Travel Quotes

If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable.

~ James Salter

It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done.

~ Sunday Adelaja

And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.

~ Suzanne Joinson

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?

~ S.a. Tawks

I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.

~ S.a. Tawks

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.

~ S.a. Tawks

That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.

~ S.a. Tawks

I figured, what harm could come from a little bit of fun? Crabs. The Canadian girl gave me crabs.

~ S.a. Tawks

I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.

~ S.a. Tawks

Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either.

~ S.a. Tawks

Travel is life-changing. That's the promise made by a thousand websites and magazines, by philosophers and writers down the ages. Mark Twain said it was fatal to prejudice, and Thomas Jefferson said it made you wise. Anais Nin observed that we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. It's all true. Self-transformation is what I sought and what I found.

~ Elisabeth Eaves

There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.

~ Elisabeth Eaves

I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they’ve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.

~ Jackie Haze

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

~ Unknown

In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability – to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour – seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge – where to sleep? – has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the traveller’s precise location and welfare – and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home. Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity.

~ Dervla Murphy

I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known

~ Don George

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

~ Alain De Botton

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

~ Hannah Harding

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

~ Lillian E. Smith

You never know travel path of every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didn’t want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only “something else” worth living.

~ Jackie Haze

The sacred travel path is one’s life journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.

~ Alain De Botton

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

~ Richard Ford

Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea that there's something interesting in their lives. It's musical chairs in reverse..... All the upgrades in existence lead to the same airports and resort hotels, the same pina colada bullshit. The tourists smile at their tans and their shiny teeth and think they're happy. But the suntans hide who they really are-- salary slaves, with heads full of American rubbish. Travel is the last fantasy the 2oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.

~ J.g. Ballard

I would rather have 10,000 stories than 10,000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.

~ Daniel Roy Baron

Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross.

~ Anonymous

Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.

~ Laura Frantz

Here we are at last. The Italian proverb says “See Naples and die” but I say, see Naples and live; for there seems a great deal worth living for.

~ Arthur John Strutt

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

~ S.a. Tawks

As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him.

~ S.a. Tawks

In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us, we should treat each other therefore with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.

~ Fernando Pessoa

A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.

~ S.a. Tawks

I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff.

~ S.a. Tawks

I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man.

~ S.a. Tawks

It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.

~ S.a. Tawks

Anxiety's already tingling my skin.

~ S.a. Tawks