Quotes on Travel

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.