Best Road Trip Quotes For Your Next Adventure

Here’s a list of our favorite road trip quotes to inspire your next adventure. They’re organized into different categories including Adventure, Inspiration, Humor, Family, Friends, Love, and even Song Lyrics. So grab some good snacks and sing-along-tunes and enjoy the open road this summer season.

100 Of The Best Road Trip Quotes

Going on a road trip brings about the best feeling. A car packed, music on loud, and an open road ahead, it’s the perfect choose-your-own-adventure kind of trip.

The longest road trip we’ve ever been on was 3,000 miles coast-to-coast across the United States. That’s how we new we’d get married, we took a long road trip with me giving Pete directions and we didn’t kill each other. 

Since then, enjoyed smaller road trips including one around  Nova Scotia, a drive through Alberta and Banff, and even a coast-to-coast drive across Florida to watch the sunrise and sunset on the beach in the same day. We also have our friend Abi’s list of road trips in Spain we’d love to take!

I hope this list of our favorite road trip quotes help inspire your next adventure!

Quotes To Start Your Road Trip Adventure

1. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere” ― Emery Lord

2. “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

3. “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

4. “Road trips are the equivalent of human wings. Ask me to go on one, anywhere. We’ll stop in every small town and learn the history and 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

5. “It’s a road trip! It’s about adventure! . . . It’s not like we have somewhere to go.”― John Green

6. “We cleave our way through the mountains until the interstate dips into a wide basin brimming with blue sky, broken by dusty roads and rocky saddles strung out along the southern horizon.”― Jonathan Evison

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

8. “The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.” ― Maggie Stiefvater

9. “Three o’clock in the morning. The highway is empty, under a malignant moon. The oil drippings make the roadway gleam like a blue-satin ribbon. The night is still but for a humming noise coming up somewhere behind a rise of ground. Two other, fiercer, whiter moons, set close together, suddenly top the rise, shoot a fan of blinding platinum far down ahead of them. Headlights. The humming burgeons into a roar. The touring car is going so fast it sways from side to side. The road is straight. The way is long. The night is short.” ― Cornell Woolrich

Inspirational Quotes About Driving

10. “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

11. “A road trip to the mountains where your soul dwells in the echoes of the winds that carry fragments of clouds with them.

12. “What it takes to realize world is going back to chaos and infinite hurry? End of the aforementioned road trip…”― Crestless Wave

13. “It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”― Aaron Lauritsen

14. “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

15. “I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw the sense of time out the window.” – Miriam Toews

16. “You steer down lightless highways, and you invent a destination because movement is key.” ― Nic Pizzolatto

17. “The road makes a noise all its own. It’s a single note that stretches in all directions, low and nearly inaudible, only I could hear it loud and persistent…” ― Gregory Galloway

18. “i took a night drive.
i needed to get away.
i needed to know
it’s okay to go
and have no destination,
where time moves slow
or doesn’t exist.
that life can be like this,
aimless wandering,
just breathing, living,
driving forever underneath the stars.” ― AVA

19. “It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

Quotes About The Open Road

20. “The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.” – Chris Humphrey

21. “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.”― Aaron Lauritsen

22. “Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”― Amit Kalantri

23. “It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa.” ― Kari Martindale

24 .“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.” – Isak Dinesen

25. “That night, after the movie, driving my father’s car along the country roads, I began to wonder how real the landscape truly was, and how much of a dream is a dream.”
― Don DeLillo

26. “Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.” -E. B. White

27. “They drove, the city slowly dissolving around them and breaking up into fields and trees.”― Brian Evenson

28. “The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.”― Diane Meier

Funny Road Trip Quotes

29. “Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.” ― Jenn McKinlay

30. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” ― John Green

31. “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

32. “You can’t take highways during the apocalypse, because they’ll be packed with panicky people.” ― J. Cornell Michel

33. “You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.” ― Tommy Cooper

34. “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra

35. “Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.” -Unknown

36. “I don’t drive fast, I drive YOUNG.” ― Musawir Masood

37. “I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.” ― Gary Reilly

38. “Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.” ― Sarah Rees Brennan

