Travel Quotes

Yuvali struggled to put one foot in front of the other. The long leaves of a purple-flowered bush raked her forehead. The flower emerged from bulbous green tubes, unfolding toward the sun. The petals radiated like flecks in an eye, a whirlpool, a sea-shell.” Ch.19

~ B.t. Lowry

It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone.

~ Marty Rubin

Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.

~ Leigh Ann Henion

Travel is such a wonderful experience! Especially when you forget you are traveling. Then you will enjoy whatever you see and do. Those who look into themselves when they travel will not think about what they see. In fact, there is no distinction between the viewer and the seen. You experience everything with the totality of yourself, so that every blade of grass, every mountain, every lake is alive and is a part of you. When there is no division between you and what is other, this is the ultimate experience of traveling.

~ Liezi

I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.

~ Isabella L. Bird

Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.

~ Carew Papritz

Had I crossed the passSupported by a stick,I would have spared myselfThe fall from the horse.

~ Bashō Matsuo

Everything suggests a beyond.

~ Isabella L. Bird

Experience is not necessarily accumulated over the extent of time lived. In my opinion, it is accumulated over the degree and variety of activities a person has been involved in

~ Nike Thaddeus

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

~ Susan Meiselas

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.

~ Tom Raabe

Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.

~ Carew Papritz

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

~ Carew Papritz

My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.

~ Ernest Shackleton

In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.

~ Isabella L. Bird

To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

~ Barry López

It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his car past things that happened to people, quicker than their happening.(Death of a Traveling Salesman)

~ Eudora Welty

So when people asked me why I was moving away from the city of my dreams, I asked them why I wouldn't. It's not about greener pastures. It's never been about that. All it's ever been about is exploring and falling and pulling myself back together. Every time I do, I get stronger. I get faster. I get smarter. I get sweeter, hungrier, and happier. Dreams are mobile, fate doesn't live in one city, and karma is your shadow. I was offered a career opportunity that knocked quietly. It wasn't a million dollar check on my doorstep, it was more like the passing words of a stranger at a bar that change your perspective of the world. Something clicked and I had to accept.

~ Kelton Wright

The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they’re soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

~ Dan Sofer

He didn't like to fly--the noise and vibration gave him a headache--but, as with anything new, he was excited by the strangeness of it. The disjuncture intrigued him: stepping through a door in one place, sitting still for a few hours, then stepping out a thousand miles away. It seemed to him a very American mode of travel, even more so than the car, not simply going farther faster, but eliminating any temporal experience of the journey, skipping over whole sections of the country, the sole focus on arriving, with the help of expensive and arcane technologies, at one's destination, except of course, when one didn't--a thought brought on by his own instinctive disbelief and the bumpiness of the flight.

~ Stewart O'nan

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

~ Carew Papritz

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

~ John Muir

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near...

~ Dinesh Kumar Biran

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

~ Gina Greenlee

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

~ Tawny Lara

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

~ Evelyn Waugh

... to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I paid for two seats at the back of the car to give my thighs breathing space. The gangly man sitting next to me used the extra space to spread his legs as widely as possible, leaving me squeezed once again against the window. I was livid. Months of travelling cheek-by-jowl in cars had instilled in me a new-found loathing of men’s legs, which, like air, seem constantly to expand to fill the space available. I’m amazed they’re not all buried in Y-shaped coffins.

~ Noo Saro-Wiwa

He returned to his seat and sat down; the road is so long, so long; he had to get through these spaces where stations clustered about the track amidst the black night like some black coffin set with candles. He thought that minute was flying after minute, mile after mile, everything was moving — even he was moving — but to where?(Adam)

~ Andrei Bely

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.

~ Janna Graber

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

~ Nicolas Bouvier

Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can't be foreseen.

~ L. Peat O'neil

What I’ve learned from my travels is that people are more alike than they are different. Yes, I may have a different home or lifestyle than a mom living in Shanghai, but deep down we are still mothers who hope for the best in our children. I always find so much in common with those I meet on my travels – and that provides a genuine connection that cultural differences can’t erase.

~ Janna Graber

Happily, we do the work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

~ Martha Wells

When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

~ Mary Casanova

What I’ve learned in my travels is that people are more alike than they are different. Yes, I may have a different home or lifestyle than a mom living in Shanghai, but deep down we are still mothers who hope for the best in our children. I always find so much in common with those I meet on my travels – and that provides a genuine connection that cultural differences can’t erase.

~ Janna Graber

I was scripting for a series on the Arts programme which was shown very late on a Sunday evening, and I was sent off to get the low down on several up and coming musicians who would be featured each week. To the music world, they may have been up and coming, I would have preferred them to be down and going and preferably out of range.

~ Lucinda E. Clarke

To strengthen the connection between your conscious and subconscious, is to gain access to a map and compass, as you travel through parallel worlds.

~ Kevin Michel