Quotes to inspire your wanderlust

You can take the kid out of the dirt, but you can’t take the dirt out of the kid. Drinking forties by the train tracks in Maryland, USA.

It’s true writers and artists can express what we feel in ways we couldn’t ourselves. It’s wonderful reading passages of a book or listening to a favourite song and the words instantly resonate. Below are some of my favourite travel quotes to inspire your wanderlust. 

And in my dreams, I am dirty broke, beautiful, and free
My hand’s clenched in a fist, and my face in a smile, after hitching too many miles… – Johnny Hobo, New Mexico Song

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

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Kerouac

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Kerouac

And oh, Odea, I will bid you farewell if you oblige
But I will never say goodbye
I’ll see you on down the line – Lost Dog Street Band, Odea

Buy the ticket, take the ride. – Hunter S. Thompson

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? – Thompson

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” – Thompson

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. – William S. Burroughs

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. – Charles Bukowski

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost… – J.R.R. Tolkien

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert

Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is. – Charles Bukowski

If you feel like another dose of wanderlust, Wonderful hitchhiking moments will have you inspired for your next adventure.