotes

My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”.

“All good things are wild and free.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Thoreau

Short road trip quotes

If you have never heard of Henry David Thoreau then you should definitely read his book “Walden“. 

While he did not exactly embark on a road trip, this book focuses on withdrawing in nature and living a simple life in natural surroundings. Be sure to take this book with you on your next road trip taken with a van or a tent to explore what nature has to offer! It will surely inspire you and change your view of the world. 

"And so the adventure begins."

“It’s not the destination, it's the journey.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Emerson

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“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.”

"Follow the yellow brick road."

"We do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Steinbeck

Short road trip quotes

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Robbins

Short road trip quotes

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

Unplanned road trip quotes

road trip quotes: road trip through Cambodia

An unplanned road trip through the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia in a jeep

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Blaunt

Unplanned road trip quotes

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

“And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Lord

Unplanned road trip quotes

“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.”

“The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away—to go, as he concluded, ‘anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Burton

“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands”

Unplanned road trip quotes

“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost”

Solo road trip quotes

solo road trip through Flores, Indonesia

Road trip quotes: beautiful scenery on a road trip through Flores, Indonesia.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.”

“Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Proust

Solo road trip quotes

“I may not have ended up where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”

“Solitary people make the best travellers”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Theroux

Solo road trip quotes

“Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.”

“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”

"All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Kerouac

Solo road trip quotes

“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”

Adventure road trip quotes

Road local bus Porto Viejo Cahuita Tortuguero Costa Rica

Road trip stop in Cahuita in Costa Rica: Hitchhiking is still one of the most adventurous ways to do a road trip 

“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. 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.”

"The ship is safest when it is in port, but that is not what ships were built for."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Coelho

Adventure road trip quotes

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

“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.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Anderson

Adventure road trip quotes

“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.”

“Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Emerson

Adventure road trip quotes

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Eliot

Adventure road trip quotes

"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."

“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Shanti

Adventure road trip quotes

“I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.”

“There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.”

“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”

“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Lyn

Adventure road trip quotes

"Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Frost

Adventure road trip quotes

"I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work."

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

Quotes about roads and journeys

Bali road trip Indonesia

From Munduk to the south, Bali is an excellent destination to do a road trip on a motorbike.

“The journey is my home.”

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Kerouac

Quotes about road trips

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware”

“Journeys are the midwives of thought."

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Thoreau

Quotes about road trips

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

"It feels good to be lost in the right direction."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Unknown

Quotes about road trips

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Kerouac

Quotes about road trips

“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”

Conscious road trip quotes

Fournes, Crete, Greece

Quotes about road trips: traveling consciously on a road trip in Greece.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. "

"When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story."

“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Eniath

Conscious road trip quotes

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us."

“A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.”

“That's why I love road trips, dude. It's like doing something without actually doing anything."

"Travel is the only thing we buy, that makes us richer."

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Unknown

Conscious quotes about road trips

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

“Not all who wander are lost.”

Road trip quotes for Instagram - Tolkien

Conscious road trip quotes

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

Road trip quotes - Nin

Conscious quotes about road trips

“A single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”

Road trip quotes - Payne

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. 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”

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.”

Quote Homer on road trips

Conscious quotes about road trips

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

“For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.”

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"Better to travel than to arrive."

"Drifting on the road is my favorite mood."

"My real home is on the road."

quotes about road trips: my real home is on the road.

"Going where the streets have no name."

"Putting a little gravel in my travel."

"Happiness is a road trip and good music."

Quotes about road trips

"There are no wrong turns on a road trip."

“The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.”

"Making memories one road trip at a time."

Road trip quotes from song lyrics

conscious road trips

Good music is essential on a road trip.

"You used to say the highway was your home, but we both know that ain't true, it's just the only place a man can go, when he don't know where he's travelin' to."

Riding with the van through the wide land, where the sunflowers are making their stand, there’s nothing I miss, it won’t get any better than this.

Road trip quotes - Humberstone

"They call me the breeze, I keep blowing down the road, I ain't got me nobody, I ain't carrying me no load."

Road trip quotes - JJ Cale

Road trip quotes from song lyrics

"Well, I'm so tired of crying, but I'm out on the road again, I'm on the road again, I ain't got no woman, just to call my special friend."

