Quotes on Travel

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.