Travel
Quotes - Travel far enough, you meet yourself
“Not
all those who wander are lost.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“The
world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
―
St. Augustine
“Why
do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you
came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you
differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never
leaving.”
―
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
“The
journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
―
Lao Tzu
“Books
are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the
journey. They are home.”
―
Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
“Wherever
you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
―
Anita Desai
“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, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“A
good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
―
Lao Tzu
“It
is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters,
in the end.”
―
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“The
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having
new eyes.”
―
Marcel Proust
“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 in the Cévennes
“I
am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be
a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good
books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see,
it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get
mad with anger.”
―
Simone de Beauvoir
“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, On the Road
“I
address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers,
adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
―
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“We
travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
―
anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
“Now
more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life,
that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
―
Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
“Travel
far enough, you meet yourself.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“The
traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
―
G.K. Chesterton
“I
have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like
people or hate them than to travel with them.”
―
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
“All
that is gold does not glitter,
Not
all those who wander are lost.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
