TRAVEL QUOTES VI

quotations about travel

Travel can be fun, as long as you have the right attitude and plan the trip with realistic expectations.

LEWIS WALKER

"Travel dreams 2017", Dunwoody Crier, May 16, 2017


A wise man travels to discover himself.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Fireside Travels

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

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

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Today's luxury consumer travels in a much more personalized way, taking on various travel personas depending on the trip. Knowing how to ask the right questions to get at the core of what the traveler hopes to experience and achieve is the key.

MATTHEW UPCHURCH

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


Soulful travel is the art of finding beauty even in ruins.

PHIL COUSINEAU

The Art of Pilgrimage


The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

CHINUA ACHEBE

Arrow of God

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Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

PAUL THEROUX

introduction, The Best American Travel Writing


Travel is like death in that it requires separation and, indeed, mourning. And travel by sea, unlike the far more rapid air travel, gives time for mourning, separation, and loss as one sees space slowly open between ship and shore and watches the coastline recede and eventually disappear.

PHILIP H. PFATTEICHER

Liturgical Spirituality


Travel is the soul of civilization.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

attributed, The Art of Pilgrimage

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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

attributed, The Quotable Traveler


Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven't seen.

MARK HERTSGAARD

Earth Odyssey


Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

ITALO CALVINO

Invisible Cities

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Better sit still where born, I say,
Wed one sweet woman and love her well,
Love and be loved in the old East way,
Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell,
Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles,
And to sail the thousands of watery miles
In search of love, and find you at last
On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.

JOAQUIN MILLER

Pace Implora


The soul of the journey is liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Table Talk

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I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by
When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they ... return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Travel is one of the greatest facilitators of creation, if only because it forces us to observe other ways of creating things.

BLAKE SNOW

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


Any youth who doesn't travel is like a blind person.

SEKOU CAMARA

"The Dan"


I assure you that without travel we (at least men of the arts and sciences) are miserable creatures. A man of mediocre talent will remain mediocre whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which I cannot deny that I am, without doing wrong) will go to seed if he remains continually in one place.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

letter to Leopold Mozart, September 11, 1778

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Travel is like a drug that permeates the mind with an indefinite but unusual tinge, stimulating and releasing, imparting a greater significance than they possess to the things that interest and amuse it.

OSBERT SITWELL

Discursions on Travel, Art, and Life