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61 Epic Quotes About India to Inspire Your Trip

Are you looking for some quotes about India to accompany your (Instagram) picture? Or are you planning a trip to the country and need some inspiration? Either way, you have come to the right place! In this post, you will find some of the best quotations about India, from short India captions to travel quotes and more.

With its incredible culture, amazing Indian landmarks and delicious food, India is one of my favourite travel destinations. It’s an immense country that’s incredibly varied, both in culture and in landscapes. With beaches, mountains, deserts, tea plantations, canyons and more, India has something to offer to every type of traveller .

But you’re here for the Indian quotes, so let’s dive into it! Here are the best quotes about incredible India.

Short Captions About India

These short Indian captions are perfect to accompany your pictures, whether it’s on Instagram or somewhere else.

1 –  “ Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself. ”  –  Reymond Page

2 –  “India lives in several centuries at the same time.”  –  Arundhati Roy

3 –  “India is not a country, but a home.”  –  Khalid Masood

4 –  “The world is the body and India is its life.”  –  Khalid Masood

5 –  “India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.”  –  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

6 –  “To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.”  –  Martin Luther King Jr.

7 –  “India is riven by the same diversity that unites it.”  –  Bharath

8 –  “ India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified. ”  –  Erin Reese

9 –  “This is India, my friend!”  – Adam Harkus

10 –  “Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.”  –  Shashi Tharoor

Quotes About Indian Culture

India has a vibrant culture. It’s the birthplace of four of the world’s most important religions; Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and religious monuments can be found all over the country.

You will find the best quotes about Indian culture below.

11 –  “ India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country. ”  –  Hanadi Falki

12 –  “ India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. ”  – Mark Twain

13 –  “ India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay. ”  –  Shashi Tharoo

14 –  “ You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian. ”  –  Amit Kalantri

15 –  “ It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. ”  –  Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

16 –  “ India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.”  –  Anita Desai

17 –  “India is , the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.”  –  Mark Twain

18 –  “In India, you’re taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine-human being.”  –  Deepak Chopra

19 –  “I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!”  –  Vinayak Muraleedharan

20 –  “If Egyptian pyramids were in India, they would become temples and mummies would be prayed as God’s.”  – Dido Stargaze

21 –  “If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.”  –   Shashi Tharoor

22 –  “In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.”  –  Apollonius Tyanaeus

India Travel Quotes

With an abundance of beautiful landmarks, an amazing culture and delicious food, India is an incredible travel destination. On top of that, It’s also one of the cheapest Asian countries to visit.

Here are some of the best travel quotes about India.

23 –  “Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.”  –  Tahir Shah

24 –  “There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.”  –  Erin Reese

25 –  “India is the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.”  –  Mark Twain

26 –  “The train system in India is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colorful experience you’ll never forget.”  –  Natalie Dormer

27 –  “ To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life. ”  –  Chris Martin

28 –  “If you ask what is one of the ten countries where you can take the king of photos, I would say India!”  – Mehmet Murat ildan

29 –  “Don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while?”  –  Elizabeth Gilbert

30 –  “I didn’t know then that driving in India would help me develop a steadfast mind like an archer, capable of staying calm and focused amid the mayhem of traffic.”  –  Ranjani Rao

31 –  “India is a paradise after Pakistan… It’s been a long time since I saw a woman. In eastern Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, I saw only men, and now when a woman on the street even smiles at me, the whole world looks better. The landscape is the same as in Pakistan, but still, so much more beautiful.”  – Goran Kropp

32 –  “India, it’s the center of the world. A land of intense contrasts, and if it wasn’t for Kingfisher beer and chicken bacon we felt we could live there forever.”  –  Karl Wiggins

Quotes About the Beauty of India

The following quotes describe all the beauty India has to offer, and the first one (#33) is my personal favourite.

33 –  “India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”  –  Kiran Millwood Hargrave

34 –  “ India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world. ”  – Erin Reese

35 –  “I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on Lord Krishna and the cost of living.”  –  James Cameron

36 –  “ India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. ”  –  Will Durant

37 –  “ If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ”  –  Romain Rolland

38 –  “India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. … India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.”  –  Shashi Tharoor

39 –  “If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions have been felt.”  –  Magith Noohukhan

40 –  “I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. ” – Goldie Hawn

41 –  “His youth carried his words and lit the room with optimism. “India is like our home,” he said, “our spiritual home. Even before we get here there was that feeling . ”  –  Richard Payment

Funny Quotes About India

Are you rather looking for some funny quotes? Then you might find what you’re looking for in this section.

42 –  “In India, you don’t drive on the left of the road, you drive on what is left on the road.”  – Unknown

43 –  “India is the only country wherein the total number of engineers exceeds the number of vehicles on the road.”  – Nipun Varma

44 –  “Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!”  – Mallika Nawal

Quotes About Indian Food

Ah, Indian food and its spices! From palak paneer and biryani to naan and paratha – it’s simply delicious. Don’t forget to try delicious Indian street food as well when you’re in the country, this is one of the things India is famous for !

With so much yummy food, quotes about the subject simply couldn’t be missed from this list.

45 –  “Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.”  –  Shobhaa De

46 –  “When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food – there’s so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.”  –  Laura Mennell

47 –  “So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don’t meditate, I don’t pray, but I eat two samosa’s every day.”  –  Dan Bern

48 –  “I love Indian food – it’s my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It’s really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.”  –  Joe Perry

49 –  “My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer. ”  –  Demetri Martin

Other Auotes About India

Didn’t find what you’re looking for yet? You’ll find the quotes that don’t fit in any other section below.

50 –  “There are two kinds of people in life: those who like India and those who do not.”  –  Khalid Masood

51 –  “India teaches me again and again, that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up.”  – Dena Moes

52 –  “Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.”  –  Simon Dring

53 –  “In India, we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.”  – Shashi Tharoor

54 –  “So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.”  –  Salman Rushdie

55 –  “Calcutta’s the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.”  –  Tahir Shah

56 –  “The best thing about India is the freedom that one enjoys here, which is also the worst thing about it.”  – Deepak Rana

57 –  “Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world”  –  Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

58 –  “ We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. ”  –  Albert Einstein

59 –  “ Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of. ”  –  P. Johnstone

60 –  “More dreams are realized and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.”  –  Gregory David Roberts

61 –  “ If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India. ”  – Max Muller

Quotes About India: Final Thoughts

Many of these quotes show how magical India is and how vibrant its culture is. I hope you have found the perfect Indian quotation to inspire your trip or to accompany your picture in this list.

India is an amazing country with plenty of things to see and do. This is one of these countries you could explore for years on end.

What’s your favourite quote? Or can you think of other beautiful quotes about India that are missing from this list? Let me know in the comments below and I might add them during the last update!

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You hear about the vibrant color, spicy tastes, potent smells, chaotic streets, rich culture  and ancient history of India. But the country is more than that. It has an energy and spirit that is difficult for me to explain. So instead I’ll let these 16 India travel quotes  speak for me and inspire you to visit India.

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55 Incredible Quotes about India that Captures her spirit

Last Updated on: Mar 20, 2024  

In this article, we have collated about 50 India quotes or quotes about India from explorers, travellers, historians and novelists from the past as well as the present. So if you are looking for quotes on India or India Instagram captions or even some inspirations to travel to India, then wait for no further and read on.

India is a land full of surprises and diversity. It is a country of extremes and this has been well experienced and documented by travellers and explorers of the yore as well as of the current times. While one can get absolutely mesmerized by the stunning landscapes of the Himalayan foothills, plains, coastal region, deserts and forests, the vibrant culture of the country is equally intriguing. In short, you can never be fully prepared to travel to India.

Because India will invariably throw some surprises at you.

For foreign travelers, India has either been a life-changing experience or a trip best forgotten. They have either loved the country or hated it. To be honest, I have found very few who hate India. There might have been problems such as dirty roads, cows on the streets, crowded trains, and differences in language, including  Punjabi , Tamil, or Hindi. There have even been a few safety issues for female travelers. However, all my traveler and blogger friends have said that they would definitely visit India again.

Read about what foreign travellers have to say about their experience in India

So here are a few quotes on India or India quotes that actually depict what explorers, writers and travellers feel about India. These quotes about India describes the soul, fervour and spirit of India.

Quotes about India by Mark Twain

“[india is] the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.” – mark twain.

I have always believed that Mark Twain has some of the best things to say about India. The writer of Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Prince and the Pauper and many other famous novels had spent about 3 months in India in 1896. He had mentioned that visiting India had been an adventure for which he was totally unprepared.

“India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.” – Mark Twain

“india is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in india only.” – mark twain, quotes about india on her culture, “indians are the italians of asia and vice versa. every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. for them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. ‘amore’ or ‘pyar’ makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.” – gregory david roberts, “india is a place where colour is doubly bright. pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.” – kiran millwood hargrave.

Didn’t I tell you, in India everything is in extremes? So are the colours. Everything is brighter and more colourful. Have you visited the festival of Holi in Brindavan, Mathura and Barsana ? You will know what I mean.

“India teaches me again and again, that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up.” – Dena Moes

This is so true about India. You will find skyscrapers and shanties within a short distance in India. Whether you like it or hate it, that is India for you.

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.” – Shashi Tharoor

“you can take the indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the indian.” – amit kalantri, “india – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. in india – at least in the circles i moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.” – erin reese.

Yes, we Indians smile a lot. We also love our jewellery and ornaments, but smile is something that is always there.

Quotes about India on Spirituality

“if i were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, i should point to india.” – max muller, “i am an indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. that is why it is called incredible india” – vinayak muraleedharan, “in india, i found a race of mortals living upon the earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.” – apollonius tyanaeus, “to me, india’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ everything is here. you can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life.” – chris martin, “india will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.” – will durant, “waking up in india is like waking up to life itself.” – reymond page, “india has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. it is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.” – hanadi falki, “it is the intense spirituality of india, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.” – dr sarvapalli radhakrishnan, “in india we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.” – shashi tharoor, quotes about india on science & mathematics, “gravitation was known to the hindus (indians) before the birth of newton. the system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before harvey was heard of.” – p. johnstone, “we owe a lot to the indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.” – albert einstein.

Yes, “zero” was invented in India by Sanskrit scholar Pingala who used it in the form of a Binary system. Later, the concept of zero as a digit in the decimal place value notation was developed in India by Aryabhatta.

“It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.” – Will Durant (American Historian, 1885-1981)

“whenever i have read any part of the vedas, i have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. in the great teaching of the vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. it is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the great knowledge. when i read it, i feel that i am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.” – thoreau (american thinker), “after the conversations about indian philosophy, some of the ideas of quantum physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.” – w. heisenberg (german physicist, 1901-1976), “our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the internal description of the human body given in the vedas (5000 years ago). then the question arises whether the vedas are really religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine.” – b g rele (the vedic gods), best quotes about india, “india lives in several centuries at the same time.” – arundhati roy, “if i would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, i would flip through the pages so quick and would replace india with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions have been felt.” – magith noohukhan, “the world is the body and india is its life.” – khalid masood, “everything is recycled in india, even dreams.” – shashi tharoor, “don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible even if it means coming to india and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while” –elizabeth gilbert, “the world is my home and india is my living room. i’m independent in my living room to explore, hoping someday i will also be able to explore my own home.” – bikram mahata, “in india, even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. there may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.” – eric newby, “wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – anita desai.

This is what India has on its visitors. And I believe, this is mainly because of her people. In India, guests are considered next to God and that is seen in the hospitality.

“When the land of snake charmers begins charming the world, the credit goes to its People, its Youth.” – Vivek Narayan Sharma

“living in a small town [in india] was like living in a glass house” – mallika nawal, “india will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.” – erin reese, “india is not a country, but a home.” – khalid masood, “if there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is india.” – romain rolland, “i like the evening in india, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on lord krishna and the cost of living.” – james cameron, “i noted that people are happy here in india. when i went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.” – goldie hawn, “more dreams are realized and extinguished in bombay than any other place in india.” – gregory david roberts, “but nothing in india is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.” – e. m. forster, “ in some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. it was then i knew that i had been in india long enough.” – tahir shah, quote about india on travel & food, “to other countries, i may go as a tourist, but to india, i come as a pilgrim.” – martin luther king, jr., “there are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. for me, india is such a place. when i first visited, i was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colours, smells, tastes, and sounds. it was as if all my life i had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with india, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolour.” – keith bellows, “indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.” – shobhaa de, “kerala’s food evolved from the diverse people who traversed this land. the story of kerala is closely linked to the story of the world’s eagerness for spices. because of the wealth this land possessed, people of various countries, religions and races arrived, for trade. flourishing commerce translated into an enthusiastic reception for those who could conduct business competently. which, in turn, opened up avenues for new religions and communities. eventually, colonization spelt an end to the hospitality, but it also gave rise to the strong ethos of malayali-ness that now marks this land.” –theresa varghese, “the train system in india is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you’ll never forget.” – natalie dormer.

If you have not done a train journey in India, you have not really travelled in India. Train journeys in India are chaotic and confusing. You will observe the locals in their elements in trains. And if you are travelling by a local train, you will see the local people and their daily life.

“There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.” – Erin Reese

Some other india quotes, “rains are an act of god in india. and god, as we know, is a law unto himself. he is not responsible, neither is he accountable. that is the essence of god: he gives with two hands and takes away with eight more. why else would indian gods and goddesses have several pairs of hands” – kiran nagarkar, “india is not a nation, nor a country. it is a subcontinent of nationalities.” – muhammad ali jinnah, “i listen to the sound of india’s voices for the last time. laughter ripples like water. a prayer is a single note held long. there is so much life here. and too much death. i feel a soft breeze caress my face and i look up. an orange ribbon is floating through the air. in india, it’s easy to see the wind.” –cathy ostlere, “until she went with him to india the first time after they were married. then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was – it was cultural, hereditary, something coded into his dna.” –thrity umrigar.

Didn’t I tell you before, Indians treat their guests next to god? Your experience of staying in India will be some of your best ones.

“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India’s golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.” – Tahir Shah

“calcutta’s the only city i know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.” – tahir shah.

This one I can vouch for. Calcutta or Kolkata is known for its friendliness and affability. Though known for many other things like literature, football and poetry, the cultural capital of India is a must-visit place for culture aficionados.

“ Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.” – Tahir Shah

Those were some of the best quotes about India. These India quotes definitely show that importance of India in the field of science and mathematics as well as depict how the ancient Indian philosophy has been providing guidance and spirituality till today. As for travellers in India, the country sure has her way to charm and entice. Travel to India, you will have a great adventure on road.

