Travel Quotations
I've compiled some of my favorite travel quotations from various well-know bygone and contemporary travel writers that I often recite to myself during a trip or before I set out.
Lao Tsu
"A good traveler
has no fixed plans,
and is not intent
on arriving."
Robert Louis Stevenson
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere,
but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to
move.”
S i r Richard Francis Burton
“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.”
A l d o u s Huxley
“To travel
is to discover
that everyone is wrong
about other countries.”
C h u c k Thompson
“No place is ever as bad
as they tell you it’s going to be.”
Mark T w a i n
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.”
H e n r y Miller
“One’s destination is never a place,
but a new way of seeing things."
"When you travel often you will be addicted to it f o r e v e r."
R a y Bradbury
“Half the fun of the travel
is the esthetics of l o s t n e s s."
Louis L'amour
“Too often. . .
I would hear men boast
of the miles covered that day,
rarely of what they had seen.”
Bill B r y s o n
“To my mind,
the greatest reward and luxury of travel
is to be able to
experience everyday things
as if for the first time,
to be in a position
in which
almost nothing
is so familiar it is taken for granted."
John M u i r
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
Paul T h e r o u x
"Travel is glamorous
only in retrospect."
Antoine de St. E x u p e r y
“He who would travel happily
must travel light.”
Douglas Coupland
“Adventure without risk
is Disneyland."
Herman Melville
“It is not down in any map;
true places never are.”
G.K. Chesterton
"The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see."
Jack Kerouac
"The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view."
"I was surprised, as always,
by how easy the act of leaving was,
and how good it felt.
The world was suddenly rich with possibility"
"Houses are full of things that gather dust."
"Because in the end,
you won’t remember the time you spent
working in the office or mowing your lawn.
Climb that goddamn mountain."
W a l t Whitman
“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else,
can travel that road for you,
You must travel it for yourself.”
