Life is a road and i want to keep going

There are few experiences quite like taking a long road trip and venturing somewhere you’ve never been before! It’s one of the few forms of travel where it’s all about the journey: the people, the stories, those moments which are hard to describe to someone who wasn’t there.

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Short Road Trip Quotes
1 - “It’s not the destination, it's the journey.”
2 - “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”
3 - “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.”
4 - “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.”
5 - “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
6 - “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”
7 - “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
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8 - “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
9 - “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.”
Tom Lichtenheld
10 - “I may not have ended up where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
11 - “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.”
12 - “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”
13. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.”
14 - “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
15 - “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.”
16 - “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.”
17 - “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
Inspirational Road Trip Quotes
18 - “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”
19 - “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.”
20 - “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.”
21 - “I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.”
22 - “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.”
23 - “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.”
24 - “Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.”
25 - “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.”
26 - “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to make.”
27 - “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
28 - “You Can’t Find The Right Roads When The Streets Are Paved.”
29 - “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”
30 - “I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.”
31 - “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
32 - “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
33 - “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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34 - “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating”
35 - “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.”
36 - “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.”
37 - “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.”
Quotes on a long drive
38 - “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”
39 - “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.”
40 - “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.”
41 - “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
42 - “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”
43 - “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.”
44 - “Once you have traveled, 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.”
45 - “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.”
46 - “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”
47 - “Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”
48 - “I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.”
Road Trip Captions
49 - “I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.”
50 - “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”
51 - “Road trips require a couple of things: a well balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar, and an excellent set of tunes - oh, and directions.”
52 - “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move”
53 - “Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”
54 - “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.”
55 - “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.”
56 - “My favourite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”.
57 - “Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Dirty.”
58 - “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.”
Beautiful Road Trip Quotes
59 - “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, any one. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and the stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit.
Then we’ll turn it into our own story, that will live inside our history to carry with us. Always.
Because stories are more important than things.”
60 - “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.”
61 - “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.”
62 - “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”
63 - “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.”
64 - “When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.”
65 - “Nothing Behind Me, Everything Ahead Of Me, As Is Ever So On The Road.”
66 - “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.”
67 - “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.”
68 - “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.”
Funny Road Trip Quotes
69 - “Kilometres are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometres.”
70 - “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
71 - “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.”
72 - “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.”
73 - “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.”
74 - “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”
75 - “Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.”
76 - “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”
Road Trip With Friends Quotes
77 - “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”
78 - “A journey is measured in friends, rather than miles.”
79 - “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”
80 - “No road is long with good company.”
81 - “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
82 - “In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.”
83 - “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.”
84 - “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
85 - “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.”
86 - “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.”
87 - “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.”
88 - “The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.”
89 - “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.”
90 - “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”
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Inspirational Quotes

We’ve put together over 90 of the best road trip quotes to help really convey what is it that makes this form of slow travel so special. We’ve also included a few funny ones and some that encapsulate what it’s like to take a road trip with a group of friends.

So here are our favourite road trip quotes. Feel free to let us know your favourite ones in the comments below!

Short Road Trip Quotes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 - “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”

Jack Kerouac

3 - “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.”

Confucius

4 - “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.”

Tom Wolfe

5 - “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

John Steinbeck

6 - “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”

Amit Kalantri

7 - “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”

Rebecca Solnit

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8 - “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

Izaak Walton

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

Tom Lichtenheld

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

Douglas Adams

11 - “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

12 - “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”

William Least Heat Moon

13. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.”

Lukhman Pambra

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

Lewis Carroll

15 - “Look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.”

Tom Stoppard

16 - “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.”

-Edgar Wright

17 - “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”

William Hazlitt

Inspirational Road Trip Quotes

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

Tony Robbins

19 - “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.”

Anthony Joshua

20 - “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.”

Brad Paisley

21 - “I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.”

Walt Whitman

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

Byrd Baggett

23 - “A bend in the road, is not the end of the road….unless you fail to make the turn.”

Helen Keller

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25 - “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.”

Chris Humphrey

26 - “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to make.”

Angela N Blount

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

Erol Ozan

28 - “You Can’t Find The Right Roads When The Streets Are Paved.”

Bob Marley

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

Sir Richard Burton

30 - “I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.”

Daya

31 - “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Scott Myers

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

T.S Eliot

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

Marcel Proust

Road trip quotes with love

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

Aaron Lauritsen

35 - “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.”

John Steinbeck

36 - “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.”

Debi Tolbert Duggar

37 - “She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.”

Jodi Hills

Quotes on a long drive

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

Stacy Westfall

39 - “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.”

Rosalia De Castro

40 - “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.”

Grace Jones

41 - “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”

Isak Dinesen

42 - “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

43 - “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

44 - “Once you have traveled, 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

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

Susan Magsamen

46 - “Map out your future – but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.”

Bon Jovi

47 - “Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”

Elizabeth Berg

48 - “I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.”

Caleb Johnson

Road Trip Captions

49 - “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

50 - “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”

Babs Hoffman

51 - “Road trips require a couple of things: a well balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar, and an excellent set of tunes - oh, and directions.”

Jenn McKinlay

52 - “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move”

Robert Louis Stevenson

53 - “Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Robert Frost

55 - “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.”

Henry Miller

56 - “My favourite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”.

Diane Arbus

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

John Muir

58 - “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.”

Romesh Gunesekera

Beautiful Road Trip Quotes

59 - “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, any one. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and the stories, feel the ground, and capture the spirit.

Then we’ll turn it into our own story, that will live inside our history to carry with us. Always.

Because stories are more important than things.”

Victoria Erickson

60 - “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.”

Freya Stark

61 - “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.”

Miriam Toews

62 - “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

63 - “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.”

Hans Christian Andersen

64 - “When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.”

Steve Rushin

65 - “Nothing Behind Me, Everything Ahead Of Me, As Is Ever So On The Road.”

Jack Kerouac

66 - “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.”

Paulo Coelho

67 - “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.”

William Least Heat Moon

68 - “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.”

Anthony Bourdain

Funny Road Trip Quotes

69 - “Kilometres are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometres.”

George Carlin

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

John Steinbeck

71 - “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.”

John Perry Barlow

72 - “In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.”

Bill Engvall

73 - “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.”

Crestless Wave

74 - “A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”

Emile Ganest

75 - “Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason.”

Jerry Seinfeld

76 - “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.”

John Green

Road Trip With Friends Quotes

77 - “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

Izaak Walton

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

Tim Chaill

79 - “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.”

Edith Wharton

80 - “No road is long with good company.”

Turkish proverb

81 - “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

82 - “In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.”

Charles M. Schulz

83 - “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.”

Mark Twain

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

Ernest Hemingway

85 - “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.”

Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Thelma and Louise

87 - “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.”

Kristen Sarah

88 - “The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.”

Kari Martindale

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

Robert Earl Keen

90 - “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”

Wilfred Peterson

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