It’s hard for me see anything to envy in most people who travel. Because deep down that is what they are doing. Fleeing themselves and the lives they’ve created. Or worse, they’re telling themselves that they’re after self-discovery, exploration or new perspectives when really they are running towards distraction and self-indulgence.
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Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven’t seen.
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I judge travel by the density of the memories it creates. The more distinctly I can recall the days, even the specific hours, of a journey, the more satisfied I am to have gone—even when, within reason, the memories are unpleasant or just bizarre.
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Wanderlust is the disease that results from being bitten by the travel bug.
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We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.
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Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
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A good traveler doesn’t know where he’s going to, a perfect traveler doesn’t know where he came from.
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Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.
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No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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It seems they go hand in hand, reading and traveling. They scratch the same itch: an impulsive, erratic, and impatient curiosity—a desire to hold the entire world before your eyes and to swallow it whole at the same time.
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Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
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Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.
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What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country… we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits.
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