Travel
Quotes - A good traveller knows how to travel with the mind
“The
Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”
―
Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
“A
good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“No
one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his
head on his old, familiar pillow. ”
―
Lin Yutang
“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, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
“But
the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.”
―
Gwyn Thomas
“Here
today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest,
excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”
―
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Everything
will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.”
―
Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
“Ô,
Wanderess, Wanderess
When
did you feel your
most
euphoric kiss?
Was
I the source
of
your greatest bliss?”
―
Roman Payne
“That’s
the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s
somewheres, into our own nowhere.”
―
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
“The
journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's
intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.”
―
Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
“Every
hundred feet the world changes”
―
Roberto Bolaño, 2666
“I
suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home
when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the
people and places there were lost to me.”
―
Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“I
think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect
more."
(Letter
to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
―
Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to
August 1787
“Paradise
was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You
can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years,
but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged.
Home.”
―
J. Maarten Troost, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of
Fiji and Vanuatu
“I
heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“We
can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t
take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and
adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the
spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google,
check-in, and hashtag.”
―
Jeremy Glass
“You
don't even know where I'm going."
"I
don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”
―
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“The
saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then
you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.”
―
Guillermo del Toro
“Tourists
went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.”
―
Alex Garland, The Beach
“A
dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess
it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I
saw this and it mattered to me.”
―
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
“There
are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”
―
Robert Benchley, Pluck and Luck
“In
my errant life I roamed
To
learn the secrets of women and men,
Of
gods and dreams.
I've
known all the countries of our world,
I've
lived a thousand lives:
Many
lives I lived in love,
Other
lives I squandered.
For
in my life I never traveled,
All
I did was wander.”
―
Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“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, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Now,
bring me that horizon.”
―
Johnny Depp
