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.

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 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.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.

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!

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.

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