39. “Driving at night is about communicating with lights.”― Lukhman Pambra

40. “I’m so hungry I could eat a sandwich from a gas station.” – Chevy Chase

41. “Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.” -Mac McCleary

42. “The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”― Dave Barry

43. “Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.” ― Dan Rather

Family Road Trip Quotes

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

45. “I’d prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn’t start singing.” ― C.B. Cook

46. “A trip with Mom and Dad to Austin, Texas, through hill country: gently curving roads dissected by giant oaks, rolling rivers, and fields of bluebonnets so bountiful you’d think you’d stepped right into the heart of the ocean.”
― Misty Hayes

47. “It’s bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You’ll do your best not to act like children.”
― Rachel Caine

48. “Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don’t stop, don’t turn around, pay when you get there; he made his escape at the first exit he saw, for fiftyfive cents, and now he was on the old road buzzing the staid turnpike by turns over and under, teasing it crazy.”― Douglas Woolf

49. “Learn to drive?” “Never,” said Quentin. “My mission in life is to be a passenger.” ― Diana Wynne Jones

Road Trip Quotes With Friends

50. “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

51. “Road Trips aren’t measured by mile markers, but by moments.” – Unknown

52. “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” – Robert Earl Keen

53. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”  – Tim Cahill

54. “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

55. “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.” – Unknown

56. Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Author Unknown

57. “No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red light.” ― Moe Cidaly

Road Trip Quotes By Famous People

58. “If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you.” – Brad Paisley

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

Quotes For A Long Drive

62. “It’s quiet in the car, in a good way for once. No words, no music. Silence seems right. I roll down the windows and lean my head against the door frame, listening to the wind rush by and smelling the pine trees. I watch the stars materialize, like someone is dimming the switch on the night sky so each shining dot grows brighter and brighter.” ― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

63. “Here I was at the end of America – no more land – and now there was nowhere to go but back.” ― Jack Kerouac

64. “We never fell ill, not once during one year in the U.S. national parks–perhaps proof of the therapeutic properties of our natural world.” ― Stefanie Payne

65. “On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders.” ― Kimberly Novosel

66. “You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.” – Steve Rushin

Words Of Wisdom Learned On The Road

67. “The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.”
― Aaron Lauritsen

68. “The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.”
― William Saroyan

69. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams

70. “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

71. “Living is like driving,” my grandmother used to say. “You have to pick a lane.” Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and my future.” ― Kathleen Flinn

72. “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”― Angela N. Blount

73. “Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” – Byrd Baggett

74. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

75. “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

76. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

77. “Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

Love And The Open Road

78. “When we pull away, he rests his hand on my thigh pressed next to his and we ride like that for a long time; the only time he moves his hand is to take better control of a sharp curve or to adjust the music, but he always puts it right back. And I always want him to.” ― J.A. Redmerski

79. “For the first time since I met her, I understand her need to keep her name secret and respect that. Here, someplace other than at home, we can be who we want, be with who we want, as long as it makes us happy. There’s no past today, only this moment together, right now. ” ― Michelle Warren

80. “But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me”
― Deirdre Riordan Hall

81. “I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.” – Paulo Coelho

82. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” – Unknown

Music and Lyrics About Road Trips, Cars, And Driving

Every good road trip needs an epic playlist. This list of lyrics are from some of our favorite songs to drive to. Do you have a favorite song we missed?

83. “If you’re on a road trip, you need driving music.” – Edgar Wright

84. “On the road again
Goin’ places that I’ve never been
Seein’ things that I may never see again
And I can’t wait to get on the road again” -Willie Nelson

85. “I’m on my way
Driving at ninety down those country lanes
Singing to “Tiny Dancer”
And I miss the way you make me feel, and it’s real
We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill.” -Ed Sheeran

86. “Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
And whatever comes our way” -Steppenwolf

87. Life’s like a road that you travel on
When there’s one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There’s a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won’t haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore” -Tom Cochrane