TRAVEL QUOTES II
quotations about travel
Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in traveling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we'd otherwise seldom have cause to visit.
PICO IYER
"Why We Travel"
Travel is like life in this, at least, that a congenial companion divides the troubles and doubles the joys. To please one's self is so much harder than to be pleased by another; and when it comes to doubt and difficulty, there are drawbacks to being one's own guide, philosopher, and friend.
PERCIVAL LOWELL
Atlantic Monthly, January 1891
For always roaming with a hungry heart,
Much have I seen and known.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Ulysses
He who will travel far spares his steed.
JEAN RACINE
Plaideurs
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Ulysses
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
IZAAK WALTON
The Compleat Angler
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
MARK TWAIN
Tom Sawyer Abroad
You have to travel, keep on the move. You have to cross oceans, cities, continents, latitudes. Not to acquire a more informed vision of the world ... but in order to get as near as possible to the worldwide sphere of exchange, to enjoy ubiquity, cosmopolitan extraversion, to escape the illusion of intimacy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Cool Memories
He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Travel is like the high drama of youth. It's the best and worst at the same time. One minute you are flung to the depths of despair, the next, you feel the giddy, exaggerated joy of an adolescent. For me, it had been a chance to make rash decisions, to take wild risks, to lose everything knowing I'd still have plenty of time to earn it all back.
WENDY DALE
Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals
Adventurous travel is like a virus for many people ... Once they've been to some far-away destination completely on their own ... it's often as if a switch has been flipped. They've caught the travel bug, and from that moment on they are constantly thinking about their next trip.
BARRY KOOIJMANS
attributed, The Experience Economy
There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyage, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.
DANIEL HANDLER
as Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
Many a man who has gone but a few miles from home, understands human nature better, detects motives and weighs character more sagaciously, than another who has travelled over the known world, and made a name by his reports of different countries.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Self-Culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
SENECA THE YOUNGER
Epistolae Ad Lucilium
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR.
Cat's Cradle
To be a good traveller ... a sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.
HENRY T. TUCKERMAN
"The Philosophy of Travel", The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, May 1844
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Dodsworth
To travel is to live.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
The Fairy Tale of My Life
My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.
DIANE ARBUS
attributed, The Quotable Traveler
Travel, then, is a voyage into that famously subjective zone, the imagination, and what the traveler brings back is -- and has to be -- an ineffable compound of himself and the place, what's really there and what's only in him.
PICO IYER
"Why We Travel"