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Some of the quotes made me smile and just made me “want to travel.” . An amazing collection. Thank you

Thank you! Glad that you liked the quotes.

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excellant and really trendy with todays times, feel like a family

Excellent collection. Thanks for sharing

Thank you so much Pallavi! So glad you liked it.

I never knew such good words and quotes exist for india,all I heard about india is dirty, polluted,poverty ,scams etc…. Thanks a lot for showing such good words about mother India 💞

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The 100+ best india travel quotes & captions for instagram.

• Post published: June 8, 2021
• Post category: India / Travel Quotes & Captions
• Post author: Charu Goyal

India is one of those epic bucket list destinations that everyone either wants to visit or has already been there. From the iconic Himalayas, the majestic Taj Mahal and the sandy beaches of Goa; to snow covered Kashmir, the backwaters of Kerala and the historical land of Rajasthan – there is and always has been a wide range of incredible places to see in India.

It is a country where each corner depicts a colourful tale of its own. A land full of Instagrammable spots, India is that one country whose pictures I never seem to run out of. So, if like myself, you too have myriads of content to share from India and are looking for inspiration for your next Instagram caption, then you have come to the right place!

In this article, you’ll find over a 100 best quotes and captions related to India travel. From famous Indian landmarks , cities and states quotes; to funny puns about India and Indian food – I have searched the world wide web for you and collected my favourite India quotes and captions. I hope you find them inspirational, uplifting, helpful and hilarious for your next social media post.

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Famous India Quotes for Instagram

From popular movie dialogues to words by historians and novelists, a lot has been said globally about India and its undeniable beauty. Here are some of my favourite well-known quotes about India:

1. “[India is] the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.”  – Mark Twain

2. “Don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while?” – Elizabeth Gilbert

3. “There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.”  – Erin Reese

4. “India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.” – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

5. “Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.” – Simon Dring

6. “To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life.” – Chris Martin

7. “Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.”  – Tahir Shah

Meaningful India Quotes and Captions for Instagram

It is no secret that a trip to India leaves a long-lasting impression on travellers. If you are looking for expressive quotes and captions to best explain your time in India, then you might find some of the ones listed below befitting.

8. “India teaches me again and again, that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up.”  – Dena Moes

9. “If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!” – Romaine Rolland

10. “India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.” – Erin Reese

11. “The train system in India is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you’ll never forget.”  – Natalie Dormer

12. “India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.” – Anita Desai

13. “India is not a place that one can pick up and put down again as if nothing had happened. In a way, it’s not so much a country as an experience, and whether it turns out to be a good or a bad one depends, I suppose on oneself.” – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

14. “In India, you’re taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine-human being.” –   Deepak Chopra

15. “I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!” – Vinayak Muraleedharan

Short India Quotes and Captions for Instagram

Not in the mood for a thoughtful caption and want something short and sweet instead? You might like these fun one-liners about India in that case!

16. “Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.”  – Reymond Page

17. “India lives in several centuries at the same time.”  – Arundhati Roy

18. “The world is the body and India is its life.”  – Khalid Masood

19. “If there is paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this.” – Amir Khusrau

20. “India is still medieval.” – Abhijit Naskar

21. “Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.”  –   Shashi Tharoor

22. “India is not a country, but a home.” – Khalid Masood

23. “India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.”  – Erin Reese

24. “In India, everything has a use and a value.” – Tahir Shah

25. “To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.”  – Martin Luther King, Jr.

26. “India absorbs things; India’s not a divisive place.” – Rahul Gandhi

27. “In India, it is believed that all creatures have a purpose.” – Mel Gibson

28. “There are two kinds of people in life: those who like India and those who do not.” – Khalid Masood

29. “India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.” – Annie Besant

30. “India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Inspiring India Quotes and Captions for Instagram

Are you looking for something extensive and thought-provoking instead? These inspiring quotes about India and Indian culture will definitely touch a chord or two in your heart.

31. “If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions has been felt.” – Magith Noohukhan

32. “There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colours, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolour.”  – Keith Bellows

33. “Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.” – Gregory David Roberts

34. “I listen to the sound of India’s voices for the last time. Laughter ripples like water. Prayer is a single note held long. There is so much life here. And too much death. I feel a soft breeze caress my face and I look up. An orange ribbon is floating through the air. In India, it’s easy to see the wind.” – Cathy Ostlere

35. “I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become westernized; of China, nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.” – Mahatma Gandhi

36. “This is indeed India!” …. The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday’s bear date with the modering antiquities for the rest of nations-the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for the alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined.” – Mark Twain

37. “To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. One has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. It has to be a personal experience because nothing short of living through it can fully convey all it means to a people for whom it is not only the source of life but also their most exciting impact with nature.” – Khushwant Singh

Best Quotes about Indian cities for Instagram

Looking to share pictures from your trip to Jaipur , Kolkata , Munnar or Mumbai; but have no clue what to write as a caption? These best India cities quotes and captions might be it!

38. “Banaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.” –   Mark Twain

39. “Bangalore will always greet you with dreamy weather, Carnatic fusion melodies, a signature breakfast of masala dosa and filter coffee, and notorious traffic of course.”

40. “Calcutta is beautiful. Wherever you place a camera, you get a vision.” – Pradeep Sarkar

41. “Calcutta’s the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.” – Tahir Shah

42. “Calcutta is not for everyone. You want your city clean and green, stick to Delhi. You want your city rich and impersonal, go to Bombay. You want them hi-tech and full of draught beer, Bangalore’s your place. But if you want a city with a soul, come to Calcutta.” – Vir Sanghvi

43. “Experience monsoon in Mumbai and you will never feel like going to any other place in the world.” – Anonymous

44. “I asked my soul: what is Delhi? She replied: the world is the body and Delhi its life.” – Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan Ghalib

45. “If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.” – Ashwin Sanghi

46. “Jaipur is a blushing bride draped in pink, dancing in our dreams while the peacocks sing.”  –   Vinita Kinra

47. “Jaipur is the finest jewelry ever created on earth, where king was the jeweler and bricks his gems.”

48. “More dreams are realized and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.” – Gregory David Roberts

49. “Mumbai is my heart, Bombay is my soul.” – Anonymous

50. “Time spent at the sand dunes of Jaisalmer is never wasted. Rajasthan is calling and I must go.”

Best Indian States and Regions Quotes for Instagram

If you are looking for state-specific quotes or captions about Indian regions instead, here are some words about Kashmir, Rajasthan, Kerala and more that you can use.

51. “Beauty of Kashmir can’t be compared by the whole world.” – Aqdas

52. “Imagine a king without a crown. Imagine India without Kashmir.” – Vinita Kinra

53. “Rajasthan is more than just a desert. It’s a tourism gem and jewel.”

54. “Rajasthan is a beautiful amalgamation of the old and new; the ancient and the modern.”

55. “Kerala is superbly seen from a saddle, or with a paddle. No hour of life is wasted that is spent in Kerala.”

56. “Kerala is like opening up a lucky bag of surprises. Surprises full with so much adventure, love, culture, and nature making that bag a quite heavy.”

57. “If there is an appetite for adventure in you, then there is plenty of room in Kerala for you.”

58. “When you miss the deserts, head towards Rajasthan.”

59. “There is something in the Kerala air that makes sleep useless and encourages us to go, discover, and share more of the mesmerizing Kerala.”

60. “When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don’t go to everything in the middle.” – Gautam Singhania

61. “With the sound of gushing water, aroma of pine trees, the vibrancy of saffron, rise of azaan and an unfathomable calling, Kashmir surprises everyone.”

Related: 50+ Best Kerala Quotes That Make The Perfect Instagram Caption

Best Puns about India

Aren’t puns always a great idea for an Instagram caption? Whether you are looking for hilarious Indian food puns, city puns, or just any Hindi puns in general; here are some of my favourite puns about India that I am sure you’ll find funny too.

62. “I can’t wait to  Goa  there.”

63. “Keep calm and  curry  on.”

64. “Never a  dal  moment in India.”

65. “India is my cup of  chai .”

66. “Having a bad day? Wish you  Lucknow !”

67. “In gur company.”

68. “Aren’t the monkeys in India a little Agra -ssive?”

69. “Have I told you how much you  mattar  to me?”

70. “We just got here, but now it’s time to say  Mumbai .”

71. “ Agra-t  place to take pictures!”

72. “Should we have brunch at the Delhi or the New Delhi ?”

73. “I am having aloota fun in India.”

74. “Oh my gourd , isn’t India just beautiful?”

Famous Indian monuments, lakes and landmarks quotes

Want a quote or caption about a well-known Indian landmark or monument? From the Taj Mahal in Agra to Naini Lake in Nainital; here are some popular quotes about famous sights in India.

75. “The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.” – Rabindranath Tagore

76. “The sight of Naini Lake is always refreshing.”

77. “Taj Mahal is not just a monument, but a symbol of love.”  –   Suman Pokhrel

78. “There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it, and those who have not seen the Taj Mahal and love it. I would like people to watch the Taj Mahal and fall in love with it.” – President Bill Clinton

79. “There’s something that has captured Mumbai’s imagination. It’s indeed an awesome architectural beauty that captures the sea-side view. It shot puts the scale and grandeur of the city. That’s the Gateway of India.”

80. “The Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.”

81. “When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.” – Sara Jeannette Duncan

82. “In the Himalayas, it is hard to put words on your experience, you have to explore yourself – it has always been amazing.”

83. “Doesn’t this sound like a fun idea? You can camp almost anywhere in the Himalayas be it Kullu, Mcleodganj, Rishikesh or the foothills of Everest.”

Quotes and sayings about India by famous people

For a country as widely-known and visited as India, it is expected that a lot of famous people have said some wonderful things about it in the past. Here are some renowned sayings about India by the likes of Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, J.R.D Tata and more.

84. “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!” – Albert Einstein

85. “There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.” – Keith Bellows

86. “India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. … India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.” – Shashi Tharoor

87. “India’s way is not Europe’s. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.” – Mahatma Gandhi

88. “In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.”  –   Apollonius Tyanaeus

89. “If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.” – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

90. “I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.” – J.R.D. Tata

Funny quotes and captions about India

Is humour more of your thing? These funny India quotes and captions might be exactly what you are looking for in your India pictures.

91. “Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. I’d seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.” –   Karl Pilkington

92. “Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!” –   Mallika Nawal

93. “But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.” – E. M. Forster

94. “In India, even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.”   – Eric Newby

95. “In India, an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.” – Tahir Shah

96. “Being one in a million in India means that there are 1241 Indians just like you!”

97. “India is the only country wherein the total number of engineers exceeds the number of vehicles on the road.” – Nipun Varma

98. “No people whose word for ‘yesterday’ is the same as their word for ‘tomorrow’ can be said to have a firm grip on the time.” – Salman Rushdie

Beautiful Indian Outfits Quotes and Captions

And lastly, here are some short quotes and captions about beautiful Indian outfits to help depict the utter joy that it is to wear them. I mean, don’t you just love how colourful they are?

99. “Happiness is… wearing a lehenga.”

100. “Keeping our Indian traditions alive… One lehenga at a time!”

101. “Leaving a little sparkle wherever I go. Literally!”

102. “You can’t live an Indian life without Indian clothes!”

103. “As far as a lehenga is concerned, Robert Venturi was right: more is more and less is a bore!”

104. “The joy of dressing is in wearing an Indian dress!”

105. “When in doubt, wear an Indian outfit!”

Final Thoughts

That’s a wrap! I hope you liked this post about the 100+ best India quotes and found them enjoyable to read. In case I missed your favourite quotes or puns about India, then please let me know in the comments below and I will update the list.

If these beautiful India captions and quotes got you dreaming about visiting more places in the country then cities like Kolkata and Kochi are great additions to any bucket list! Though, if you are looking for a staycation rather, then Kumarakom Lake Resort and Alila Fort Bishangarh are most exquisite.

Happy traveling, Charu xx

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Such beautiful quotes about India- loved them all!

Thank you, Suman. I am delighted to read that 😊

Hi Charu, Rajasthan is truly more than desert. I had visited Jodhpur before the lockdown happened this year. My plan was to stay for two days over the weekend and I met like-minded people there and we explored the Jodhpur streets together. Towards the end, I have to cancel the return tickets because I felt I haven’t seen Jodhpur yet and the people accompanying were awesome that every day we used to visit somewhere in the morning and then go watch the sunset. 2 days trip become a week trip.

And, I loved the Goa quote as well, I can’t wait to Goa there.

Also, I had subscribed to your blog. But, I didn’t receive new posts, is everything fine with newsletters? or Did you stopped sending them?

I liked the thoughts in the post!

Hello Vansh, I am so happy to read that you loved visiting Jodhpur earlier this year and had a wonderful time. Your experience of meeting like-minded people and turning a 2 day trip to a week long one is exactly what I love the most about travelling. I hope you get to return one day and explore more of this gem of a state. And, Goa too!

Also, thanks so much for subscribing to my blog. My newsletter will be back on later this week and you shall receive it without an issue 🙂

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India is a vast and diverse land full of surprise and mystery that has mesmerised, frustrated, and inspired writers, travellers and other famous folks for generations.

This collection of the most beautiful India quotes might inspire you to travel to India or to find out more about this great country!

You can only partially prepare yourself for the culture shock of visiting India; even then, it will throw umpteen surprises at you. You will see filthy roads, grinding poverty, cows on the streets, and overcrowded trains. You might get struck down with the dreaded  Delhi Belly , and there are safety issues for solo female travellers to understand. 

BUT … India is FABULOUS!!

Most visitors are entranced by the stunning landscapes and India’s vibrant culture, and many say they would revisit India. India burrows deep into your soul, and I can’t wait to see India again.

These India quotes will help you see India through the words of explorers, writers and other travellers.

Best India Quotes

Let’s start with some of the best quotes about India from well-known names. I wonder which of the 75 India quotes will be your favourite?

“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”  Romain Rolland

“Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal!”  Tahir Shah

“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”  Kiran Millwood Hargrave  

“Always do the right things because it takes you in the right direction.” Mahatma Gandhi

“In India, even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers. There may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.”  Eric Newby

“India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.”  Will Durant

“Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.”  Reymond Page

“Don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while?”  Elizabeth Gilbert

“India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.”  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.” Mahatma Gandhi

“I listen to the sound of India’s voices for the last time. Laughter ripples like water. A prayer is a single note held long. There is so much life here. And too much death. I feel a soft breeze caress my face and I look up. An orange ribbon is floating through the air. In India, it’s easy to see the wind.”  Cathy Ostlere

“I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.”  Goldie Hawn

“India teaches me again and again that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up.”  Dina Moes

Short Quotes on India

If you want just a few words for your Instagram captions, look no further than these short India quotes.

