TRAVEL QUOTES
quotations about travel
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
RICHARD BACH
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
WERNER HERZOG
Minnesota Declaration
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAÏS NIN
The Diary of Anaïs Nin
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Fellowship of the Ring
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"The Art of Travel", A Prairie Home Companion, July 28, 2009
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
MARK TWAIN
Innocents Abroad
Travel: some good advice, from one who knows--take twice the cash, and half the clothes.
ANONYMOUS
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
Human Nature and the Social Order
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, 20,000 Quips and Quotes
If you travel, it must be to seek difference.
KATHLEEN LEE
"Into the Heart of the Middle Kingdom"
Travel is like a university without walls.
ANITA RODDICK
Third Way, April 1996
Travel, if you would wish to acquire real worth; it is by travelling the crescent becomes a full moon.
IBN KALAKIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
He travels safe, and not unpleasantly, who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
PHILIP SIDNEY
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
People who travel only in their arm-chairs acquire notions of foreign places which reality usually upsets at the first glance.
ROBERT BELL
Wayside Pictures through France, Belgium, and Holland
We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.
STELLA BENSON
attributed, A Shadowy Third
The transformative power of travel is palpable and never has it been more important and needed.
MATTHEW UPCHURCH
"Interview: Virtuoso Travel CEO on the Future of the New Luxury Traveler", Skift, May 16, 2017
The reason for why I travel is the same for why I write -- to find the place in this world that feels most like home.
HILARY SAUNDERS
"Off The Grid: Why Do We Travel?", Paste Magazine, May 16, 2017
If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
PICO IYER
"Why We Travel"
Travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling that we are somewhere. At home, surrounded by information, by screens, I am no longer anywhere, but rather everywhere in the world at once, in the midst of a universal banality -- a banality that is the same in every country. To arrive in a new city, or in a new language, is suddenly to find oneself here and nowhere else. The body rediscovers how to look.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The Transparency of Evil
Travel is not the time to break in new shoes.
LYNNE CHRISTEN
Travel Wisdom