The word ‘wanderlust’ has become increasingly popular. And it is a very popular hashtag on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The number of travel bloggers in the world is rising at a rapid pace, as the persistent idea of wanderlust is made more accessible by social media platforms and the internet which gives us access to bigger worlds.

The inability to travel and indulge our wanderlust caused by the coronavirus pandemic has only fuelled the use of the word ‘wanderlust’. Travel and wanderlust are fuelled not just by a desire to see more of the world but also to learn more about other cultures and languages, grow more sensitive to the world and know something we cannot learn from books or the internet.

Wanderlust is not just a trending hashtag, but a way of life. It is a way of broadening our understanding of the world, and expanding our horizons. Through travel, and the idea of wanderlust, we learn to shed our prejudices and realise that we are only small parts in the universe. Travel inspires us to take things lightly, and makes us realise what really is important in life- a curiosity to know more and the desire to act on it.

As one sits at home and only dream of travel, reading travel narratives, novels and quotes becomes a wonderful way to imagine a time when one can travel again and explore our vast, beautiful world. Until we can travel again, here are a few quotes that you can use for your Instagram captions for posting throwbacks, and in anticipation of the photos that you will post after your wanderlust is quenched after travelling.

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The short quotes will ensure that you trend on social media, not just because they sound interesting but also because they carry deeper meaning and insight. These quotes will also fuel your wanderlust, ensuring that you are ready to explore the world and travel to the fullest as soon as possible.

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go…”- Danielle Steel

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

“By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.” — Tawny Lara

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”― Paul Theroux

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

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” — J.K. Rowling

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.  – St. Augustine

“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bordain

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..”― Paul Theroux

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware”.  – Martin Buber

Best Travel Quotes

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

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but nature more.” – Lord Byron

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment”. – Hilaire Belloc

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

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

“Forget champagne and caviar – taste the world instead!”

“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.” ― Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet’s hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home. ” ― Paul Theroux

Inspirational Wanderlust Travel Quotes

“The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party’s extension, being kept waiting all your working life – the homebound writer’s irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.”― Paul Theroux

“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

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

“Still, ‘round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment”. – Hilaire Belloc

“The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

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

“It doesn’t matter where you go. You’ll discover new things, and appreciate making the decision to get out into the world.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you’ve travelled.” – Mohammed