Travel
Quotes - Travel brings wisdom only to the wise
“Some
beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
―
Erol Ozan
“to
travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“I wandered
everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world
was on my side.”
―
Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
“...there
ain't no journey what don't change you some.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“There’s
something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no
destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to
leave.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great
Perhaps
“We
wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended
another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth
sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our
ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are
scattered.”
―
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“There
are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
―
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
“If
you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the
people, you might better stay home.”
―
James A. Michener
“See
the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Cities
were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler.
Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or
dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual
to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only
through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where
we are rejected.”
―
Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
“People
do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life
which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to
occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though
they were traveling abroad.”
―
Marcel Proust
“We
travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We
travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our
newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our
ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are
differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again-
to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
―
Pico Iyer
“The
journey itself is my home.”
―
Matsuo Basho
“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? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew,
the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly
grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything
once.”
―
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Ô,
Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.”
―
Roman Payne
“We
may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
―
John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
“Travel
brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than
ever.”
―
Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
“Make
voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.”
―
Tennesse Williams, Camino Real
“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, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we
imagine of it.”
―
Cesare Pavese
“No
matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.”
―
Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi
“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
