Travel Quotes

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui. And meanwhile, the others are busy. They are not sitting helplessly waiting.

The goal to be reached is the mind’s insight into what knowing is. Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

The world must be all f****d up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

Love is a journey through waters and stars.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.