Travel Quotes

(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my paren...

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sen...

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in ...

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a heada...

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many...

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be dec...

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are d...

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of ...

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativi...

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is im...

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way...

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg...

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me ...

Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel ...

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we sta...

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my bo...

The journey not the arrival matters.

The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, conta...

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, a...

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don'...

What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What p...

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swi...

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign ...

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously...

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame...

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. So...

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only...

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last ...

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business...

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose th...

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw com...

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentra...

These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on t...

There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the ...

The few times I said to myself anywhere: ‘Now that’s a nice spot for a permanent home,’ I would imme...

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live...

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is p...

Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is ...

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he ...

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals...

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined i...

Such were our minor preparations for the journey, but above all we laid in an ample stock of good-hu...

There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith....

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it beco...

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are s...

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she t...

Constant comparisons are the stamp of the foreigner; one continually translates manners and customs ...

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. T...

His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, inde...

THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind ...

When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to ho...

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I ...

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a...

Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United St...

It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landloc...

The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one ca...

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such ...

She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for...

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train. I am not inspired; nothing so uncomfortable as that. I...

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest?'Tis that every mother's sonTravail...

The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to...

Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly...Where be bonds to bind the free?All ...

All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new...

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

At the end of hours of train-dreaming, we may feel we have been returned to ourselves - that is, bro...

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home w...

Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hat...

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up ...

If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surpris...

... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor...

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small u...

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel t...

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it wei...

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then w...

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than m...

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at tim...

Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a pla...

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

Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accompli...

There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally ...

At the top of the slope on the perimeter of the site, overlooking six lanes of motorway, is a diner ...

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to ...

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