“India is a country in which every great religion finds a home”.  Annie Besant

“Pink is the navy blue of India”.  Diana Vreeland

“The world is the body and India is its life.”  Khalid Masood

“Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.”  Shashi Tharoor

“I would say, if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn’t really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.”  Kalpana Chawla

“The future of India lies in its villages.” Mahatma Gandhi

“To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.” Rajiv Gandhi

“When I die, India will be found engraved on my heart.”  Mary of Teck (Wife of King George V)

“India has over 20 percent of the kids born in this world. And they move around a lot.”  Bill Gates

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.”  Narendra Modi

“India is a major power, with a youthful and hardworking population, and has an incredibly bright future. I hope the U.K. can be part of that journey as a close partner”.  Rishi Sunak

“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking”.  Joe Biden

“India allows you the luxury of a million inequalities. You can be a schoolboy selling tea to passengers sitting in a state transport bus, but you are royalty when compared to a shirtless, barefoot village boy, from what was traditionally considered an untouchable caste, living on snails and small fish – and sometimes rats.”  Amitava Kumar

Quotes About India by Mark Twain

I have always believed that Mark Twain has some of the best things to say about India. The writer of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , and The Prince and the Pauper travelled through India for about three months in 1896. He said that visiting India was “ an adventure for which he was totally unprepared “.

Here’s a selection of the best Mark Twain quotes about India:

“India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”  Mark Twain

“[India is] the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.”  Mark Twain

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.”  Mark Twain

“This is indeed India!

the land of dreams and romance, 

of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, 

of splendour and rags, 

of palaces and hovels, 

of famine and pestilence, 

of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, 

of tigers and elephants, 

the cobra and the jungle, 

the country of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, 

of a thousand religions and two million gods.”  Mark Twain

South Indian Quotes

Of all the India quotes, this next one has to be my absolute favourite! South Indian food is so very good!

“If you don’t love South Indian cuisine , you are either an alien, or your taste buds are spoiled.”  Ankit Singhal

“I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.”  Anushka Sharma

Best India Quotes About Mumbai

“Bombay, you will be told, is the only City India has, in the sense that the word city is understood in the West. Other Indian metropolises like Calcutta, Madras, and Delhi are like oversized villages.

It is true that Bombay has many more high-rise buildings than any other Indian city: when you approach it by the sea, it looks like a miniature New York. It has other things to justify its city status: it is congested, it has traffic jams at all hours of the day, it is highly polluted, and many parts of it stink.”  Khushwant Singh  (Truth, Love, and a Little Malice) 

Best Quotes on Indian Culture

“India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.”  Hanadi Falki  

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”  Shashi Tharoor

“Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. ‘Amore’ or ‘Pyar’ makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.”  Gregory David Roberts

“Indian cinema gives you everything that western cinema doesn’t. It’s masaledar and spicy. If you like Indian food, I think you’ll love Indian movies.”  Shahid Kapoor

“More dreams are realized and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.”  Gregory David Roberts

“Until she went with him to India the first time after they were married. Then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was – it was cultural, hereditary, something coded into his DNA.”  Thrity Umrigar

“In the life of the Indian, there is only one inevitable duty – the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.”  Charles Alexander Eastman

More Quotes about India on Her Culture

“Indian classical music and dance are not just for entertainment. They are designed to elevate your consciousness.”  Mona

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”  Amit Kalantri

“India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.”  Erin Reese

Best India Food Quotes

“I love Indian food; it’s my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It’s really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.”  Joe Perry

“Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.”  Shobhaa De

“When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food – there’s so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.”  Laura Mennell

“I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that’s because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn’t have to be. In fact, my husband can’t handle a lot of heat. I’ve had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.”  Aarti Sequeira

“Kerala’s food evolved from the diverse people who traversed this land. The story of Kerala is closely linked to the story of the world’s eagerness for spices. Because of the wealth this land possessed, people of various countries, religions and races arrived for trade. Flourishing commerce translated into an enthusiastic reception for those who could conduct business competently. Which, in turn, opened up avenues for new religions and communities. Eventually, colonization spelt an end to the hospitality, but it also gave rise to the strong ethos of Malayali-ness that now marks this land.”  Theresa Varghese

Quotes about India on Spirituality

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”  Max Muller

“In India, you’re taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.”  Deepak Chopra

“I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!”  Vinayak Muraleedharan

“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on Lord Krishna and the cost of living.”  James Cameron

“In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.”  Apollonius Tyanaeus

“To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life.”  Chris Martin

“It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.”  Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

“In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.”  Shashi Tharoor

“India lives in several centuries at the same time.”  Arundhati Roy

“If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions have been felt.”  Magith Noohukhan

“The World is my home and India is my living room. I’m independent in my living room to explore, hoping someday I will also be able to explore my own home.”  Bikram Mahata

“When the land of snake charmers begins charming the world, the credit goes to its People, its Youth.”  Vivek Narayan Sharma

“Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!”  Mallika Nawal

“India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.”  Erin Reese

“India is not a country, but a home.  Khalid Masood  

“But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.”  E. M. Forster

Quotes about India on Science and Mathematics

“Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The syst em of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of.”  P. Johnstone

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”  Albert Einstein

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.  Will Durant (American Historian, 1885-1981)

Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.  Henry David Thoreau

“After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.”  W. Heisenberg (German Physicist, 1901-1976)

“Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the internal description of the human body given in the Vedas (5000 years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine.”  B G Rele (The Vedic Gods)

India Quotes About Travel 

Indian train journeys offer a real immersion into the life of daily life of local people. I have great memories of the train journey from Delhi to Agra to see the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort as a teenager. Here are some the most inspiring India travel quotes:

“The train system in India is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you’ll never forget.  Natalie Dormer

“There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.”  Erin Reese

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”  Anita Desai

“To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.”  Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colours, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolour.”  Keith Bellows  

“In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.”  Tahir Shah  

Inspiring Quotes on India

“Rains are an act of God in India. And God, as we know, is a law unto himself. He is not responsible, neither is He accountable. That is the essence of God: He gives with two hands and takes away with eight more. Why else would Indian gods and goddesses have several pairs of hands?”  Kiran Nagarkar

“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India’s golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.”  Tahir Shah

“Calcutta’s the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.”  Tahir Shah

Wrap Up – The Best India Quotes

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Best India Quotes

“There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.” ~ Keith Bellows

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.” ~ Albert Einstein “India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. … India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.” ~ Shashi Tharoor “Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.” ~ Gregory David Roberts “India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.” ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah “I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture, or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last, and nothing else but Indians.” ~ Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar “In India, we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.” ~ Shashi Tharoor “Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.” ~ Shashi Tharoor “Everything is recycled in India, even life.” ~ Khalid Masood

“This is indeed India!”…. The land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday’s bear date with the modering antiquities for the rest of nations-the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for the alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world combined.” ~ Mark Twain “With me and India it’s all about leaving and returning. Madras is home. It’s a very complicated relationship. When you are away too long you get homesick, and when you are there too long you are sick of home.” ~ Tishani Doshi “India teaches me again and again, that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up.” ~ Dena Moes “How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world’s trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls “Come” through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.” ~ E.M. Forster “Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.” ~ Simon Dring “It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace “I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on Lord Krishna and the cost of living.” ~ James Cameron “India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox “Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.” ~ Tahir Shah “If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quickly and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions have been felt.” ~ Magith Noohukhan “His youth carried his words and lit the room with optimism. “India is like our home,” he said, “our spiritual home. Even before we get here there was that feeling.” ~ Richard Payment “India is still medieval.” ~ Abhijit Naskar “To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. one has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. It has to be a personal experience because nothing short of living through it can fully convey all it means to a people for whom it is not only the source of life but also their most exciting impact with nature.” ~ Khushwant Singh “A country as such does not be good or bad, only the people are good or bad, that too change by generations and this scenario is same to any nations. what India really have is a rich legacy.. nothing else” ~ Rajesh Nanoo “India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody’s wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone’s life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.” ~ Thrity Umrigar “Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world” ~ Virchand Raghavji Gandhi “India lives in several centuries at the same time.” ~ Arundhati Roy “I listen to the sound of India’s voices for the last time. Laughter ripples like water. Prayer is a single note held long. There is so much life here. And too much death. I feel a soft breeze caress my face and I look up. An orange ribbon is floating through the air. In India, it’s easy to see the wind.” ~ Cathy Ostlere “Even as I took a long, hard look at some of the obvious downsides (Q: ‘What are the three things keeping India down? A: Corruption, corruption, and corruption.’), I still felt the upsides (Q: ‘What is so fantastic about the India story? A: People, people, and people.’) tilted the scales in our favor.” ~ Shobhaa De “The world is the body and India is its life.” ~ Khalid Masood “She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru “In India, everything has a use and a value.” ~ Tahir Shah “In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.” ~ Apollonius Tyanaeus “I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.” ~ J.R.D. Tata “Our population of 121 crores is not a limitation – it is the reason we will grow.” ~ Sukant Ratnakar “So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.” ~ Salman Rushdie “In India, you’re taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine-human being.” ~ Deepak Chopra “India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.” ~ Erin Reese “The best thing about India is the freedom that one enjoys here, which is also the worst thing about it.” ~ Deepak Rana “This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time – relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them.” ~ Indu Sundaresan “The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation, and the preservation of vested interests.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru “We celebrate Republic and Independence Days in India to remind us, that our country and its freedom is the result of sweat, patience, persistence, and sacrifice of those with the courage to dream freedom and make it a reality for their future generations.” ~ Mohith Agadi “I am pain-stricken to say, since the moment I was born, I have found nothing extraordinary in this ancient land of greatness to be exceptionally proud of. I am not a proud Indian. India in its present condition has given me no reason to feel proud. However, I do feel proud of the ancient Indians, just like I feel proud of the ancient Greeks, the Mayans, the ancient Egyptians, the Babylonians, and so on. Scientists are beyond borders, just like the ancient scientists of India, whom you prefer to call sages.” ~ Abhijit Naskar

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India Travel Quotes

“To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. “India is not a country, but a home.” ~ Khalid Masood “Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.” ~ Reymond Page “Rains are an act of God in India. And God, as we know, is a law unto himself. He is not responsible, neither is He accountable. That is the essence of God: He gives with two hands and takes away with eight more. Why else would Indian gods and goddesses have several pairs of hands?” ~ Kiran Nagarkar “There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor.” ~ Keith Bellows “If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!” ~ Romaine Rolland “The World is my home and India is my living room. I’m independent in my living room to explore, hoping someday I will also be able to explore my own home.” ~ Bikram Mahata

“There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home. ~ Erin Reese “India has worked not because of ‘unity in diversity’, the presence of a locus of identity beneath differences, as the state is fond of telling us. We have flourished rather because we are ‘diverse in our unities’, each able to imagine the connection with others in his/ her own way.” ~ Pratap Bhanu Mehta “India is riven by the same diversity that unites it.” ~ Bharath “India is the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.” ~ Mark Twain “Partition of India was a portal.” ― Khalid Masood “Long Live India, Long Live the Indians and Long Live the Republic” ~ J. Ruby “There are two kinds of people in life: those who like India and those who do not.” ~ Khalid Masood “I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, – astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc… It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry…But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins’ science not been long established in Europe” ~ Voltaire “When the land of snake charmers begins charming the world, the credit goes to its People, its Youth.” ~ Vivek Narayan Sharma “Don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while?” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert “To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life.” ~ Chris Martin “India is a very young country. “India’s youth power, the skills and will power of this young generation will help give the country a new identity in the world.” ~ Srinivas Mishra “India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.” ~ Erin Reese “India has left indelible imprints on one-fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim … her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to the Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!” ~ Sylvia Levi

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Funny Quotes About India

“Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!” ― Mallika Nawal “Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. I’d seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.” ~ Karl Pilkington “I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb…” ~ Robert Edison Fulton Jr. “India is the only country wherein the total number of engineers exceeds the number of vehicles on the road.” ~ Nipun Varma “India is a place where color is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.” ~ Kiran Millwood Hargrave “India, it’s the center of the world. A land of intense contrasts, and if it wasn’t for Kingfisher beer and chicken bacon we felt we could live there forever.” ~ Karl Wiggins

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Quotes About Indian Culture

“I know Only One Culture that is India.” ~ Khalid Masood “India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture . It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.” ~ Hanadi Falki “I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!” ~ Vinayak Muraleedharan “Until she went with him to India the first time after they were married. Then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was – it was cultural, hereditary, something coded into his DNA.” ~ Thrity Umrigar “…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi” ~ Virchand Raghavji Gandhi “You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” ~ Amit Kalantri “India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.” ~ Abhijit Naskar “If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.” ~ Shashi Tharoor “But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.” ~ E. M. Forster “So all you desi boys and girls, dark skin or not, you are beautiful just the way you are. No need to change your skin to be fair and white. And no need to adapt to one’s culture to fit in. If you feel uncomfortable doing what other people are doing, then don’t do it!” ~ Simi Sunny “In India, it is a religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone – the bed-rock – the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.” ~ Abhijit Naskar “All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day – one for each namaaz – ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet – towards the house of God in Mecca.” ~ Vikram Seth “If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.” When I told my friends about the upcoming trip, everyone purred about what a great time I’d have, told me to take a lot of photos, told me to eat everything. But if you’re going to India to see your family, you’re not going to relax, you’re not going to have a nice time. No, you’re going so you can touch the very last of your bloodline, to say hello to the new ones and goodbye to the older ones, since who knows when you’ll visit again. You are working.” ~ Scaachi Koul “Amma and I went to each house to tell them we were leaving. They all said, ‘Don’t forget us. Keep visiting.’ At the age I was then, this seemed absurd. I had grown up among them – how was it even possible to forget these people? Now I see what they meant.” ~ Vivek Shanbhag “I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture, or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last, and nothing else but Indians.” ~ Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar In India God is full of gods.” ~ Khalid Masood “India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.” ~ Shashi Tharoor “India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.” ~ Mark Twain “India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.” ~ Hanadi Falki “In India, we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.” ~ Shashi Tharoor “Marriage: In India a fact. In other parts of the world an obsession.” ~ Khalid Masood “India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.” ~ Abhijit Naskar “India is not in Tamil Nadu but Tamil Nadu is in India, the untold story of diversity in unity” ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

