Travel Quotes

"People don't take trips – trips take people."

John Steinbeck

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

John Steinbeck

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

Susan Sontag

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."

Anatole France

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."

Francis Bacon

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself home."

Matsuo Bashō

"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow."

Anita Desai

"There is no religion greater than wandering."

Rahul Sankrityayan

"The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end."

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves."

Pico Iyer

"I set out alone, having neither fellow-traveller in whose companionship I might find cheer, nor caravan whose part I might join."

Ibn Battuta

"I have not told half of what I saw."

Marco Polo

"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."

Mark Twain

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."

Jack Kerouac

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

Jack Kerouac

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."

Paulo Coelho

"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."

Paulo Coelho

"I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

Mary Anne Radmacher

"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."

Miriam Beard

"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time."

Bill Bryson

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."