“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
El Dorado.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
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Robert Louis Stevenson118
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894Related quotes
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“So much better to travel than to arrive.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"Citizens of the City of Light," p. 27
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
“I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
A comment of Einstein's recalled by John Wheeler in Albert Einstein: His influence on physics, philosophy and politics edited by Peter C. Aichelburg, Roman Ulrich Sexl, and Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1979), p. 202
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Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Steinar's wife
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
Ariel Dorfman (1942) Chilean writer
On further elaborating on his point of being displaced in “Ariel Dorfman: 'Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/09/ariel-dorfman-not-to-belong-anywhere-to-be-displaced-is-not-a-bad-thing-for-a-writer in The Guardian (2018 May 9)