TRAVEL QUOTES VIII

quotations about travel

Foreign travel is like a pleasant temporary death, relieving you of responsibilities and familiar duties.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

Collected Poetry

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He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

JULIAN BARNES

Flaubert's Parrot

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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

RAY BRADBURY

attributed, Emily the Strange: Piece of Mind

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Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

ROLF POTTS

Vagabonding


No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Miss Julie

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The reason why there are so many narrow-minded people in the world is, because there is so little travelling in it.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Modern travel is like fast food: short, sharp incursions that do not weave a spell. In our age, tourism has made the planet into a uniform spectacle, and it has made us perpetual strangers wandering through an imitation of an imitation of a place we once wanted to go.

LAWRENCE OSBORNE

The Naked Tourist


Traveling is a pleasant and easy way of ridding oneself of superfluous gold.

WILLIAM BALDWIN

Ordinary Results


Travel is an every day occurrence; it's your commute to work, the weekend trip, the weddings, and the work trip that turns into a personal trip.

INDRE ROCKEFELLER

"The New Luggage Upgrade for Stylish Travel: Paravel", Forbes, May 15, 2017


Travel is ... a means of conquering space and time.

JILLY TRAGANOU

Travel, Space, Architecture


The traveler is active; he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, or experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.

DANIEL J. BOORSTIN

attributed, Voyages of Discover


Traveling thoughtfully means traveling closer to the core ... like living closer to the core. It means traveling with open eyes, taking in the culture, living like the locals do, as much as a traveler can. Thoughtful travel is not about whizzing through a place or series of places at 90 mph--the old if it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium routine. No, thoughtful travel is slowing down and experiencing the place you are in its fullest.

JANET LUHRS

The Simple Living Guide


Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

JACK KEROUAC

On the Road

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Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one's imagination.

ROSS MORLEY

attributed, Vagabonding


Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.

LAWRENCE DURRELL

Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

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I think it not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

OWEN FELTHAM

attributed, Day's Collacon


They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

HORACE

Epistles

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The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

MARSDEN HARTLEY

Somehow a Past