Quotes About Indian Food

“ Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.” ~ Shobhaa De “Green herbs – mint and coriander – sniff, sniff! I’m hungry for chutney.” ~ Meera Sriram “Before enlightenment, cornflakes, and coffee. After enlightenment, cornflakes, and coffee.” ~ Dena Moes “Kerala’s food evolved from the diverse people who traversed this land. The story of Kerala is closely linked to the story of the world’s eagerness for spices. Because of the wealth this land possessed, people of various countries, religions, and races arrived, for trade. Flourishing commerce translated into an enthusiastic reception for those who could conduct business competently. Which, in turn, opened up avenues for new religions and communities. Eventually, colonization spelt an end to the hospitality, but it also gave rise to the strong ethos of Malayali-ness that now marks this land.” ~ Theresa Varghese

Quotes About Indian Politics

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.” ~ Max Mueller “India’s political economy is replete with tales of how things did not happen. The lament is preceded by the ubiquitous ‘if only’, about how solutions were thought of but the ideas did not translate into action.” ~ Shankkar Aiyar “India is a country for all but not a country for sale. Greedy politicians and greedy businessmen should aware of it.” ~ Dr. Sivakumar Gowder “In India, they don’t worship God, they worship politicians, religious leaders and film actors as God” ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar “Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.” ~ Sumit Agarwal “It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.” ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan “Democracy is about the dialogue; protest is about initiating the dialogue and freedom of speech is about respecting each other’s dialogue.” ~ Ankit Mishra “India needs a progressive leader to represent her locally as well as internationally. She needs a dignified, vociferous statesman, to represent her, talk for her, talk about her, talk to her, and bring the best out of her. I support a progressive, hate-free government for the future of my country. Every human deserves due respect and honour for being all that he or she is, however it cannot be denied an ounce of learning (with all humility) certainly aids in building a strong nation in every aspect. For eons India is known for her ideals, her diversity, and that she cherishes freedom and equality. Now anyone who she calls her leader cannot be allowed to puncture the constitutional fabric and infringe on the privileges she has enjoyed for years, especially after independence. Fellow citizens need to rise from sleep, that apathetic stupor, to the realization of the danger that she was plunged into in the recent past, and the imminent danger posed to the constitutional fabric, the economy of India, and the image of India. India needs to rise above the constant bickering within her walls, as the wise saying goes, a house divided within herself cannot stand. The torch of peace that we light within our walls will help us glow and light the world. Awaiting results.” ~ Henrietta Newton Martin “Imagine a king without a crown. Imagine India without Kashmir.” ~ Vinita Kinra

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Indian History Quotes

“History Depicts the Events Happened; the way we Perceive makes the difference” ~ Aniket S Sharma “The true father of free India was Subhas Chandra Bose, not Gandhi.” ~ Abhijit Naskar “History was alive and entangled in the everyday stories of India, and it needed to be coaxed onto the pages of a book. In that sense, history was a woman, substantial, vigorous, complex and always given the customary short shrift.” ~ Manreet Sodhi Someshwar “Indian democracy has taught the world the beauty and competitiveness of its governing system for a prolonged period. But Modi administration is remapping the Indian political map which some called the rise of nationalism, while others called it the rise of patriotism in this era of populism.” ~ Nilantha Ilangamuwa “The wounds will take decades to heal, centuries to overcome the trauma.” ~ Gulzar “If the history of British rule in India were to be condensed into a single fact, it is this: there was no increase in India’s per capita income from 1757 to 1947.” ~ Mike Davis “I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself.” ~ Shashi Tharoor “This arrogant, conceited history strides with her head in the clouds and never looks down. She does not realize how she crushes millions of people beneath her feet. The common people. She doesn’t understand that one may cut a mountain in two, but people? It’s a hard task, Bhai, to cut one person in two. They bleed.” A deep sigh coursed through the gathering. Master Fazal said, “History will keep on marching like this. The names of a few people will stick to her fabric. She will register those. there was Hitler, there was Mussolini, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, among others. this time the names maybe Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, Subhash Bose! But the names of the lakhs and crores who have lost their lives will be nowhere. They will be mere numbers in which all of us will be included!”.” ~ Gulzar

India Puns and Jokes

What do you call a person who tells a lot of puns? Pun jabi Having a bad day? Wish you Lucknow ! Keep calm and curry on. You’re second to naan . You ate all the curry, There’s naan left for everyone else! It’s always a good time for chai . The Indian  spice mix in with the crowd and disappear without a trace. You’re such a  daal ing. You’re kinda big daal . Life’s so daal without you! It ain’t over  lentil  it’s over! Have I told you how much you matar to me? India is my cup of chai . Driving be like: UK: Drive to the left US: Drive to the right India: Criss Cross What do you call a road in India? The Milky Way What’s the condition of roads in India? Hyderabad I feel like there should be a travel book for India called “A definitive guide to India: The Hindus and the Hindont’s” In America, you cast your vote. In India, you vote your caste.

Indian Proverbs

Just as beauty spots and hair beautify women, proverbs beautify language. The right path is steep and upwards, the wrong path is easy and horizontal. If you live on the river, befriend the crocodile. He who does not climb, will not fall either. Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. The cloud that roars seldom pours. Those who give, have all things, those who withhold have nothing. A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can’t be saved. I had no shoes and complained until I saw a man who had no feet. Life is like a lamp flame; it needs a little oil now and then. If one is lazy, even nectar turns into poison. Certain things capture the eye but pursue only those that capture the heart. Most adults are attentive to what someone is doing, but children see beyond that. All ten fingers are used in eating. But it is the thumb that has to push the food into the mouth. One can sense the fragrance of the tulsi even when the first two tender leaves appear. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Life is a bridge, cross over it, but build no house on it. Great anger is more destructive than the sword. Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view. Knowledge is higher than power. The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. Elders’ advice is like gooseberries; at first sour then sweet. The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth. You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans. You may look up for inspiration or look down in desperation but do not look sideways for information. Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. The worth of the shade is only known when the sun is beating down hot. The neighbor’s curry is tasty even if it’s sour. If you live in the river, you should make friends with the crocodile. To lift an elephant you need an elephant. In a tree that you can’t climb, there are always a thousand fruits. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Do not dig a well only after the house catches fire. Justice is better than admiration. We can’t change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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100+ Best India Travel Quotes For Instagram

Travelling to India is a journey  inspires the soul, increases the senses, and creates an memorable impression on the heart. It is a place of different cultures, rich history, and amazing views that have inspired numerous poets, writers, and travellers over the centuries. check out these  Best India Travel Quotes for instagram ! They’ll help you capture all of the thrill and beauty of your journey.

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20+ shorts best india travel quotes for instagram.

• “India: where every street is a story waiting to be told.”
• “Discover the magic of India, one step at a time.”
• “Let India’s colors paint your soul with joy.”
• “In India, every sunrise is a promise of adventure.”
• “Find serenity in the chaos of India’s streets.”
• “India: where history whispers and culture sings.”
• “Explore India and discover the art of living.”
• “Embrace the unexpected in India’s every corner.”
• “India: where every journey is a pilgrimage.”
• “Let India’s spices awaken your senses.”
• “In India, time stands still in the beauty of its heritage.”
• “India: where the past dances with the present.”
• “Find peace in the rhythm of India’s rivers.”
• “India: where diversity is celebrated and unity is revered.”
• “Experience India’s warmth in every smile.”
• “Let India’s spirituality guide your soul.”
• “India: where the soul finds solace in simplicity.”
• “Discover the treasures of India’s hidden gems.”
• “India: where every moment is a memory in the making.”
• “Embrace the spirit of adventure in India’s wilderness.”
• “In India, the journey is as beautiful as the destination.”
• “Let India’s monuments whisper tales of bygone eras.”
• “India: where tradition meets modernity in harmony.”
• “Explore the flavors of India’s culinary delights.”
• “In India, the heart finds home in its people.”

20+ Best India Places Travel Quotes

• “ India : where every corner is a destination waiting to be explored.”
• “Discover the enchanting beauty of India’s majestic Himalayas.”
• “Let the golden sands of Rajasthan’s deserts mesmerize your soul.”
• “Explore the lush greenery of Kerala’s backwaters and tea plantations.”
• “India’s beaches: where the waves whisper tales of adventure and relaxation.”
• “Marvel at the timeless beauty of the Taj Mahal, India’s crown jewel.”
• “In India, every temple is a testament to the country’s spiritual richness.”
• “Discover the vibrant chaos of Mumbai, India’s city of dreams.”
• “Find serenity in the tranquility of Ladakh’s remote monasteries.”
• “India’s jungles: where every safari is an adventure waiting to unfold.”
• “Embrace the spiritual aura of Varanasi, India’s oldest living city.”
• “Explore the architectural wonders of Jaipur, the Pink City of India.”
• “In India, the hills of Shimla beckon with their cool mountain air and colonial charm.”
• “Discover the royal heritage of Mysore, where every palace tells a story.”
• “India’s markets: where the colors, sounds, and smells awaken the senses.”
• “Embark on a culinary journey through the flavors of India’s street food.”
• “Find solace in the tranquil beauty of Rishikesh, India’s yoga capital.”
• “Explore the ancient ruins of Hampi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.”
• “India’s festivals: where every celebration is a riot of colors and emotions.”
• “In India, the ghats of Varanasi offer a glimpse into the cycle of life and death.”
• “Discover the architectural marvels of Delhi, India’s capital city.”
• “India’s national parks: where wildlife roams free in their natural habitats.”
• “In India, the palaces of Udaipur exude a timeless elegance and grandeur.”
• “Explore the spiritual diversity of India’s sacred cities, from Amritsar to Puri.”
• “India’s hill stations: where every vista is a picture-perfect postcard.”

20+ Best India History Quotes For Travelers

• “India’s history is not just a story; it’s an epic saga of resilience and renewal.”
• “In India, every monument is a chapter in the tale of civilization.”
• “Discover India’s past, where empires rose and fell like the tides of time.”
• “India’s history: a tapestry woven with threads of triumph and tragedy.”
• “Explore the echoes of India’s ancient civilizations in its timeless ruins.”
• “In India, every stone has a story to tell, every inscription a message from the past.”
• “India’s history: a living museum where the past speaks to the present.”
• “Trace the footsteps of history in India’s ancient streets and alleys.”
• “India’s history: a kaleidoscope of cultures, religions, and civilizations.”
• “In India, the past is not forgotten; it’s woven into the fabric of everyday life.”
• “Discover the legacy of India’s great empires and dynasties.”
• “India’s history: a testament to the endurance of the human spirit.”
• “In India, history is not just written in books; it’s etched in stone and marble.”
• “Explore India’s heritage, where every monument is a time capsule.”
• “India’s history: a journey through the ages, from ancient times to the modern era.”
• “In India, the landscape is a canvas painted with the brushstrokes of history.”
• “Discover the stories of India’s unsung heroes and forgotten rulers.”
• “India’s history: a symphony of cultures blending into a harmonious melody.”
• “In India, the past is a treasure trove of wisdom, waiting to be uncovered.”
• “Explore India’s history, where every temple, mosque, and fort has a tale to tell.”
• “India’s history: a mosaic of conquests, conflicts, and conquests.”
• “In India, history is not just studied; it’s experienced in every corner of the country.”
• “Discover the secrets of India’s ancient civilizations buried beneath its soil.”
• “India’s history: a journey of discovery, where every step reveals a new chapter.”
• “In India, the past is not a burden but a beacon, guiding us towards the future.”

20+ Best India Food Quotes

• “Indian cuisine: a symphony of spices, flavors, and aromas.”
• “Explore the culinary delights of India, where every meal is a feast for the senses.”
• “In India, food is not just sustenance; it’s a celebration of life.”
• “Savor the rich flavors of Indian street food, where every bite is an adventure.”
• “Discover the magic of Indian spices, each a secret ingredient in the recipe of life.”
• “In India, every dish tells a story, a tale of tradition, culture, and heritage.”
• “Embrace the diversity of Indian cuisine, from fiery curries to delicate sweets.”
• “Explore the culinary landscape of India, where regional specialties abound.”
• “In India, food is a language of love, shared with family, friends, and strangers alike.”
• “Savor the warmth of Indian hospitality, served on a plate of steaming hot food.”
• “Discover the art of cooking in India, where every recipe is a masterpiece in itself.”
• “In India, food is not just a meal; it’s an experience, a journey of flavors and textures.”
• “Embrace the chaos of Indian markets, where the bounty of nature is on full display.”
• “Explore the vegetarian delights of India, where meatless meals are a way of life.”
• “In India, food is not just about nourishment; it’s a reflection of culture and tradition.”
• “Savor the sweetness of Indian desserts, each a heavenly indulgence.”
• “Discover the simplicity of Indian street food, where humble ingredients shine.”
• “In India, every meal is a celebration, a joyful gathering of friends and family.”
• “Embrace the spice of life in Indian cuisine, where bold flavors reign supreme.”
• “Explore the rich culinary heritage of India, passed down through generations.”

20+ Best Indian Culture Quotes for Travelers

• “India’s culture: a mosaic of traditions, colors, and rituals.”
• “Discover the soul-stirring rhythms of India’s classical music and dance.”
• “In India, every festival is a celebration of life, love, and unity.”
• “Explore the richness of India’s cultural heritage in its art and architecture.”
• “India’s spirituality: where the ancient meets the eternal in a timeless dance.”
• “Embrace the warmth of Indian hospitality, where guests are treated like gods.”
• “In India, every meal is a feast for the senses, a celebration of flavors and spices.”
• “Discover the art of storytelling in India’s epic myths and legends.”
• “India’s cultural diversity: where unity is found in the embrace of differences.”
• “Explore the intricacies of India’s languages, each a melody of its own.”
• “In India, every gesture is a form of communication, every smile a language of its own.”
• “Embrace the philosophy of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ – the world is one family.”
• “Discover the timeless wisdom of India’s saints, sages, and gurus.”
• “India’s spirituality: where the journey inward is as important as the outer pilgrimage.”
• “In India, tradition is not just preserved; it’s celebrated and passed down through generations.”
• “Explore the colors of India’s textiles, each a reflection of its vibrant culture.”
• “Embrace the concept of ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ – the guest is equivalent to god.”
• “India’s culture: where reverence for nature is woven into the fabric of daily life.”
• “In India, art is not just a form of expression; it’s a way of life.”
• “Discover the art of living in harmony with nature, as practiced in India’s rural communities.”
• “India’s cultural tapestry: where every thread tells a story of resilience and adaptation.”
• “Embrace the spirit of ‘Seva’ – selfless service for the greater good.”
• “In India, spirituality is not confined to temples; it’s found in every breath, every moment.”
• “Explore the richness of India’s culinary traditions, where each dish has a story to tell.”
• “India’s culture: a treasure trove of wisdom, waiting to be discovered by the curious traveler.”

