Travel Writing Quotes

Driving down deserted early morning roads. Round and round. Round downtown. Through naked streets. Lips pursed on two litre bottles of beer, but pursuing the lips of freedom's night. Swapping cars. Winding up at karaoke bars or Bolsi- the best place in town. For the food. For the folk. For the service. For the crema de papaya. And for that late night dawn's whiskey coffee.

~ Harry Whitewolf

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Define your path and travel on this path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, without limits--the whole world. This longing will always be great, far greater than any satisfaction to be had by attaining what is desired. Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.

~ Judith Schalansky

A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everywhere you travel to, be fully there.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff of daydreams, borne of long, icy Canadian winters. At age 30, I felt I already knew my priorities, talents and limitations. The year in Africa forced me to question all of these assumptions.

~ Jacqueline L. Scott

Find your path in life and travel on it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

~ Gerry Abbey

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

~ Gerry Abbey

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

~ Gerry Abbey

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

~ Gerry Abbey

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

~ Gerry Abbey

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

~ Gerry Abbey

Every body has a unique path to travel.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.

~ Gerry Abbey

And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with a main street and a railway station, and people with dogs and electric lights it was near enough to the end of the earth to give me the impression that I was a solitary explorer in a strange land. That illusion (which was an illusion in the South Pole and at the headwaters of the Nile) was enough of a satisfaction to me to make me want to go forward.

~ Paul Theroux

It is a place that 'grows upon you' every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it. There are the most extraordinary alleys and by-ways to walk about in. You can lose your way (what a comfort that is, when you are idle!) twenty times a day, if you like; and turn up again, under the most unexpected and surprising difficulties. It abounds in the strangest contrasts; things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful, and offensive, break upon the view at every turn.

~ Charles Dickens

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

~ Paul Theroux

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

~ Alfred Zappala

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

~ Pete Mccarthy

A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently.

~ Roxanne Reid

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat withGod and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple coresthat I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them becometrees? Few boys or men had ever asked me out. I told myself that itwas because I was almost 6-feet tall. Was that true or was there somethinghumbling I needed to know?

~ Kristine K. Stevens

Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

~ Tahir Shah

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All other colours - even purple and black - were shades of green. Light and shade were degrees of green. Greenness, here, was less a colour than a colonising impulse. Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so. Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.

~ Geoff Dyer

...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam, at present, is a pretty girl with her face pressed up against the window of the dance hall, waiting to be invited in; Iceland is the mystic poet in the corner, with her mind on other things. Argentina longs to be part of the world it left and, in its absence, re-creates the place it feels should be its home; Paraguay simply slams the door and puts up a Do Not Disturb sign. Loneliness and solitude, remoteness and seclusion, are many worlds apart.

~ Pico Iyer

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

~ Eugene Linden

You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is...frozen.

~ Pico Iyer

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

~ John Steinbeck

You have to taste a culture to understand it.

~ Deborah Cater

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

~ Deborah Cater

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

~ Jack Kerouac

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

~ Frances Mayes

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).

~ Jack Kerouac