Solo Exploration Quotes

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

I've been on my own and traveling for years now.

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone. When I'm alone I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

I like to travel by myself.

Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.

Women alone stir my imagination.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.