Traveler Quotes

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Tourists see, and travelers seek.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport.

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

We're all travelers, all sojourners.

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives.

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return