Quotes about travel
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“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

World

“The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.”

Esther M. Friesner (1951) American writer

Source: Nobody's Princess

World

“Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully”

Kate Spade (1962–2018) American fashion designer

Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

Thinking

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Source: Handle with Care

“Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.”

Lucy R. Lippard (1937) American art curator

Source: WhiteWalls, Vol. 36-38 (1995), p 45; Cited in: Timothy Oakes, ‎Patricia L. Price (2008). The Cultural Geography Reader. p. 343.
Source: On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place

People, Learning

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte book The Fencing Master

Source: The Fencing Master

Loneliness

“She had opened a door… and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge… Pain had made a sadist of her.”

Clive Barker book The Hellbound Heart

Source: The Hellbound Heart

Pain, Revenge

“We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

Hope

“I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Source: The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Flying

“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Way, Teachers

“My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

World, Peace, Sense, Sleep

“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Dreams

“It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Home, Courage

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

Happy, Heart Touching, Love, Gratitude

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

World, Way

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

World

“My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

Source: The Principles of Uncertainty

World, Dreams, Shoe, Dance

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: After the Quake

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

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

Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

Paul Theroux book Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Source: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Life, People, Dependency

“There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it… and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Way, Problem

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence.
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously)her first rose or if it be your wish to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly
as the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries
rendering death and forever with each breathing”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

W [ViVa] (1931) LVII

Life, Death, World, Imagination

“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary

World

“Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Surrender to the Devil

Life

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

http://uzomediangr.com/tag/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-quotes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Home, Search, Thinking

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.”

Anthony Bourdain book The Nasty Bits

The Nasty Bits (2006)

Life, World, Beauty, Change

“your lives be as full and happy as ours, and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Season, Happiness

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art
Variant: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Source: Emerson's Essays
Context: Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

Beauty, World, Beauty

“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

Source: And Only to Deceive

Time, Reading

“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love, Hell

“Every road i traveled led back to you”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.”

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

Children

“We're all travelling heavy with illusions.”

Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Time-travelers lie a lot.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

11/22/63

Lie, Time

“There comes… a longing never to travel again except on foot.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Remembering

“we travel far and fast
and as we pass through we forget
where we have been”

W.S. Merwin (1927–2019) American poet

Forgetting

“The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.”

Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 398

World, Star, Knowledge

“Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.”

J. Maarten Troost (1969) American writer

Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Flying

“For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.”

Anne Bishop book Sebastian

Source: Sebastian

Heart, Parting

“The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.”

Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)

Hunger, Learning

“Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer

Feeling

“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

1910s
Source: "The Road Not Taken", st. 4 (1916)

Age

“Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”

Shane L. Koyczan

Life

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

Kathleen Norris (1880–1966) American writer

Family, For Men, World, Home

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Section 50
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

“Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.”

Salman Rushdie book The Enchantress of Florence

Source: The Enchantress of Florence

Life

“Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

--From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Collected Poems

Sun

“Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Fear, Heart

“Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Lie, Family, Lying, Thinking

“Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn)
You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel, and wave your hand to make freaky stuff happen? (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Time, Animals

“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 book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

Idea, Memory

“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”

Terry Brooks book The Elfstones of Shannara

Source: The Elfstones of Shannara

Hurtful, Way, Hurt, Anger

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)

“Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you.

Commander Julius Root”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

War, Way

“Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?"
Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

Thinking, Time

“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

World, Light, Housing

“We couldn't understand because we were too far… and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign… and no memories.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Age, Understanding, Memory, Night

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) English critic, essayist, poet and writer

Family, Love, Home

“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

Way, Photo, Nature

“I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Sleep, Night

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

Source: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

Love, Home, Lovers, Sea

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”

Paul Theroux book The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

Parting

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental. The unfriendliness of society to his activity is difficult for the artists to accept. Yet this very hostility can act as a lever for true liberation... Both the sense of community and of security depend on the familiar. Free of them, transcendental experiences become possible.”

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) American painter

Source: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, p. 167

Hostility, Communication, Sense, Dependency

“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Way

“Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Fear, Jealousy, Dreams, Music

“An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.”

Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist

Water

“Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes”

Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer

Source: Desert Places

World

“Travelling expands the mind rarely.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

“Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Time, Waiting

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Motivational, Deep, Success, Inspirational

“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Star, Light

“Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Light

“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.”

Louise Erdrich book The Master Butchers Singing Club

Source: The Master Butchers Singing Club

Singing, Time

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.”

Washington Irving book Tales of a Traveller

Tales of a Traveler (1824), Preface, p. 7.
Source: Tales of a Traveller

Change

“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

Education

“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Fear

“To shut your eyes is to travel.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

Soul

“In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Problem

“You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

“My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.”

Lewis Buzbee (1957) American writer

Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

Family, Search

“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”

John Berryman (1914–1972) American poet

Fear

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

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”

Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943) American biographer

Literature

“This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Love

“She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Horse, Personality