Setting out on a road trip is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and fun things one can do. Because of this, I have rounded up some of the best road trip quotes and sayings! 🚙
Below, you will find a wide range of quotes about road tripping that are sure to ignite some adventure, thrill, and motivation to hit the road on your own travels.
Side note: If I have missed any must-have quotes about road trips, please share them below and I will include them in future updates! 😃
63+ Advernterous Road Trip Quotes
1. “Take the long way home.” – Proverb
2. “No road is long with good company.” – Unknown
3. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
4. “Making memories one road trip at a time.” – Proverb
5. “I wish that road trips could pay my bills.” – Unknown
6. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Proverb
7. “Happiness is a road trip with a good playlist.” – Unknown
8. “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.” – Proverb
9. “Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” – Confucius
10. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
11. “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright
12. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” – Emery Lord
13. “A foot and light-hearted I take to the open road.” – Walt Whitman
14. “The road must eventually lead to the whole world.” – Jack Kerouac
15. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.” – Proverb
16. “Roads are a record of those who have gone before.” – Rebecca Solnit
17. “My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been.” –Â Diane Arbus
18. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.” – Lukhman Pambra
19. “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen
20. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
21. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
22. “I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman
23. “Road Trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown
24. “All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
25. “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – Jerry Seinfeld
26. “Road trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown
27. “Sometimes all you need is a good friend and a full tank of gas.” – Proverb
28. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, its who you have beside you.” – Unknown
29. “I get emotionally attached to the cars ahead of me on long road trips.” – Proverb
30. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
31. “Still, around the corner, there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
21. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
22. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin
23. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac
24. “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
25. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” – Susan Magsamen
26. “The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey
27. “Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.” – Unknown
28. “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” – Amit Kalantri
29. “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen
30. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous, and absolutely liberating.” – Aaron Lauritsen
31. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount
32. “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm, throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews
33. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green
34. “The best part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination … it’s fast food along the way.” – Unknown
35. “The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” – William Least Heat Moon
36. “You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” – Steve Rushin
37. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
38. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
40. “Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.” – Anthony Joshua
41. “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho
42. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley
43. “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
44. “You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” – William Hazlitt
45. “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
46. “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
47. “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
48. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.” – Unknown
49. “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
50. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
51. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld
52. “When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much which road you take, as to how you take it.” – Charles de Lint
53. “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
54. “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
55. “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
56. “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
57. “Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes, and directions.” – Jenn McKinlay
58. “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
59. “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
60. “Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
61. “We all have that one friend who is either on a road trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.” – Crestless Wave
Conclusion
Hopefully, this list of road trip quotes has given you the inspiration you need to start planning your next adventure. To learn more about road trips, here is a list of the best road trip routes and destinations in the world.