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India is celebrated as the land of cultures, colors, heritage, art, and diversity. Many come to explore the spirit of this great nation. Everybody has their own view, own perspective to capture its soul because this is the best way to see straight into the reality of India. We’ve tried to collect some of the prospects of the famous personalities who visited this nation in their walk of life. Get inspired to craft your own belief for this mystic nation—India! There inspiring India Travel Quotes are here. “Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.”―Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”  — Mark Twain “India has 2,000,000 Gods and worships them all. In religion, other countries are paupers: India is the only millionaire.”—Mark Twain “India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature.” — Yann Martel, Life of Pie “India is beyond the statement, for anything you say, opposite is also true. It’s rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, ugly and beautiful, angry but peaceful, and smart but stupid, it’s all the extremes.” —Anonymous “That’s how we keep this crazy place together- with the heart. India is the heart. It’s the heart that keeps us together. There is no place with people like my people. There is no heart like Indian heart.”― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram “If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life and has found solutions, I should point to India.”  — Max Mueller “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”  — Albert Einstein “If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.” — Max Mueller, German scholar “India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways.” — Will Durant, American historian

Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal. – Tahir Shah

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. – Romain Rolland The train system in India is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colorful experience you’ll never forget. – Natalie Dormer

Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of. – P. Johnstone

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These Quotes about India Reflect What the World Thinks of India

Diversity and dynamism of India in art, literature, science, culture, religion, history and spirituality has captured the imagination of scholars across the world. India is a gem, a wonder, and an enigma. Leaders from different walks of life have been eloquent in praise of India’s significant contributions to civilization. IndianEagle shares some of the best quotes about India in visual forms.

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Excellent. India had exercised its ability, as could be better understood from the illustrious accounts of great historians like Arnold J. Toynbee, Reginald Le May and Sylvain Levi. Toynbee observed that “India …has also been a major force in the world’s history in the very different field of economics” (Toynbee, 1964, “One World and India”, pp. 34-35). Le May noted that India exercised “an extraordinary fascination over the indigenous peoples of all the territories” ( Le May, 1964, The Culture of Southeast Asia: The Heritage of India). Viewed India as ‘Mother of Wisdom’ and ‘Mother of Law and Philosophy’, Levi looked upon India as having given “to three-quarters of Asia, a religion, a doctrine, an art…” (Levi , 1938, L’Inde Civilisatrice: Apercu historique). India’s wherewithal is also well evident in various other branches like medicine, art and architecture, music, agriculture and irrigation practices. But, it was all about the glory of the past.!!!

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• "Experiencing the energy of a thousand suns in India."
• "India, the journey that touches your spirit."
• "Savoring the symphony of sights, sounds, and tastes of India."
• "A kaleidoscope of traditions – Welcome to India."
• "Mesmerized by the magical murmurs of India."
• "India, where every corner narrates a tale."
• "From towering temples to bustling bazaars, India surprises at every turn."
• "Incredible! Incredible! It’s India!"

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Best Quotes For India:

• "India is not just a place; it's an emotion."
• "India – the cradle of human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history." - Mark Twain
• "India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire." - Mark Twain
• "India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life but also facts which science has proved true." - Albert Einstein
• "India is the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She is the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through village communities, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all." - Will Durant
• "In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing." - Apollonius Tyanaeus
• "India, the country of a thousand nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition." - Mark Twain
• "If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India." - Romain Rolland
• "India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them." - William Dalrymple
• "If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India." - Max Mueller
• "India – The land of dreams and romance, the land of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, the land of the Sphinx and the lotus, the country of a thousand nations and a hundred tongues." - Mark Twain
• "India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great-grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only." - Mark Twain
• "India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings." - Will Durant
• "India, the land of enchantment and ineffable variety, where every stone tells a story of struggle, splendor, and sacrifice."
• "India - where the rhythm of life, the harmony of music, the beauty of art, and the passion of love all find their sweetest expressions."
• "India is a land where every prayer meets a god."
• "India - a land where the ancient and the contemporary exist side by side, where thousands of brilliant images fill the soul with wonder and where quaint and pleasant surprises await one at every turn."
• "India, the land that all desire to see, and having seen once, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the globe combined." - Mark Twain
• "India - a land of sages, saints, warriors, and revolutionaries, who, while fighting their own personal battles, have left indelible marks on the history of mankind."
• "The spirituality of India is the single most powerful influence on my life." - Steve Jobs

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Indian Beauty Quotes:

• "Indian beauty is a unique blend of culture, grace, and charm."
• "In India, beauty is found in abundance, from the tranquility of the Himalayas to the vibrancy of an evening bazaar."
• "Indian beauty - where spirituality meets serenity."
• "India's beauty lies in its diversity, every state a canvas of its own."
• "The beauty of India is not just in its landscapes, but in its people."
• "Indian beauty: an elegant mix of tradition, color, and mystery."
• "In every Indian beauty, there's a story that transcends time."
• "The beauty of India is like a wildflower blooming in all its radiant hues."
• "In India, beauty isn't just about looks, it's about heart and soul."
• "Every corner of India holds an untold story of beauty."
• "The beauty of India shines in the smiles of its people."
• "Indian beauty – where color meets grace, and tradition meets elegance."
• "India's beauty is in its spirit of unity amidst an astonishing diversity."
• "Indian beauty is like a folk tale, told from one generation to another, always full of wonder."
• "A country as diverse as its people, India's beauty knows no bounds."
• "From the radiant peacock to the majestic tiger, Indian beauty is wild and free."
• "India's beauty unfolds in her diversity, from the deserts of Rajasthan to the backwaters of Kerala."
• "India's beauty is like a rainbow – vibrant, mesmerizing, and touching every soul."
• "India - where beauty isn't an illusion, but a colorful reality."
• "Indian beauty is a mosaic of cultures, traditions, languages, and histories."

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Indian Tourism Quotes

• "Experience India, where every journey is a new discovery."
• "Tour India – where history echoes, tradition speaks, beauty enthralls, and diversity delights."
• "Travel in India: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
• "India, where each day is a celebration of life."
• "Tourism in India - where the past meets the future."
• "Traveling through India is not a trip, it's a journey of the soul."
• "Unwind in the rich tapestry of Indian landscapes."
• "Come, lose yourself in the magical realms of Indian tourism."
• "India - where tourism meets tradition."
• "From the desert sands to snowy peaks, India is a traveler's paradise."
• "Travel in India: Where every path leads to a new adventure."
• "Discover India, where every monument tells a story."
• "Journey through India: From the mundane to the extraordinary."
• "Come, experience the timeless beauty of Indian tourism."
• "Travel India - A journey you'll never forget."
• "Indian tourism: Every place a paradise, every experience a blessing."
• "India - where culture, heritage, and history collide."
• "Visit India, where every moment is a postcard."
• "Travel India: Land of mystery, majesty, and marvels."
• "Explore India - Where wonders never cease."

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Indian Street Food Quotes:

• "The flavor of India wrapped in a single bite on the street corner."
• "Street food is the love language of India."
• "India's streets, where every spice tells a tale."
• "India: where street food is a symphony for your taste buds."
• "Discovering India one street snack at a time."
• "Life's too short to miss out on Indian street food."
• "The heartbeat of India can be found in the sizzle of its street food."
• "Spicy, sweet, tangy – the streets of India have it all!"
• "Love at first bite, courtesy of Indian street food."
• "Culinary chaos on the streets of India – and it’s delicious!"
• "Indian street food: Unpretentious, flavorful, unforgettable."
• "No Michelin stars, but a million satisfied palates."
• "Every Indian street corner tells a spicy story."
• "Come for the sights, stay for the street food."
• "A samosa a day keeps the travel bug at bay."
• "Where every lane leads to a foodie's paradise."
• "In India, every street is a gastronomic journey."
• "From the sizzling tawa to your plate – the magic of Indian street food."
• "Eating my way through the streets of India."
• "Street food is the secret ingredient in the recipe of Indian culture."

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India Hill Station Quotes:

• "Peace is a quiet morning in an Indian hill station."
• "Whispers of the wind, songs of the hills."
• "India’s hill stations: Where heaven and earth collide."
• "The hills of India – where serenity lives."
• "Breathless views, breath-giving air. Welcome to the hills of India."
• "The mountains are calling, and I must go... to India!"
• "Where every winding road leads to panoramic beauty."
• "Hill stations of India – where every season is a poem."
• "Elevate your senses in the hill stations of India."
• "Captured by the charm of the Indian hill stations."
• "India's hill stations - where the clouds meet the land."
• "Lush green beauty at every turn. That's India's hill stations for you."
• "Finding my high in the Indian hill stations."
• "A tryst with the tranquil at India's hill stations."
• "In the hill stations of India, silence speaks volumes."
• "Discovering peace, one hill station at a time."
• "Climbing to the top of the world in India's hill stations."
• "India's hill stations: where nature sings lullabies."
• "The beauty of India’s hill stations is no uphill task to admire."
• "The hill stations of India – elevating travel experiences to new heights."

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Indian Travel Quotes:

• "Embrace the chaos, feel the charm – that’s India."
• "India: Where every journey leads to a new discovery."
• "Traveling in India: A colorful palette of diverse experiences."
• "Experience a new world at every step in India."
• "Wandering through the rich tapestry of India's culture."
• "India, where the past meets the future in an eternal present."
• "Traveling India – where every mile tells a story."
• "Lost in the vibrant labyrinth called India."
• "An epic journey through timeless India."
• "India, where wanderlust finds its home."
• "A thousand destinations in one – India."
• "Where history, culture, and colors merge – welcome to India."
• "Discovering the soul of the world in the heart of India."
• "To travel India is to embrace its beautiful chaos."
• "India – the land where every journey becomes a destination."
• "A country of colors, cultures, and contrasts – that's India."
• "India: A world of wonder in one country."
• "From the deserts to the mountains, India's beauty is unparalleled."
• "India, where diversity finds unity, and travelers find home."
• "India: A voyage of self-discovery."

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Indian Love Quotes:

• "Indian love is like its spices - intense, flavorful, and unforgettable."
• "In India, we don't just fall in love, we rise in it."
• "Love, like the Ganges, flows eternally in the Indian heart."
• "Two souls intertwined in the cosmic dance of love – the Indian way."
• "Indian love stories are epics written in the heart."
• "Love in India is as diverse and beautiful as its culture."
• "True love in India is a journey, not a destination."
• "Indian love – where romance meets respect."
• "In India, love is the music in the symphony of life."
• "Love is the sacred thread that binds hearts in India."
• "In India, love isn’t just a feeling, it's a way of life."
• "Love is a timeless melody played on the strings of Indian hearts."
• "In India, every love story is a legend in its own right."
• "Indian love – as captivating as its sunset, as enduring as its history."
• "Love, the ultimate spice in the Indian recipe of life."
• "In the dance of love, India leads with grace and passion."
• "In India, we don’t say 'I love you,' we show it."
• "In the land of diverse cultures, love is the common language."
• "Love in India – the sacred bond of hearts."
• "In India, love is as timeless as the Vedas."

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Indian Adventure Trip Quotes:

• "Daring to feel the thrill in the land of billion hearts – India."
• "India: A thrilling rendezvous with the unexpected."
• "From snow-capped peaks to wild jungle trails, India calls the adventurer in you."
• "Embrace the wilderness in India’s vibrant landscapes."
• "Finding adventures in the mystic lands of India."
• "Adventure in India: Where the wild meets the spiritual."
• "Adventures in India: As diverse as the country itself."
• "India: where every adventure tells a tale."
• "Adventure is calling, and it has an Indian accent."
• "Unleash your adventurous side in the land of surprises."
• "In India, every road is an adventure waiting to happen."
• "Courage meets culture on the Indian adventure trails."
• "Buckle up for the Indian adventure ride of a lifetime."
• "Embracing the wild side of incredible India."
• "Finding my thrill in the Indian wilderness."
• "Venturing into the heart of the adventure that is India."
• "India, where your journey is the adventure."
• "Every nook and cranny of India holds an adventure."
• "Exploring the unexplored: The thrill of Indian adventures."
• "Catching the pulse of adventure in the heart of India."

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Indian Weekend Trip Quotes:

• "Weekend trips in India – mini vacations, maximum memories."
• "Discovering the joy of little escapes over Indian weekends."
• "In India, every weekend is a new adventure."
• "Weekend getaways: Unwrapping the smaller packages of Indian beauty."
• "India: where weekends are gateways to discovery."
• "Finding my peace in the Indian weekend retreats."
• "The charm of Indian weekend trips - shorter journeys, deeper experiences."
• "Two days in India, a lifetime of memories."
• "Reviving my soul with Indian weekend wanderlust."
• "Packing my bags for an Indian weekend of wonder."
• "Weekends in India: Short trips, long-lasting impressions."
• "Unwinding the Indian way – one weekend trip at a time."
• "Wandering off the beaten path on an Indian weekend."
• "Uncovering hidden gems in Indian weekend trips."
• "In India, weekends are the perfect time for mini adventures."
• "Discovering the joy of Indian weekends, one trip at a time."
• "Weekend escape to India: where relaxation meets exploration."
• "Exploring the soul of India, one weekend at a time."
• "The weekend is here, and India is calling."
• "Weekend vibes, Indian skies."

Indian Vibes Quotes:

• "Feeling the heartbeat of the land of diversity."
• "Lost in the rhythm of India's vibrant vibes."
• "In India, the vibe is as rich as its heritage."
• "Soaking in the symphony of Indian life."
• "Basking in the warmth of India's enchanting aura."
• "Feeling the pulse of a thousand cultures – India."
• "India vibes: An intoxicating blend of colors, smells, and sounds."
• "Immersed in the rhythm of India’s vivid existence."
• "Catching the vibe of Indian serenity amid the chaos."
• "India: A vibe you won't forget."
• "Experiencing India is like a vibrant dance of the senses."
• "India's vibes: Where harmony blooms amid diversity."
• "India vibes – a carnival of colors, emotions, and experiences."
• "Feeling the energy of the world's largest democracy."
• "India: A cultural mosaic that dances to its own rhythm."
• "In the rhythm of Indian vibes, we find our melody."
• "India – where the vibe is as diverse as its people."
• "Lost in the myriad hues of Indian vibes."
• "Feeling the timeless rhythm of India's heartbeat."
• "The vibe of India: an unending celebration of life."

