quotations about travel
Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
CATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
In travelling by land, there is a continuity of scene, and a connected succession of persons and incidents, that carry on the story of life, and lessen the effect of absence and separation.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
JULIAN BARNES
Flaubert's Parrot
Travelling is an excellent means of living in idleness; we acquire by it a kind of knowledge which is not always beneficial, and estrange ourselves from our daily avocations to partake liberally of the vices and pleasures of other people.
T. SMITH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Traveling thoughtfully means traveling closer to the core ... like living closer to the core. It means traveling with open eyes, taking in the culture, living like the locals do, as much as a traveler can. Thoughtful travel is not about whizzing through a place or series of places at 90 mph--the old if it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium routine. No, thoughtful travel is slowing down and experiencing the place you are in its fullest.
JANET LUHRS
The Simple Living Guide
Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
JACK KEROUAC
On the Road
Travel is like love, involving all its possible phases--its approaches, its games, its crystallisations, or its claps of thunder, even to the point of temporal disorientation or spatial displacement, from a change of place to the embrace of a new and totally different destination, as if in the bodily form of a woman met by chance, through whose union a masterpiece is accomplished.
JEAN CASSOU
attributed, The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World
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
Travel is an every day occurrence; it's your commute to work, the weekend trip, the weddings, and the work trip that turns into a personal trip.
INDRE ROCKEFELLER
"The New Luggage Upgrade for Stylish Travel: Paravel", Forbes, May 15, 2017
The real voyage of discovery ... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
The Maxims of Marcel Proust
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
HORACE
Epistles
Foreign travel is like a pleasant temporary death, relieving you of responsibilities and familiar duties.
ROBINSON JEFFERS
Collected Poetry
Traveling is a pleasant and easy way of ridding oneself of superfluous gold.
WILLIAM BALDWIN
Ordinary Results
Modern travel is like fast food: short, sharp incursions that do not weave a spell. In our age, tourism has made the planet into a uniform spectacle, and it has made us perpetual strangers wandering through an imitation of an imitation of a place we once wanted to go.
LAWRENCE OSBORNE
The Naked Tourist
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
PUBLIUS SYRUS
Moral Sayings
I think it not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
OWEN FELTHAM
attributed, Day's Collacon
Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one's imagination.
ROSS MORLEY
attributed, Vagabonding
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader