Travel Quotes

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor as of roses preserved between the pages of a book, their significance long forgotten. The tongue of the road gobbled me up and I allowed myself to sink like a tasty mouthful all the way to the bottom of a marvelous, rejuvenating vacuity. Later, it would occur to me it’s the emptiness we mistakenly call Innocence.

~ Sol Luckman

I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.

~ Michael Jacobs

More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies and minds. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. I quietly thank this ancestor of mine for surviving the trip so that I could one day return.

~ Raquel Cepeda

Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn -- can all act as touchstones when least expected.

~ Andrew Mccarthy

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

~ Brian Selznick

Well, we're originally from Glace Bay.Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. Tell me all about it, dear.

~ Beatrice Rose Roberts

Not all those who wander are lost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

~ Marcel Proust

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

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

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

~ Judith Thurman

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

~ Gustave Flaubert

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...

~ Jack Kerouac

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. 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 everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

~ Bill Bryson

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

~ Ma Jian

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

~ Neil Gaiman

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

~ Roman Payne

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

~ Pat Conroy

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

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

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

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

~ Gustave Flaubert

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

~ John Steinbeck

Self-consciousness kills communication.

~ Rick Steves

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

~ Ryū Murakami

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

~ Mark Twain

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

~ Anthony Bourdain

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

~ Colum Mccann

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

~ Seneca

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

~ Robert W. Service

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

~ Erol Ozan

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

~ Robert Penn Warren