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Indian Night Life Quotes:

• "Indian nights: Where stars meet spices."
• "Dazzled by the neon charm of India's night scene."
• "India after dark – a different kind of magic."
• "The Indian night – alive with lights, laughter, and love."
• "Discovering the vibrant nocturnal soul of India."
• "Nightlife in India – when the stars descend onto the streets."
• "When the sun sets, India shines."
• "Illuminating the dark – the nightlife of India."
• "The night is young, and so is India."
• "Under the Indian night sky, every moment is a celebration."
• "Nightfall in India – when life lights up."
• "Experiencing the vibrant hustle of Indian nights."
• "Indian nights, where even the stars come down to party."
• "Surrendering to the electric allure of Indian nights."
• "When the moon rises, India comes alive."
• "India's nightlife – the perfect blend of culture and cosmopolitan."
• "The Indian night: A symphony of sounds and lights."
• "India's nights: As diverse and dynamic as its days."
• "Living it up under the Indian moonlight."
• "Discovering the charm of India, one night at a time."

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Indian Beauty Of Nature Quotes:

• "In India, every landscape is a canvas painted by nature."
• "Witnessing the palette of nature’s colors in India."
• "India's beauty: where nature narrates tales of the ages."
• "Nature in India: A grand symphony of life."
• "Unveiling the beauty of India – where nature takes center stage."
• "From lush greens to snowy whites – nature's many moods in India."
• "India's nature: A timeless testament to beauty."
• "Nature’s grandeur finds a home in India."
• "In the heart of India, beauty meets nature."
• "India: A melody sung by nature herself."
• "Witnessing the pristine beauty of untouched Indian landscapes."
• "India's natural beauty: Where every vista tells a story."
• "Surrendering to the majestic allure of Indian nature."
• "India: A nature lover’s paradise."
• "In India, nature doesn’t whisper beauty, it roars."
• "India – where every season paints a beautiful picture."
• "Nature's canvas comes alive in the heart of India."
• "India: where natural beauty meets spiritual wonder."
• "Exploring the infinite beauty of Indian landscapes."
• "In the embrace of Indian nature, tranquility finds you."

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Short Indian Captions For Instagram:

• "India: Colors. Chaos. Charm."
• "Finding my India."
• "Spice, life, and everything nice."
• "Discovering the Indian vibe."
• "Incredible India, incredible journey."
• "Lost and found in India."
• "India: Unity in diversity."
• "Exploring the Indian canvas."
• "India – an experience of a lifetime."
• "Vibrant hues of the Indian soul."
• "Feeling the pulse of India."
• "India: My heart. My soul."
• "An Indian odyssey."
• "Celebrating life, the Indian way."
• "Unveiling the mystique of India."
• "Caught in the Indian whirlwind."
• "India: A blend of tradition and transformation."
• "In India, every moment matters."
• "Embracing the Indian essence."
• "India – a symphony of cultures."

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Short Solo Trip Captions For Instagram

• "Finding myself in the journey."
• "Solo travel: a soul-searching odyssey."
• "Me, myself, and the open road."
• "Solo, but far from alone."
• "My journey, my rules."
• "Uncharted paths, undiscovered self."
• "On a solo date with the world."
• "Self-discovery starts with a solo trip."
• "Exploring the world, one solo trip at a time."
• "Traveling alone, experiencing together."
• "Me-time in travel-time."
• "On a solo journey of a thousand miles."
• "Solo travel: No compromises, just surprises."
• "Alone, not lonely."
• "Embracing the joy of solo travel."
• "Traveling solo, but my heart is full."
• "Just me and my wanderlust."
• "Savoring the solitude on this journey."
• "I am my own travel companion."
• "Solo travel: The ultimate self-indulgence."

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Indian Trip Captions For Instagram:

• "Navigating the Indian kaleidoscope."
• "India – more than just a trip, it's a journey."
• "Wanderlust ignited in the land of wonders."
• "India: A journey into the heart of diversity."
• "The Indian odyssey – where every step is a story."
• "Experiencing the symphony of colors, cultures, and curries."
• "India – where every city has a tale to tell."
• "An Indian journey of a thousand flavors."
• "Basking in the vibrant vibes of Incredible India."
• "From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean – a journey like no other."
• "Exploring India, one tradition at a time."
• "India: My journey into the soul of the world."
• "Unfolding the Indian marvel, one city at a time."
• "Lost in the colors of Incredible India."
• "Tasting the spice of life in India."
• "Breathtaking views, heartwarming people – that’s India for you."
• "India: Where every journey becomes a homecoming."
• "Traveling the Indian panorama – one place at a time."
• "Embracing the exquisite chaos of India."
• "In India, every road leads to a new adventure."

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Indian Trip Quotes And Captions For Instagram:

• "India: A book where every page unfolds a new journey."
• "Immerse yourself in the poetry that is India."
• "India – a voyage of the senses."
• "In the heart of India, discover a world of wonders."
• "A trip to India is a journey through time."
• "Exploring India, unearthing stories."
• "India – where each moment becomes a memory."
• "Journey through the vibrant veins of India."
• "An Indian sojourn – experience that stays, memories that linger."
• "India – a journey, an experience, a love story."
• "Embrace the journey, the Indian way."
• "Traveling through India – the best story you will ever tell."
• "Experience India, where every path leads to discovery."
• "Embarking on the Indian journey of a lifetime."
• "India: A journey of the soul."
• "India – where the trip is as mesmerizing as the destination."
• "India: A voyage into the vibrant unknown."
• "A trip to India – where every mile is a memory."
• "From the Taj Mahal to the Ganges – an Indian travelogue."
• "In India, each journey tells a story."

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"As your India adventure comes to an end, the memories you've made will forever remain etched in your heart. The warmth of the Indian hospitality, the breathtaking vistas, and the countless moments of awe and wonder will continue to inspire and fuel your wanderlust. India's timeless beauty will always be a part of you, reminding you that there is still more to explore and experience in this vast and magical world. Until we meet again, embrace the spirit of India and let your Instagram captions share the stories of your unforgettable journey through this land of dreams."

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107 Incredible India Quotes – Instagram Captions On India

Here are 100+ Incredible India quotes that bring alive the spirit and the soul of India. These are some of the best quotes on India over the centuries. The soul and the spirit of India come alive in these incredible India quotes . Go ahead and check out the incredible India quotes.

The soul and the spirit of India come alive in these incredible India quotes . These are not mere words, but a gush of emotion that the very thought of India unleashes. Why India is termed as incredible can be understood by the words of many great men from all over the world. From Swami Vivekananda to Mark Twain, from Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King, and from Annie  Besant to Albert Einstein, the luminaries of the world have eulogised India in their own words and style.

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Best Quotes About India – Why India Is Incredible | Incredible India Quotes

As India surges ahead to meet her tryst with destiny and celebrates her independence as, “ Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav ,” we bring to you a specially curated selection of the best quotes on India , from some of the greatest minds of the world. These include ancient travellers to India, scientists, philosophers, spiritual leaders, writers, and politicians, from across the world and spanning many centuries.

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Incredible India Quotes In English By Authors

Authors and litterateurs who have been shining stars spreading their luminescence far and wide with their writings have waxed eloquent about India and its various facets. Here is a selection of some of the best incredible India quotes about India by writers.

1 . “India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only” – Mark Twain

2. “In religion, India is the only millionaire… The one land that all men desire to see and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined”. – Mark Twain, American Author

3. “So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.” ~ Mark Twain

4. “There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colours, smells, tastes, and sounds… I had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolour.” R.W. Emerson, American Author

5. “The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator’s hand.” George Bernard Shaw

6. “There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads. – Max Muller

7. “Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.” ~ Max Muller

8. “If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.” ~ Max Muller

9. “And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life… again I should point to India.” ~ Max Muller

10. “India was China’s teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world’s teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.” ~ Lin Yutang

11. “India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world” ~ Leo Tolstoy

12. “India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Author and Poet

13.” The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go – in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert – and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.” ~ Ruskin Bond

14. “To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.” ~ Alan Watts

15. “I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.” ~ Voltaire

Incredible India Quotes By Historians And Travellers

Historians and travellers to India have documented their impressions about India for thousands of years across history. From Megasthenes to Hiuen-Tsang, and from Al Barauni to Ibn Batuta, they have all been touched by the emotion called India and have documented their feelings. Here are a few best quotes on India from them.

1. “India was the motherland of our race and Sanksrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity..of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.” – Will Durant, American Historian

2. “India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.” ~ Will Durant

3. “It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.” ~ Will Durant

4. “Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago.”- Grant Duff, British Historian

5. “It is already becoming clearer that a chapter which has a western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race… At this supremely dangerous moment in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way.” – Dr. Arnold Toynbee, British Historian

6. “India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.” – – William Dalrymple

7. “Millions of precious gems, millions of gold coins, millions of miles of fertile country, millions of amazing people.” – Marco Polo

8. “All the descriptions of the parts of India visited by the Greeks give the idea of a country teeming with population and enjoying the highest degree of prosperity – 1500 cities between Hydaspes and Hyphasis” – Mountstuart Elphinstone

9. “Even in the smallest villages, rice, flour, butter, milk, beans and other vegetables, sugar and sweetmeats, dry and liquid, can be procured in abundance…” Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French Traveler of the 17th Century

10. “India then being four-sided in the plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hmdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile.” ~ Megasthenes

11. “At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.” ~ Jules Michelet, French Historian

Incredible India Quotes In English By Spiritual Leaders And Philosophers

One of the gifts that India has bequeathed the world is its spirituality and philosophy . The Vedas, the Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita , and other ancient Indian texts, have shown the light to millions of people across the globe. India has been the land that gave birth to the great Adi Shankaracharya , and in more recent times, Swami Vivekananda , both of who represent the true spirit of India and its soul. Here are some incredible India quotes that are gems of wisdom about India from spiritual leaders and philosophers of the world.

1. “If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when Man began the dream of existence, it is India” – Romain Rolland , French Philosopher

2. “In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.” – Romain Rolland, FrenchPhilosopher

3. “When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East–above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe–we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.” ~ Victor Cousin, French Philosopher

4. “Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, American Philosopher

5. “India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.” ~ Sri Aurobindo

6. “India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.” ~ Sri Aurobindo

Swami Vivekananda’s Inspiring Quotes On Nation India

7. “History itself bears testimony to the fact. All the soul-elevating ideas and the different branches of knowledge that exist in the world are found on proper investigation to have their roots in India.”

8. “From time immemorial India has been the mine of precious ideas to human society; giving birth to high ideas herself, she has freely distributed them broadcast over the whole world.”

9. “If there is any land on this earth that can lay claim to be the blessed Punya Bhumi, to be the land to which all souls on this earth must come to account for Karma, the land to which every soul that is wending its way Godward must come to attain its last home, the land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness, above all, the land of introspection and of spirituality – it is India”

10. “When the real history of India will be unearthed, it will be proved that, as in matters of religion, so in fine arts, India is the primal Guru of the whole world.”

11. “The Indian nation cannot be killed. Deathless it stands, and it will stand so long as that spirit shall remain as the background, so long as her people do not give up their spirituality.”

Best Quotes on India By Great Scientists And Mathematicians | Incredible India Quotes

India is the land which invented Zero. Ancient India had made such advances in the fields of astronomy, alchemy, physics, mathematics, medicine, and other branches of science, which none could emulate. It is amazing to read these incredible India quotes about India , by scientists and mathematicians of the western world.

1. “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.” – Albert Einstein, Physicist

2. “The knowledge I have acquired about Bengal in two visits inclines me to believe that it is richer than Egypt. It exports in abundance cotton and silks, rice, sugar, butter. It produces amply for its own consumption of wheat, vegetables, grains, fowls, ducks and geese. It has immense herds of pigs and flocks of sheep and goats. Fish of every kind it has in profusion. From Rajmahal to the sea, is an endless number of canals, cut in bygone ages from the Ganges by immense labour for navigation and irrigation.” – Francois Bernier, French Physicist

3. “I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times” ~ John Archibald Wheeler, Physicist

4. “After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.” ~ Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

5. “There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.” (‘Mathematics for the Millions’) – Lancelot Hogben, British Statistician

Incredible India Quotes By World Leaders And Statesmen

India through the ages has always been in the spotlight. Leaders from every corner of the world have recognised the importance of India, and have given vent to their thoughts through some of the most inspirational Indian Quotes .

1. “I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China, nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

2. “India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border” – Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to the USA

3. “There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls.”-Sardar Patel

4. “India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age” – Jawaharlal Nehru

5. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

6. “The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

7. “At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru

8. “Never lose your faith in the destiny of India. There is no power on Earth that can keep India in bondage. India will be free, that too, soon.”- Subhash Chandra Bose

9. “My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.” – Annie Besant

10. “India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.” – Annie Besant

11. “Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.” – Annie Besant

12. “India is the land where the techniques of nonviolent social change were developed that my people have used in Montgomery, Alabama and elsewhere throughout the American South” – Martin Luther King

Modern India Quotes | Incredible India Quotes

India is today a colossal powerhouse of talent, people, and resources. It is the largest democracy in the world and is set to take centre stage in the world arena. Here are some Modern India quotes , that give an insight into India today.

1. “India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.” ~ Anita Desai

2. “I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.” ~ Narendra Modi

3. “India is the world’s most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We should dream big, we should enable the youth to dream big and we should give them an opportunity to realize their dreams” ~ Narendra Modi

4. “Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.” ~ Pranab Mukherjee

5. “I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.” ~ J. R. D. Tata

6. “If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali–a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.”– Shashi Tharoor

7. “Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.” ~ Vikram Batra

8. “Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.” ~ Steve Jobs

9. “India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.” ~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

10. “IT+IT=IT; Indian talent + Information technology = India Tomorrow” ~ Narendra Modi

11. “The extraordinary thing about India is that it’s such a family place. It’s full of families everywhere.” ~ Danny Boyle

12. “India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.” ~ Simon Beaufoy

13. “The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. This is a legitimate ambition for China. This is a legitimate ambition for India. And the challenge for humanity is to evolve a world system in which the legitimate ambitions of both our countries can find constructive expression without threatening anybody else.” ~ Manmohan Singh

14. “We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.” ~ Narendra Modi

I Love India Quotes – Best Quotes About Indian Culture & Philosophy

India is an emotion, it is a feeling to be experienced with all the senses. One cannot but help fall in love with India. Here are some incredible India quotes which are essentially I Love My India Quotes in English , that express the feelings of some of the greatest towards India.

1. “In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.” ~ H. G. Wells

3. “The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India, and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

4. “India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.” ~ George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

5. “When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.” ~ Mary of Teck

6. “On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place I had been before. It felt like it was my spiritual home.” ~ Trevor Hall, American Singer

7. “I actually got really interested in travelling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don’t like doing things without knowing about the history.” ~ Eden Sher

Incredible India Quotes In English On Yoga

India is the birthplace of Yoga and the modern-day Yoga capital of the world. In many ways, Yoga is a way of life and synonymous with Indian ethos and culture. Here are some inspiring quotes from some of the great Yoga masters of India. So presenting these Incredible India quotes to inspire your next trip to India .

1. “In the west, we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it’s from in India it’s a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.” ~ Jayne Middlemiss

2. “International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge-based peoples’ movement the world has ever seen.”- Narendra Modi

3. “If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

4. “Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

5. “Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.” ~ Patanjali

6. “If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.” ~ Patanjali

7. “Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practise, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.” ~ Indra Devi

8. “Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.” ~ K. Pattabhi Jois

9. “Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.” ~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

10. “Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

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1. “India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.” – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

2. “Don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while?” – Elizabeth Gilbert

3. “Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.” – Tahir Shah

4. “India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.” – Anita Desai

5. “Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.” – Reymond Page

6. “The world is the body and India is its life.” – Khalid Masood

7. “To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. “In India, it is believed that all creatures have a purpose.” – Mel Gibson

9. “Jaipur is a blushing bride draped in pink, dancing in our dreams while the peacocks sing.” – Vinita Kinra

10. “The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.” – Rabindranath Tagore

11. “There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it, and those who have not seen the Taj Mahal and love it. I would like people to watch the Taj Mahal and fall in love with it.” – President Bill Clinton

12. “India’s way is not Europe’s. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.” –   Mahatma Gandhi

13. “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

14. “If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language … the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Patriotic Incredible India Quotes In Hindi | Incredible India Quotes In Hindi

India is a land that has been nurtured by the sacrifices of millions who gave up their lives for their beloved country. Here are a few incredible India quotes that capture the patriotic fervour of the great freedom fighters, and the soldiers of India.

1. “Karo Ya Maro,” (Do or Die) – Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Dushman ki goliyon ka hum samna karenge, Azad hee rahein hain, Azad hee rahenge,” (We fill face the bullets of the enemy, we have been free and will always be free) – Chandrashekhar Azad

3. “Khoon se khelenge Holi gar Vatan mushkil main hai”  (we will play Holi without blood if our country is in difficulty) – Ashfaqullah Khan

4. “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil me hai, dekhna hai zor kitna baazu-e-qaatil me hai” (The desire to sacrifice onself is in the heart, it has to be seen how much strength the enemy has)– Ramprasad Bismil

5. “Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara” – (India is the best in the world) – Muhammad Iqbal

Incredible India Quotes About Indian Food

India’s cuisine is as colourful and varied as its culture. Its aromas and flavours have spun a tantalizing web around Indians and visitors to India alike. Here are some quotes about Indian food.

1. “I love Indian food – it’s my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It’s really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.” ~ Joe Perry

2. “When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don’t know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.” ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

3. “I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.” ~ Phil Collins

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

1. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

5. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

13. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

36. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin

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

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “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

51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

53. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

54. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “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

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

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. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

69. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

72. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

75. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

83. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

88. “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. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” –  Jack Kerouac

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman

95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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Travel quotes from the age old wisdom of sanskrit literature.

India has valued ‘Travel’ and ‘Travel Experiences’ for a long time. Travel quotes from our Sanskrit literature are a testimony to this. They contain the age-old wisdom of our Rishis, who were the biggest travelers ever.

Today, we look at such Sanskrit travel quotes from the past and understand how they viewed travel. For starters let’s see how many words are there for travel in Sanskrit.

Popular Sanskrit Words for Travel

यात्रा (yatra) – To Travel

यात्री (Yatri) – Traveler

पर्यटक (paryaTaka) – Tourist

पर्यटन ( ParyaTan) – Tourism

पथिक (pathika) – That on the road

प्रवासिन् (pravAsin) – Living in another country

and there are many more such words.

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Travel Quotes from Sanskrit

Some of the quotes from different Sanskrit scriptures and what they tell about being a traveler:

• पर्यटन् पृथिवीं सर्वां, गुणान्वेषणतत्परः। Panchatantra

जो गुणों की खोज में तत्पर है,वे लोग सारी पृथिवी घुमते है।

Those who wish to seek virtues travel the entire world.

2. हदये सुखसम्पत्तिः पदे पर्यटनं फलम्। Source – Sarva-Siddhant-Samgrah

उनके मन में सुख, संपत्ती और पैरों में पर्यटन होता है।

They have happiness and wealth in their hearts and traveling in their feet.

3. चरैवेति चरैवेति॥ Aitareya Brahman 7.15

चलते रहो, चलते रहो…

Keep moving, keep moving…

4. यस्मिन्प्रचीर्णे च पुनश्चरन्ति; स वै श्रेष्ठो गच्छत यत्र कामः। Mahabharat, Ashwamedh Parva 7-23

जो लोग सामनेआए हुए (मार्ग) पर चलते है, वह श्रेष्ठ होते है और उनको अभीष्ट प्राप्त होता है।

Those who walk on what has come forth, are indeed great and get what they desire.

5. चरन्ति वसुधां कृत्स्नां वावदूका बहुश्रुताः। Mahabharat, Shanti Parva 19-24

बुद्धीमान् और वाक्-कुशल लोग, सारी पृथ्वी घुमते है।

Intelligent and eloquent people roam around the whole world.

6. चरन्मार्गान्विजानाति | Mahabharat, Adi Parva 133-23

पथिक व्यक्ती को मार्ग पता चलता है।

A wanderer (eventually) knows the path.

7. आस्ते भग आसीनस्य, ऊध्वर्स्तिष्ठति तिष्ठतः। शेते निपद्यमानस्य, चराति चरतो भगः। Aitareya Brahman 7-15

बैठे हुए मनुष्य का सौभाग्य बैठा रहता है, उठ कर खडे होने वाले व्यक्ति का सौभाग्य भी उठ कर खड़ा हो जाता है,लेटे हुए मनुष्य का सौभाग्य सोया रहता है, और चलने वाले व्यक्ति का सौभाग्य उसके साथ- साथ चल पड़ता है।

The fate of a person who sits, also seats. The fate of a standing person also stands and the fate of a sleeping person also sleeps. But the fate of a person who walks (travels) also walks (grows) along.

8. चरन् वै मधु विन्दति, चरन् स्वादुमुदुम्बरम्। सूयर्स्य पश्य श्रेमाणं, यो न तन्द्रयते चरन्। Aitareya Brahman 7.15

जो सदा श्रमशील, गतिशील हैं, वो सदा मधुपान (शहद/ अमृत / परिश्रम का सुफल) करते हैं, कर्मयोगी को सदा श्रेष्ठ कर्म का श्रेष्ठ परिणाम मिलता है। देखो, सूर्य कितना, कर्मशील और सृजन शील है, पल भर भी जो दूसरों के कल्याण के लिये अपने श्रम से कभी विमुख नही हैं ।

The one who travels enjoys the nectar. The same enjoy sweet fruits. Look at the efforts lord Surya, he is never tired of walking.

9. अन्योन्यवीर्यनिकषाः पुरुषा भ्रमन्ति। Urubhangam 2

एक दुसरे की पहचान जो वीरता से करते है, वे लोग घुमते है।

Those who test each-other based on their valor, travel.

10. दुःखं हन्तुं सुखं प्राप्तुं ते भ्रमन्ति मुधाम्बरे। Bodhicharyavararah

वे आकाश में मुग्ध रूप से, दुःख भुलने के लिये और सुख के प्राप्ति के लिये घूमते (उडते) है (हमारी तरह)।

They roam madly in space, to forget the grief, and to attain happiness (just like us).

11. हृदि श्रीर्मस्तके राज्य पादे पर्यटनं फलम्। Sarva-siddhant-samgrah

उनके मन में संपत्ति, सिर के उपर राज्य (का दायित्व) और पैरों में पर्यटन होता है।

They have wealth in heart, kingship on their heads (responsibilities) and traveling in their feet.

12. योजनानां सहस्त्रं तु शनैर्गच्छेत् पिपीलिका। Subhashitamala

शनैः शनैः ही सही, सतत चलते रहने पर, चींटी जैसी छोटी सी जीव भी सहस्रों योजन की यात्रा पूरी कर लेती है।

Even a tiny creature such as ant can move ahead miles together if it keeps on walking consistently.

भिन्न देशों में यात्रा करने वाले और विद्वानों के साथ संबंध रखने वाले व्यक्ति की बुद्धि उसी तरह बढ़ती है, जैसे तेल की एक बूंद पानी में फैलती है।

The intelligence of a person who travels in different countries and associates with scholars expand, just as a drop of oil expands in water.

If you know of more travel-related quotes from Sanskrit scriptures, do tell us about them in the comments below.

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संस्कृत के उत्तम अनमोल वचन को बहुत ही अच्छे व सरल हिंदी भाषा में आपने उद्धत किया है। पथिक की जिम्मेदारी होती है की वक़्त की स्लेट पर ऐसी द्रढ़ छाप छोड़े की आने वाले उसे दोहराए और जज्बे से जीत तक जाये पथिकों ने संस्कृति का विकास किया है दुनिया का विस्तार किया है वापस लौट जाने वालो ने नहीं ।। ????????

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We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.

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Thinking of heading to India? Or maybe you are already in the middle of a trip. The country is paradise for people who love to click photographs. Obviously these need to find their way to Instagram.

After living my entire life in the country, I’ve collected some pretty amazing India captions and quotes for Instagram.

Yes! Trust me! From the short catchy India captions and quotes to the funny India captions, quotes and puns. I’ve read them, jotted them down and compiled them into one long post so that you have all that you need in one place.

In fact, I’ve even got some incredible India captions and quotes in the mix.

Oh and since it is often super hard to find the perfect quote, I’ve divided them up into sections so you can head right to the India captions and quotes that you need.

So don’t forget to bookmark, pin and save this post because you will need it along your journey.

Oh and incase you aren’t on a trip to India or going to embark on one, this list of India Captions and Quotes for Instagram is going to cause a lot of wanderlust! So consider yourself forewarned.

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One of the my favorite parts of this post is the Short India Captions and Quotes. This is because though brief they pack a real punch.

Trust me, to get some of these you have to have been in the country. To have walked the crowded miles.

India is India and it is an experience for everyone. Even as a local, I find myself learning new things about it.

Anyways… Here are some epic short India captions and quotes for Instagram.

1. Brb India is calling me.

2. Live your India dream.

3. India made me do it.

4. India is the place for me.

5. Sunsets are better in India.

6. Missing the Mumbai vibe.

7. Mumbai is a special place.

8. India lives in several centuries at the same time. – Arundhati Roy

9. I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. –J.R.D. Tata

10. Mumbai is the city that never sleeps.

11. The heart of India beats in Mumbai 

12. But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. – E. M. Forster

13. Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself. –Reymond Page

14. Mumbai is like Manhattan. There’s a certain pace, social life, and thrill of a professional life. – Madhuri Dixit

15. Mumbai hides all its blemishes in the night. – Alok Karkera

16. India is not a country, but a home. – Khalid Masood

17. More dreams are realized and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India – Gregory David Roberts

18. India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified. – Erin Reese

19. Everything is recycled in India, even dreams. – Shashi Tharoor

20. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai

21. India is a place where color is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in. – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

22. The world is the body and India is its life. – Khalid Masood

Sometimes, you can’t really describe the true length and breadth of the country without being verbose. A lot of people have tried.

This is a compilation of Long India Captions and Quotes that bring out the color, the pizzazz and the character of the country.

I’m sure that I have missed out on a few so I would highly appreciate it if you can drop the ones I missed in the comments below.

23. India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay. – Shashi Tharoor

24. Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner.

For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart.

‘Amore’ or ‘Pyar’ makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets. – Gregory David Roberts

25. There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colours, smells, tastes, and sounds.

It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolour. – Keith Bellows

26. [India is] the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. – Mark Twain

27. Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night. – Thoreau

28. I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on Lord Krishna and the cost of living. – James Cameron

29. India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. – Mark Twain

30. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India. – Max Muller

31. If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions have been felt. – Magith Noohukhan

These funny India captions and quotes are meant to bring a smile to your face. For many, they often evoke a sense of nostalgia too!

This is because most of the puns center around well loved objects, food and sights that we see when we travel through India or for that matter if you live here.

How many of these funny India captions and quotes that you can resonate with.

32. On a misal.

33. It’s rice to meet you.

34. India is rice.

35. Goan state of mind.

36. Goan to the beach.

37. Long time no sea.

38. Tis the season.

39. Let’s Goa to the seaside.

40. Bangalore idli-ve here.

41. India is the only country wherein the total number of engineers exceeds the number of vehicles on the road. –Nipun Varma

Have you ever heard the quote ‘Incredible India’. It was a slogan that came up a couple of years ago.

42. In India God is full of gods. –Khalid Masood

43. India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

44. In the countryside, he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beggars, touts, flower-sellers, those who watch over your shoes for a couple of weightless coins. –Don DeLillo

45. We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. – Albert Einstein

46. If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. – Romain Rolland

47. In India, even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different. – Eric Newby

48. When the land of snake charmers begins charming the world, the credit goes to its People, its Youth. – Vivek Narayan Sharma

49. After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. – W. Heisenberg

50. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. – Will Durant

51. In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood. – Shashi Tharoor

52. India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. – Will Durant

Travel India captions and quotes for Instagram are probably the ones that I really use a lot. Of course there are the captions and quotes on individual locations that really come in handy.

Take for example the Goa captions and quotes list that I use every time I head home.

Here are some of my top picks when it comes to Travel India captions and quotes.

