TRAVEL QUOTES IV

quotations about travel

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

EDWARD DAHLBERG

Reasons of the Heart

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I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014

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Travel is a discovery of the world soul of which we are a part.

THOMAS MOORE

The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life


I have been a stranger in a strange land.

BIBLE

Exodus 2:22

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The good thing about travel is that it takes you to new and different places. The bad thing about travel is that it takes you to new and different places.

DIANE

attributed, Sleepless in America


Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It

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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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It is but to be able to say that they have been to such a place, or have seen such a thing, that, more than any real taste for it, induces the majority of the world to incur the trouble and fatigue of travelling.

FREDERICK MARRYAT

A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions


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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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

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Strong and content I travel the open road.

WALT WHITMAN

Song of the Open Road

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

HARVEY LLOYD

Cruise Travel, April 1985


All our journeys are rhapsodies on the theme of discovery. We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart. The bittersweet truth about travel is embedded in the word, which derives from the older word travail, itself rooted in the Latin tripalium, a medieval torture rack.

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


Every mile of travel is like the disinterment of a buried city.

ANONYMOUS

Appleton's Journal, January-June 1878


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

LAO TZU

attributed, A Kind of Knowing

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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

JACK KEROUAC

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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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I don't keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don't travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

ALEX GARLAND

The Beach

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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

THOMAS FULLER

The Holy State and the Profane State

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