TRAVEL QUOTES IV

quotations about travel

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

ANITA DESAI

attributed, Constant Traveller


A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.

SAADI

attributed, Day's Collacon


If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

ALEX GARLAND

The Beach

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Travels with a donkey in the Cevenne

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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

PICO IYER

"Why We Travel"


Travel is theater: It invites us to extend our boundaries and to "play" new roles. Is that you sipping ouzo, singing fado, tasting eel, donning a caftan, riding a donkey, boarding a helicopter, ogling a kilt?

MARTY LESHNER

Cruise Travel, October 2004


Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

DAVID MITCHELL

Cloud Atlas


The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

LAO TZU

attributed, A Kind of Knowing

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Travelling enlarges our views, gives us a knowledge of men and manners, causes us to embrace the human race, as one great family, and call every child of misfortune our brother. The man who fell among thieves would have died of his wounds had not the good Samaritan been a traveller.

JOSEPH BARTLETT

Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things


Of course, even foreign places grow familiar given enough time; even novelty grows old. Some would argue that this is what makes travel pointless. And in a sense, it's true--childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one.

WENDY DALE

Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals


To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order

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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

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making


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

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness

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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

attributed, Disraeli

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New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.

TANITH LEE

The Castle of Dark

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Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.

HARVEY LLOYD

Cruise Travel, April 1985


When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Letters from a Citizen of the World

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On journeys it has happened many times before that something I especially desire withholds itself. Travel is like knowledge: much remains unknown and imperfectly seen, a situation not always remedied by checking museum hours, which are, in any case, changeable. And, too, the direct gaze, for all its virtues, can obscure: some things can simply not be seen head-on in the sun's glare.

EMILY HIESTAND

The Very Rich Hours