Travel Quotes

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.

It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!

If I'm not on a cruise, I'm either thinking about my last one or planning my next!

I heard wordOf bellied sailcloth, Creak of oars, And gold in Eastland.Then I smelledA smell remembered:Salt of sprayAnd black-pitched boat's keel.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

The map? I will first make it.

Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.

I am compelled into this country.

There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.

Keep going, because there is nothing worse in this world than to stop. Simply keep flying ❤️

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

Pack your bags and move cities and countries. Nothing will enrich you than travel does.

I live to leave.

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.

Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!

If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.

If I was ever glad to have gone, I was never glad to go.

Walk on the path of lights.

Travel is an urge best cultivated from within.

Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments.

Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.

Make a u-turn, when you see you have traveled on the wrong path.

He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!

Spain is more vegan-friendly than you've been led to believe. The truth is, most places are.

Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.

The story of life depends on how well you live your life.

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.

You have to pay attention to the road even if you don't know where you're going.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

...being a weatherman in Ireland is about the biggest scam going.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

Those who say traveling is expensive, are just ill-informed.

Nothing brings home closer than going home...

The world is full of places I haven't been.

Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy.

As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

To feel is to go to the places you were.

The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop, but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway.

No matter what we have heard or read about a country, it is our own feeling that counts.