The best road trip quotes fuel the imagination and drive the quest for knowledge. Or, you know, make for a great road trip instagram caption or quotation to combine with a gift for someone about to go travelling. From inspirational road trip quotes to funny road trip quotes, we have you covered.
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The Best Road Trip Quotes
“The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normalpeople with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’texist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark,godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days runtogether like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. Younever really know where you are or what time it is, and the outsideworld starts to fade away.It’s cool.”― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star
Serendipity (Making Getting Lost Sound Cool)
“And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere”― Emery Lord, Open Road Summer
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”― Erol Ozan
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount
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“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown
Family Road Trip Quotes
“Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone” – Unknown
“Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
Get Your Stuff Together Road Trip Quotes
“Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri
“I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” – Corinne Hofmann
Carpe Diem Road Trip Quotes
“Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.” – Jon Bon Jovi
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S Eliot
“Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
Classic Road Trip Quotes
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
And another one from Mr K…
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
My Favourite Road Trip Quotes
“If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen
“Still, round the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“ The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen
“I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho
Inspiring Road Trip Quotes
“Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett
“Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common.” – Deborah Lloyd
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” Babs Hoffman.
Funny Road Trip Quotes
“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.” – Charles de Lint
“That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“Roads. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
– Back to the Future
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