Travel Quotes

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.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far fro...

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain t...

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains an...

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by ...

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and bein...

This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving f...

Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overa...

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched o...

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations ...

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You...

Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagin...

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to ...

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

Outside the window, there slides past that unimaginable and deserted vastness where night is coming ...

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to liv...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's own experiences so they ...

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and deman...

O enchanted land of my childhood, a cultural petri dish from which regularly issues forth greatness....

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wis...

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city tr...

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the oce...

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn'...

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France...

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far a...

Looking at these photographs, I know that I will never understand the world I live in or fully know ...

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu...

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Adventure is worthwhile.

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely w...

Paris is always a good idea.

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first i...

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this o...

To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own...

Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight....what instruction he should give his fift...

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balmines...

I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy f...

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

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favou...

I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in th...

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as ...

It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind th...

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger line...

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains ...

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles liter...

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick o...

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is t...

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villa...

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people a...

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, b...

The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it.

[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only peopl...

The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is...