Quotes about traveler

Source: A Brief History of Time

Source: The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Variant: Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
Source: Desolation Angels

1972

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Aleph

Letter to Leopold Mozart (Mannheim, 2 February 1778), from The letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769-1791, translated, from the collection of Ludwig Nohl, by Lady [Grace] Wallace (Oxford University Press, 1865, digitized 2006) vol. I, # 91 (p. 164) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SGwLiCNxu7qZ5ch&id=KEgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22The+letters+of+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart,+1769-1791%22&hl=en#PRA1-PA164,M1

Lincoln Hall Speech (1879)

Source: The Man of Genius (1891), p. x.

Designing the Future (2007)

Source: Matilda

Letter to Leopold Mozart (11 September 1778), from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler (1991), trans. J. Bradford Robinson [Cambridge University Press, 1994, ], p. 12.
Variant: A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place.

Source: Twister on Tuesday

“Wisconsin: Flambeau”, p. 113.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wisconsin: Marshland Elegy," "Wisconsin: The Sand Counties" "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon," and "Wisconsin: Flambeau"

1990s, MTV interview (1994)

"The UFO Menace".
Side Effects (1980)

Source: https://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/shockingly-simple-principles-of-spiritual-awakening/

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002), p. 117

Source: The Odyssey

Source: Kristin Lavransdatter

Source: The Moonlight Sonata

July 1890, page 313
(From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series (1844) "Essay VI: Nature": "the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.")
John of the Mountains, 1938
Context: It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

dies slowly…
Muere lentamente quien no viaja, quien no lee,
quien no oye música,
quien no encuentra gracia en sí mismo.
Muere lentamente
quien destruye su amor propio,
quien no se deja ayudar...
Poem "Muere lentamente" (Dying Slowly), wrongly attributed to Pablo Neruda. See "Fake Pablo Neruda Poem Spreads on Internet" http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=325275&CategoryId=14094 by Ana Mendoza, Latin American Herald Tribune (12 January 2009).
Misattributed
Source: Selected Poems

Variant: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Source: Mostly Harmless

Source: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

"As I Please," Tribune (12 May 1944)^{http://alexpeak.com/twr/orwell/quotes/}
"As I Please" (1943–1947)

in video Meet Peter Higgs by CERN (July 2004).

Canto VIII, lines 1–6 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1878).

"Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946)

Vibe "Justin Bieber on Photo Shoots, Puberty, 2Pac & Drake" http://www.vibe.com/article/justin-bieber-photo-shoots-puberty-2pac-drake, 22 July 2010

"’I Love Above All, Russia,’ Robeson Says," Afro-American, (25 June 1949), p. 7

Chronicle of the Seeker by: Mahmud Kati

V. 219–220 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Source: The Art of War, Chapter XI · The Nine Battlegrounds

"Suzanne" - Isle of Wight performance (1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_56ep729TE - Live in London (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snMOmHzgssk
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.
You can hear the boats go by,
You can spend the night beside her,
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there,
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China.
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover.
And you want to travel with her,
And you want to travel blind,
And you know that she will trust you,
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.

"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
Context: Don't be dead or asleep or awake.
Don't be anything.
What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.

Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 15

Source: An ocean of souls

1982

1981

The Legend of the Baal-Shem (1955),1995 edition, p. 36

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

Source: Poem "The Road Not Taken"
Context: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

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.

Source: As You Like It

Gwendolen, Act II
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Source: In Watermelon Sugar

Source: Ham on Rye

Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Source: As You Like It

Source: The Namesake

Variant: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Source: Interpreter of Maladies

Source: Leaves of Grass

Source: Weaveworld

Source: Tom Sawyer Abroad

As quoted in Reporter in Red China (1966) by Charles Taylor

Source: Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

Source: The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Medium Raw (2010)
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Original: (pt) Viajar? Para viajar basta existir. [...] Para quê viajar? Em Madrid, em Berlim, na Pérsia, na China, nos Pólos ambos, onde estaria eu senão em mim mesmo, e no tipo e género das minhas sensações?

A vida é o que fazemos dela. As viagens são os viajantes. O que vemos não é o que vemos, senão o que somos.
Source: The Book of Disquiet, p. 360
Context: To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. […] Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?

Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.

Variant: Laughter is an instant vacation.

Source: The Art of Travel

Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

Source: Hamlet

Source: Of Mice and Men

Source: The Innocents Abroad

Source: The Last Olympian

Siren http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/siren-7/
From the poems written in English

Mitch All Together (2003)

Qu'un Anglais comme lui fît le tour du monde un sac à la main, passe encore; mais une femme ne pouvait entreprendre une pareille traversée dans ces conditions.
Source: Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Ch. XX: In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg

A Means for Furthering Peace (1905)

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 574
Sunni Hadith