TRAVEL QUOTES V

quotations about travel

Every mile you travel, is like the one left behind.

LES HUGHES

A Young Australian Pioneer


For many of us, change is the biggest motivation for travel. We have a need for novel scenery, routine, weather or even people.

BLAKE SNOW

"Off The Grid: Why Do We Travel?", Paste Magazine, May 16, 2017


You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.

TANITH LEE

The Castle of Dark

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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Left Hand of Darkness

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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

TERRY PRATCHETT

A Hat Full of Sky


Travel is like a game; there is always gain or loss, and mostly from the unexpected side; you receive more or less than you hope for; you can, with impunity, loiter along for a while, then you are again obliged to gather yourself up a moment. For natures like mine, that like to establish themselves firmly and hold fast to things, a journey is invaluable; it animates, instructs and cultivates.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

letter to Friedrich Schiller, October 14, 1797

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When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

As You Like It

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Travel not too fast, if you would learn.

PETER RAMUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making


The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristics, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

ARNOLD BENNETT

attributed, Voyages of Discovery

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A man who has travelled and seen the world, brings all countries to his fireside.

GEORGE REDFORD

attributed, Day's Collacon


On journeys it has happened many times before that something I especially desire withholds itself. Travel is like knowledge: much remains unknown and imperfectly seen, a situation not always remedied by checking museum hours, which are, in any case, changeable. And, too, the direct gaze, for all its virtues, can obscure: some things can simply not be seen head-on in the sun's glare.

EMILY HIESTAND

The Very Rich Hours


To me, travel is a great way of bringing in fresh ideas. Since nature is my muse, I get bigger and better ideas when I see more of the world.

RANGA VOONA

"PhotoSparks", YourStory, May 6, 2017


Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country.

ANATOLE BROYARD

attributed, Voyages of Discovery


The future of luxury travel revolves around the fluidity of the digitally-connected consumer mindset, who is comfortable fluctuating between a wide spectrum of accommodations and experiences depending on the context.

GREG OATES

"Interview: Virtuoso Travel CEO on the Future of the New Luxury Traveler", Skift, May 16, 2017


New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else -- above all, a travel bureau -- arrange everything before-hand?

RICHARD ALDINGTON

Death of a Hero

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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.

J. G. BALLARD

Millennium People

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A wise man travels to discover himself.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Fireside Travels

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