Travel Quotes

"What gives value to travel is fear."

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

"Journeys are the midwives of thought."

Alain de Botton

"Travel is intensified living – maximum thrills per minute and one of the last great sources of legal adventure."

Rick Steves

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."

Lawrence Durrell

"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, he travels the fastest who travels alone."

Rudyard Kipling

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

Herman Melville

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe."

Jules Verne

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

Lin Yutang

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

Hilaire Belloc

"One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself."

William Hazlitt

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."

Danny Kaye

"If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can."

Anthony Bourdain

"Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life."

Michael Palin

"The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences."

Chris McCandless

"I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed."

Cheryl Strayed

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view."

Edward Abbey

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Robert Frost

"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me."

"I am a part of all that I have met."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore."

Lord Byron

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky."

John Masefield

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors."

Terry Pratchett

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought."

Matsuo Bashō

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

J. R. R. Tolkien