Travel Quotations
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
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 eveything.
Bill Bryson
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
Lord Byron
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Travellers never think that THEY are the foreigners.
Mason Cooley
Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.
Ralph Crawshaw
Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.
Michael Crichton
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Edward Dahlberg, Reasons of the Heart, "On Futility" (1965)
The journey not the arrival matters.
T. S. Eliot
Two roads diverged in a woods, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
If an Ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a Horse.
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, 1732
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 traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
Paul Fussell
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt, "On Going a Journey," Table Talk, 1822
Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore... unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible... it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.
Ferdinand Magellan
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
Peter Mathissen
It is not down in any map; true places never are
Herman Melville
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
George Moore
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which i cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.
Muhammed
Throw your dreams into space like a kite and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
Travelling 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
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese
Ah, if I had known this was my last time here I would have stayed a little longer - savored it a little more.
Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey
A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
Moslih Eddin Saadi
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Susan Sontag
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, Travels with a Donkey, 1879
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
Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.
Rick Steves
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.
Caskie Stinnett
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux, Observer (London, 7 Oct. 1979)
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
Paul Theroux
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost
J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
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, Innocents Abroad
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
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step
Lao Tzu
A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
Lin Yutang
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang
To see once is worth more than hearing a hundred times.
African Proverb
Walking ten thousand miles of world is better than reading ten thousand scrolls of books.
Chinese Proverb
Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
Italian Saying
The Journey Is The Reward.
Taoist Proverb
Venture all; see what fate brings.
Vietnamese Proverb