"Living a different kind of life on a different kind of street, having a different kind of drive with a different kind of speed, and it looks like a big mess, but it’s a work in progress, fighting the big fight, trying to hold on tight, I got a long road ahead, no way I make it home tonight."

"I drove all night to get to you."

Road trip quotes - Lauper

Road trip quotes from song lyrics

"I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man, he said he's been down this road more than twice, he was high on intellectualism, I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice. Jump in, let's go, lay back, enjoy the show, everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes, everyday is a winding road."

"On the road again. Goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again. And I can't wait to get on the road again."

Road trip quotes - Nelson

Road trip quotes from song lyrics

"Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel, yeah, we're goin' to the Roadhouse, we're gonna have a real good time.

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."

Road trip quotes - Harrison

Road trip quotes from song lyrics

“Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies, fully loaded we got snacks and supplies. It’s time to leave this town it’s time to steal away. Let’s go get lost anywhere in the U.S.A.”

Road trip movie quotes

beaches in Pelion: Damouchari Beach

road trips in Greece: Passing by Damouchari where scenes for the movie “Mamma Mia” were shot.

"When I get home, I shall write a book about this place...If I ever do get home."

“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.”

Road trip quotes - Thelma and Louise

road trip movie quotes

“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”

“Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.”

“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.”

Road trip quotes - Wild

road trip movie quotes

"Maybe we could be friends, and buddies, and bro dogs, and hang, and chill."

"The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there."

Road trip quotes - The Hobbit

road trip movie quotes

“You know, it's funny... you come to someplace new, an'... and everything looks just the same.”

Road trip quotes with friends

road trip quotes: road trip in Montenegro

Road trip with friends quotes: taking a road trip through Montenegro with friends is an amazing experience

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared.”

Road trip quotes - Into the wild

Road trips quotes with friends

“Good friends follow you anywhere."

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

Road trip quotes - Hemingway

Road trip quotes with friends

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”

Road trip quotes - Cahill

Road trip quotes with friends

“No road is long with good company.”

Family road trip quotes

Family road trip in Croatia

Road trip quotes: bonding with family on a road trip through Croatia.

“Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.”

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

Road trip quotes - Hunt

Family road trip quotes

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

Road trip quotes - Burns

Family road trip quotes

“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”

“We must take care of our families, wherever we find them.”

Long drive quotes

road trips in America

Best road trip quotes: America is a great road trip destination.

“The road goes on forever and the party never ends.”

“A long drive to nowhere is the best way to clear the mind.”

Road trip quotes - Roxanne

Car travel quotes

“I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.”

"Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music."

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”

Road trip quotes - De botton

Long drive quotes

“There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

Drifting on the road is my favorite mood.

Road trip quotes - Unknown

Long road quotes

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.”

"Road trip hair, don’t care."

Love road trip quotes

Going on a road trip with your partner at lac de l'eau d'heure, Belgium

A short road trip through Belgium with my love and our old van.

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.”

Road trip quotes - Brault

Love road trips quotes

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.”

“No road is long with good company.”

Funny road trip quotes

Road trip Cardamom mountains in Cambodia

Road trip quotes: when your car breaks down in the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia.

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

“We all have that one friend who is either on a roadtrip or planning a roadtrip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a roadtrip or posting quotes about a roadtrip.”

“Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Dirty.”

Road trip quotes - Muir

Road trip nature quotes

"according to the map, we've only gone four inches."

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.”

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.”

Road trip quotes - Baggett

Funny quotes about road trips

“Hodophile (noun): a lover of roads; one who loves travel.”

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”

Road trip quotes: Final thoughts

Road trip through Crete, Greece

Quotes about road trips: A road trip in Crete, Greece is pure bliss.

There you go! I hope you enjoyed this extensive list of road trip quotes. Road trips aren’t only about withdrawing in nature or taking a vehicle and starting driving but can change your view of the world. All people should take at least one road trip during their life.

Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions or drop me a message through my contact page

Also, don’t forget to check out my resources page with my favorite booking platforms and tips to start planning your trip. Additionally, have a look at my favorite travel gear if you want to pack more consciously!

Happy road tripping!

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