Travel Writing Quotes:

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

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Mark Twain

topic: Travel, Memorable, Carpe Diem, Solo Travel, Inspirational Adventure

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

- Paul Fussell

topic: Wise, Travel, Trying, Pathos, Great Outdoors

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.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Travel, Laughter, Journey, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

topic: Life, Travel, Differences, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

- William Least Heat-Moon

topic: Travel, Past, Journey, Costa Rica, Weary Traveler

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

- Ibn Battuta

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Adventurous, Solo Travel, Nomadic

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Soul Beauty

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

- James A. Michener

source: "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Journey Home, Inspirational Adventure Time

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Arriving, Journey And Destination, Journey Home

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

- John Steinbeck

topic: Marriage, Travel, Adventure, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Adventure

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Travel, Reality, Imagination, Travel And Tourism, My Journey

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Fun, Journey And Destination, Journey Inspirational

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

topic: Travel, Hate, Memorable, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation

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

- Mary Ritter Beard

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel, Journey Inspirational, Life Going On

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Travel, Adventure, Journey, Solo Travel, Journey And Destination

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

topic: Country, Travel, Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time, Travel And Tourism

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

- Lawrence Block

topic: Travel, Tourists, Moments, Inspirational Adventure, Travel And Tourism

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

- Anatole France

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature, Costa Rica, Nomadic

Writing and travel broaden your ***** if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Travel, Writing, Mind, Travel And Tourism, Road Trip

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

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Country, Travel, Hippie, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure Time

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

source: Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Nomad, Travel And Tourism

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

- Dagobert D. Runes

source: Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

topic: Travel, Home, People, Nomadic, Travel The World

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Country, Gratitude, Travel, Country Roads, Nomad

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel, Nomadic, Life Journey

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Memorable, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Adventure

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Country, Travel, People, South America, Inspirational Adventure

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.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

topic: Country, Travel, Heaven, Heaven And Hell, Foreign Countries

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

- Freya Stark

source: Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

topic: Art, Travel, Journey, Meaning Of Art, Inspiring Travel

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

source: Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing”, p.16

topic: Travel, Delight, Moments, Travel And Tourism, Travel Light

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ***** he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

- Mark Twain

topic: Brother, Travel, Hands, Speak Now, Supposition

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

topic: Inspiring, Travel, Men, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Country, Travel, Memories, Eat Your Heart, Inspirational Vacation

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

- Paul Fussell

topic: Wise, Travel, Joy, Pathos, Great Outdoors

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

- Rumi

topic: Travel, Optimistic, Vacation, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

topic: Travel, New Beginnings, Journey, Journey And Destination, Journey Begins

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

- Michael Palin

topic: Bugs, Antidote, Solo Travel, Inspirational Vacation, Nomadic

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Country, Travel, Memorable, Inspirational Vacation, Travel And Tourism

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

- Lin Yutang

topic: Beautiful, Travel, Home, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Vacation

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

- Danny Kaye

topic: Travel, Journey, Solo Travel, Journey And Destination, Journey Inspirational

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Writing, Important, Alive, Travel Writing

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

- Paul Fussell

topic: Liars, Fiction, Want, Travel Writing

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

- Alexander Cockburn

source: Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.95, Verso

topic: Travel, Imagination, Valleys, Travel Writing

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination