Inspirational island quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
Famous Island Quotes
I feel we are all islands – in a common sea. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. – John Donne
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
Not all who wonder are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. – Albert Einstein
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. – Chet Raymo
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness – Khalil Gibran
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – Augustine of Hippo
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. – Richard Burton
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures. – Gretel Ehrlich
The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea. – Francis Daniels Moore
I read; I travel; I become. – Derek Walcott
If you can’t live longer, live deeper. – Italian Proverb
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Michell
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius
Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys. – Stella Benson
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. – Gautama Buddha
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? – Wyndham Lewis
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. – Ralf W. Sockman
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Unknown
20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did do. – Mark Twain
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. – Jeanette Winterson
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards. – John W. Gardner
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order. – Barbara Marx Hubbard
Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath. – James Rozoff
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. – David Quammen
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge. – Buddha
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, Tom Sawyer Abroad
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. – Jack Kerouac
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – Tim Cahill
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal – Paulo Coelho
Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely. – Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. – Denis Waitley
Islands are natural workshops of evolution. – Richard Dawkins
Every island to a child is a treasure island. – P. D. James
The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know. – Elisha
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
No matter where you go, there you are – Buckaroo Banzai
Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you’re on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it’s hard to picture how they fit with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all. – Chris Hadfield
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. – Charles Stross
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. – William James
Adventure is worthwhile. – Aesop
I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – Melody Truong
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
Oh the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss
No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return. – Mr Hudson
Best of an island is once you get there – you can’t go any farther…you’ve come to the end of things. – Agatha Christie
Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. – Peter Hoeg
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
The gladdest moment in human life, me things, is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin
Everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world. – Guy Gavriel Kay
