Travel Quotes

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is to greet strangers and give them a little trophy of local space-time stuff - tell them of his difficulties in high school and put a pinch of soil in their pockets - in order to insure that the stranger shall not become an Anyone.

~ Walker Percy

It was as simply as that. And as complex.

~ Svetlana Meritt

Everywhere I travel to, there is my home.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With courage of adventure, you can overcome the culture shock in a visit to a new country.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every new journey transforms the traveler.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

~ Samuel Johnson

Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.

~ Anthony Doerr

Life is way too short to get lost, so follow the script the way it comes and keep changing the checkpoints on every page.

~ Neetesh Dixit

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

~ Bill Bryson

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

~ Bill Bryson

In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

~ Éric Weiner

The stupa is a white dome with a conical stone tower emerging from its center. There are two eyes painted on the tower, the all seeing eyes of Buddha. They're purple, and look a little sinister, like an Old Testament Buddha.

~ Joshua Isard

We dare travel to the sacred land.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What will happen if you can travel in somebody's memories??To see did he done this crime, who kill this woman, or this man, what he has done, what he is planning what happen then if we know this??

~ Deyth Banger

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.” “Don’t you like it here?” “Sure. It’s all right, but I wish I could go.” “You don’t even know where I’m going.”“I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.

~ John Steinbeck

The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.

~ Sara Sheridan

The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.’Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise

~ Sara Sheridan

I don't think someone's worth can be measured by the number of cities he visited, the number of countries he traveled to or the number of seas and oceans he crossed.One can be a traveler even by simply going to the end of the street.

~ Laure Lacornette

It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn’t matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment.

~ Sara Sheridan

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

~ Paul Theroux

The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.

~ Joanne Harris

I wish I were rich enough to endow a prize for the sensible traveler: £10,000 for the first man to over Marco Polo’s outward route, reading three fresh books a week, and another £10,000 if he a drinks a bottle of wine a day as well. That man might tell one something about the journey. He might or might not be naturally observant. But at least he would use what eyes he had, and would not think it necessary to dress up the result in thrills that never happened and science no deeper than its own jargon.

~ Robert Byron

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection....

~ Lawrence Durrell

It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she’d insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company.

~ Sara Sheridan

This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I told everyone I was gonna do this, so I gotta do it... or I will be living a life of feminist-sounding somedays. And I will be more responsible, powerful, and amazing afterward. I will be able to do anything and not self-consciously stare at elevator numbers when the doors close. I will look the other person in right the eye and nod hello.

~ Erika Lopez

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.

~ Sara Sheridan

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

~ Paul Theroux

The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm.

~ Sara Sheridan

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

~ Sara Sheridan

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.

~ Sara Sheridan

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

~ Sara Sheridan

If you go on the road hoping to find it, you might discover you've had it with you all along. That which you seek is yourself.

~ D.c. Leberknight

It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death…I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

~ William Styron

If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

~ Gloria Steinem

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

~ Marty Rubin