53. India is so diverse that the language changes from state to state.

54. You gotta love the colors in every Indian city.

55. From the mountains to the coast, India has so much to explore.

56. Words fail to describe India.

57. India is a land that you just have to keep coming back to explore.

58. You could spend years and yet not cover the whole of India.

59. India is magical!

60. You can’t explore India in a week.

61. Life in India is magical.

62. Falling hard for India.

63. India will get you hooked.

64. Activate your India mode.

65. Good morning India.

66. India makes me uber happy.

67. The country may not be perfect, but India is certainly intriguing.

68. In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously. –Jerry Pinto

69. With me and India it’s all about leaving and returning. Madras is home. It’s a very complicated relationship. When you are away too long you get homesick, and when you are there too long you are sick of home. –Tishani Doshi

70. I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realize my good fortune and would never again forget it. –Tahir Shah

71. To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life. – Chris Martin

72. Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal. – Tahir Shah

73. To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

74. There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home. – Erin Reese

75. Calcutta’s the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat. – Tahir Shah

76. Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself. – Reymond Page

77. The train system in India is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you’ll never forget. – Natalie Dormer

78. Don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while? –Elizabeth Gilbert

79. In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough. – Tahir Shah

80. India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world. – Erin Reese

81. The World is my home and India is my living room. I’m independent in my living room to explore, hoping someday I will also be able to explore my own home. – Bikram Mahata

82. In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing. – Apollonius Tyanaeus

83. I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. – Goldie Hawn

India Captions And Quotes On Culture

If you have traveled through India, you will know that there are numerous cultures that mingle together. This is especially true in the big cities like Mumbai and Delhi.

It is one of the most fascinating things about the country and one that I love about it. That is why I just had to include a section about India Captions And Quotes on culture.

84. India is a cultural melting pot.

85. So many cultures, so many religions. This is India.

86. India is a world in itself.

87. India teaches me again and again, that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up. – Dena Moes

88. You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian. – Amit Kalantri

89. India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country. – Hanadi Falki

90. I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India! – Vinayak Muraleedharan

91. It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. – Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

Food is a big part of our daily lives. In fact, you will find Indian food is popular all across the world. Honestly, these Indian food quotes and captions can be used no matter where you stay!

Gotta love that butter chicken and biryani, right?

I know that I do!

Anyways. Here are some epic Indian food quotes and captions for every instance.

92. Taste the food in India

93. Relish the Indian spice.

94. Once you taste Indian food, you can never go back.

95. Indian food is exotic.

96. Indian cuisine is popular the world over.

97. Indian food is soul food. 

98. My new indulgence is Indian food.

99. Indian food is packed with flavor.

100. Indian food may be hot but damn it is good!

101. Even the spices have a story here.

102. Biryani is food for the soul.

103. You haven’t truly tasted food till you’ve spiced it up.

104. Serving up the best curry in the world.

105. The freshest ingredients are the best ingredients.

106. Indian food is comfort food.

107. Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo. – Shobhaa De

108. If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast. –Shashi Tharoor

And there you have it! These India captions and quotes are bound to inspire you to travel to India. The only problem is that India is so big, you are bound to need multiple trips actually experience this amazing country!

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152 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 152 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 152 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

152 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

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

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

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

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

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

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

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

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

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

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about.   For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

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30 Famous Inspirational Travel Quotes

Do you like travelling? Of-course, Your answer should be “Yes, I love travel very much”. So, would like some encouragement yourself with this famous inspirational travel quotes. Here is the greatest list of inspirational travel quotes. If you want to add one more, simply leave a comment.

List of Inspirational Travel Quotes

1. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharial Nehru

2. It is better to travel well than to arrive. – Buddha

3. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

4. He who does not travel does not know the value of men. – Moorish proverb 

5. All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

6. To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. – Charles Horton Cooley

7. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. – Mark Twain

8. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing. – Daniel J. Boorstin

9. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon

10. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

11. I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. – Laurel Clark

12. A wise traveler never despises his own country. – William Hazlitt

13. Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.  –  Pat Conroy

14. There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander! – Brähmann

15. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart

16. I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. – Caskie Stinnett

17 . The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine

18. I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. – Michael Palin

19. Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. – Nikos Kazantzakis

20. You get educated by traveling. – Solange Knowles

21. Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

22. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – Dagobert D. Runes

23. One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller

24. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

25. Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. – Mark Jenkins

26. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.  – Oscar Wilde

27. Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. – Rick Steves

28. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.  – James Michener

29. When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman

30. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark

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Travel Insurance for India: U.S. Visitor Requirements & Quotes

• You must have a visa and a valid passport to visit India .
• Although travel insurance isn’t required, it’s advisable to at least purchase travel medical and medical evacuation coverage because India won’t accept your U.S. health insurance .
• More comprehensive policies can also cover other travel mishaps , such as trip cancellations and delays, lost baggage and car rentals.
• According to our research, our top picks for travel insurance for India come from Seven Corners, Tin Leg, and AXA Assistance USA ( skip ahead to view these plans ).
• Costs for travel insurance vary, but you can typically find basic medical coverage for less than $1 per day .
• To view multiple plans at once and find the best coverage to suit your needs, try using an online comparison tool .

India is a vast and diverse country. Each region offers a vibrant culture and mesmerizing architecture. This enthralling country also comes with a unique set of risks, which means that buying travel insurance for India should be a top priority before departure.

Whether you’re taking a luxury train journey through a wild jungle or camel trekking in the Thar Desert, comprehensive coverage helps you manage expenses in case of emergencies or unexpected delays.

Finding the right coverage for India travel can be a complicated process. 

This guide covers critical information to help you pick an adequate policy, including:

• An overview of India travel requirements
• Typical travel insurance coverage options for India
• The cost of travel insurance for a trip to India

Our top picks for the best india travel insurance

• Seven Corners: Best Value for Robust Coverage & Medical Emergencies
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Are there covid-19 restrictions for u.s. tourists.

No, as of February 13, 2023, there are no COVID-19 restrictions for U.S. tourists.

Do I need a visa or passport to travel to India?

You need both a visa and a passport to travel to India . You can apply for an eVisa online. If you’re approved, you can travel in India for up to 60 days. Make sure to apply at least four days before you’re scheduled to arrive. To stay longer, you must apply for a standard tourist visa at the nearest Indian consulate or embassy.

Before you apply, check the expiration date on your passport . The document must be valid for at least six months after the application date. Indian immigration officials require two blank pages to accommodate visas and stamps.

Is it safe to visit India?

India can be a safe destination for savvy tourists — however, you must exercise a great deal of caution . Petty crime is common, as are scams. Female travelers must be especially careful as there have been many reports of sexual assault and violence against women, including tourists. The U.S. Department of State advises women to dress according to local custom and avoid traveling alone in India. 

There is also a chance of terrorism and civil unrest throughout India, particularly in the northeastern states, central and eastern India and areas near the Pakistan border.

Can a US citizen buy health insurance in India?

As a citizen of the US traveling to India, it is far more beneficial for you to purchase a travel insurance policy before you leave for your vacation. Doing so prepares you for early unforeseen circumstances such as delayed flights or canceled bookings. NRIs (non-resident Indians) may be able to purchase health insurance in India. Still, as U.S. travel insurance companies are fully regulated, you are far safer securing your coverage within the states.

India does not require tourists to have travel insurance . However, traveling in India can come with a significant amount of risk. A travel insurance policy covers medical care and medical evacuation, so you can move around the country with peace of mind. If you become injured or sick, you won’t be saddled with an expensive medical bill.

Travel insurance also protects you from other unexpected circumstances that could affect your trip. If a natural disaster forces you to cancel or a political protest disrupts your plans, your policy can help reduce the financial impact. 

It can also help you prepare for other risks, such as those discussed below.

Risk of pickpockets and tourist scams

Pickpockets and petty thieves run rampant in India, often targeting unsuspecting tourists. They operate in crowded tourist destinations, such as airports and famous sites like the Taj Mahal.

Tourist scams are another common occurrence in India. Scammers try to lure travelers with false promises, only to extort them for money or put them in dangerous situations. In other cases, criminals drug visitors before robbing them. Travel insurance with coverage for personal items can help pay to replace stolen items.

Risk of canceled day trips or tours

Tours and day trips are a popular way to see sights in India. Since many operators have little to no oversight, they may cancel these excursions at the last minute without reimbursing you. Certain travel insurance policies can reduce the risk of financial loss by covering nonrefundable costs for interrupted or canceled tours.

Risk of political demonstrations 

Political demonstrations in India can be large and disruptive. In some cases, they affect airlines, train lines and major roadways. When a demonstration arises before or during your trip, you may have a hard time reaching your destination. In some cases, widespread protests make it too dangerous for foreigners to visit the affected areas. A travel insurance policy can help you recover the costs of canceling the trip, rebooking flights, or making unexpected hotel stays.

Risk of severe weather conditions

Many parts of India experience severe weather at various times throughout the year. In southern India, the monsoon season often brings severe flooding; the northern part of the country sees intense dust storms. Dangerous heat waves are possible across most of the country. While you can’t predict serious weather events, you can use insurance to prevent significant financial losses if storms affect your trip.

As with any type of insurance, every plan offers different types and levels of coverage.

We break down some of the most common coverage types below.

Trip cancellation insurance

Trip cancellation coverage helps you recover prepaid, nonrefundable trip costs if you have to cancel your plans. Travel to India is expensive, especially if you’re booking popular hotels and tours. If you fall ill a week before your flight and you’re too sick to travel, insurance can ensure that you don’t lose money in the process.

Trip delay insurance

This type of insurance covers the extra expenses that arise if your India trip is held up due to circumstances beyond your control. If your connecting flight from Amsterdam to New Delhi is pushed to the next day, insurance can cover a last-minute hotel booking and taxis to and from the airport. Keep your receipts, and you might also be able to get reimbursed for meals and nonrefundable hotel stays in your final destination.

Trip interruption insurance

Trip interruption coverage kicks in if unexpected circumstances require you to cut your vacation short. As long as the reason for the interruption is covered, the policy will typically refund the non-refundable costs of the rest of the trip . It might also cover the flight back to the U.S.

Travel medical insurance

If you get hurt or fall ill while you’re exploring India — a possibility, given the country’s inconsistent safety regulations — travel medical insurance covers the costs. In most cases, you’ll need to pay the healthcare bills first and file a claim for reimbursement. Some plans will work directly with the medical provider to settle bills if you need hospitalization after an accident or a bout of dengue fever.

Medical evacuation insurance

Medical evacuation coverage pays for your transportation in case of a medical emergency. It’s critical for trips to India — healthcare facilities aren’t always available away from major cities. That means if you’re injured while trekking in the Himalayas or cruising in Kerala, you may need to be transported a long distance by air to get to a hospital. When the situation is serious enough, a medical flight back to the United States may be necessary.

These services are expensive, but evacuation coverage can take care of the bill. Make sure you choose a policy with a high limit when traveling to India, particularly if you’re planning an adventurous itinerary to rural parts of the country.

Insurance for personal items

Personal item coverage helps you pay for damaged, lost or stolen belongings. Given the risk of theft and pickpocketing in India, this type of insurance is essential. Limits can vary considerably between policies; you may need to shop around to find adequate coverage if you’re packing computers, phones and cameras.

Rental car coverage

This type of insurance pays for damage to your rental car. It’s usually offered as an add-on for an extra fee, but don’t skip it if you’re renting a car in India — road conditions and driving safety are well below U.S. standards in many areas.

Every travel insurance policy comes with exclusions, which are things the plan will not cover. For example, if your policy excludes preexisting medical conditions , it won’t pay cancellation costs if you have to cancel due to a chronic health condition.  

Standard travel insurance exclusions are:

• Pregnancy (except for complications)
• Anxiety and mental health
• Routine medical or dental procedures
• High-risk activities
• Extreme sports and professional sports
• Trips that go against medical advice
• Storms that have already been named
• Illegal activities

It’s also important to note that your policy might refuse to cover anything for which you don’t have the appropriate documentation. If you need to seek medical care, or you plan to file a claim for trip cancellation or interruption, call the provider immediately to ask about documentation requirements.

We found that travel insurance for a trip to India can cost as little as $1 per day for the most fundamental medical and medical evacuation coverage. A more comprehensive plan that covers trip cancellations and interruptions will cost around $7 to $11 per day.

To give you a better idea of how much travel insurance costs for a trip to India, we requested quotes from four leading travel insurance providers.

We used these details for all of our quotes:

• Age : 35 years old
• Destination : India
• Trip Length : 7 days
• Trip cost : $2,000
• Date: September 2024

You can see our quotes for basic travel insurance in the table below. Prices range from less than $1 per day to $6 per day .

Example Where Plan Doesn’t Reimburse the Full Trip Cost

Our quotes for policies that include trip cancellation and trip interruption coverage are in the following table. Prices range from around $7 to $11 per day .

Example Where Plan Does Reimburse the Full Trip Cost

It’s important to note that the cost of India travel insurance is different for everyone. 

Providers base your policy premium on factors such as:

• Trip duration
• Cost of the trip
• Current health insurance
• Elapsed time between policy purchase and first trip deposit

A wide range of providers offer travel insurance to India. 

These tips can help you select a plan that provides ample coverage and peace of mind:

Research your destinations.

If you’re traveling to rural parts of India, make sure your insurance policy includes a high limit for medical evacuation. That way, you’re less likely to incur high bills for medical flights.

Check emergency procedures.

Some providers deny medical claims if you fail to call the emergency assistance line before seeking help. That’s not always possible in areas of India that don’t have cell service.

Consider how you’re traveling around India.

Travel insurance policies don’t apply to every mode of transportation. If your plans include hitching a ride or renting a motorcycle in India, make sure it’s covered in case of an accident.

Examine the risk level of activities.

Read the policy exclusions carefully to ensure that your intended activities are covered.

Buy a policy as soon as possible.

By buying as soon as you book the trip, you’ll be protected for longer. Coverage usually starts from the purchase date.

Can I use my U.S. health insurance in India?

No, you cannot use most standard U.S. health insurance policies in India.

Can a U.S. citizen buy travel insurance in India?

A few insurance providers allow you to purchase travel insurance after you’ve started your trip in India. However, you may be subject to higher fees or a waiting period before you can make a claim.

Is it better to buy travel insurance from India or U.S.A.?

It’s best to buy travel insurance for India while you’re still in the United States. You can buy it from a domestic or international provider — just make sure the company is reputable and that the policy applies to American travelers.

Imogen Sharma is a freelance writer with an extensive portfolio, covering topics such as finance, business management, investing, and startups. Before becoming a full-time writer, Imogen managed high-volume fine dining restaurants in London with a knack for pricing and P&L management that contributed to sustained growth.

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