February 5, 2017

77 Travel Quotes That Will Give You The Wanderlust

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  1. “It was only when I started traveling that I finally met my life’s best friend, what a surprise to find that I had been there all along.” Patrick Shelley
Holidays under parasol at Andaman Sea
  1. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin

 

  1. “Travel is like adultery: ‘One is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live…in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’” Anatole Broyard

 

  1. “We travel not to escape life, but, for life not to escape us” Anonymous
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  1. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine
  1. “Wanderlust, the very strong or irresistible impulse to travel, is adopted untouched from the German, presumably because it couldn’t be improved upon. Workarounds like the French passion du voyage don’t quite capture the same meaning. Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly; it’s something more animal and more fickle – something more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in life. We don’t need words like worklust or homemakinglust. But travel? Elisabeth Eaves

 

  1. “I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — 8. Americans and Europeans — come back and go, “Ohhhh.” And the lightbulb goes on.” Henry Rollins

 

  1. “I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be.” John Cheever

 

  1. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” Ray Bradbury

 

  1. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” Paul Theroux

 

  1. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” Pico Iyer

 

Kerkyra Town in Corfu at sunset
  1. “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

 

  1. “Now take the traveler and the tourist the essential difference is, the traveler don’t know where he’s going and the tourist don’t know where he is” David Lee Roth – Song: Lands Edge – Album: Your Filthy Little Mouth

 

  1. “Hiking – I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, “A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.” John Muir

 

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

 

  1. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” Glenn Clark

 

  1. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” Andrew Zimmern

 

  1. “There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.” Chuck Palahniuk

 

Malta at night
  1. “Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” Cesare Pavese

 

  1. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson

 

  1. “If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.” Elizabeth Gilbert

 

  1. “Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” John Berger

 

  1. “All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet’s hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man’s way of heading home.” Paul Theroux

 

  1. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” Anthony Bourdain

 

  1. “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” Pico Iyer

 

  1. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” Mark Twain

 

  1. “No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars – bills you’ve saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you’ve done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.” Mary Karr

 

  1. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu

 

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  1. “Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien

 

  1. “No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Lin Yutang

 

  1. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” Mary Anne Radmacher

 

  1. “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. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” Terry Pratchett

 

  1. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” Anderson Cooper

 

  1. “The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a fucking tourist.” Guillermo del Toro
  1. “Perhaps one day, tired of circling the world, I’ll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes, if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.” Che Guevara

 

  1. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” Aldous Huxley

 

  1. “It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.” Cheryl Strayed

 

  1. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” Herman Melville

  1. “Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again – in pantomime.” Wally Byam

 

  1. “Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before.” Dalai Lama

 

  1. “The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere” Geoff Dye

 

  1. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” Bill Bryson

 

  1. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Ibn Battuta
  1. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” Tim Cahill
  1. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” Sir Richard Burton

 

  1. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustave Flaubert
  1. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau
  1. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Freya Stark
  1. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain
  1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide
Rome
  1. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” Samuel Johnson
  1. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” Anonymous
  1. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury
  1. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” Eugene Fodor
  1. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” James Michener
  1. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” John Steinbeck
  1. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” Clint Borgen
  1. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
  1. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” Lawrence Block
  1. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance.” Cesare Pavese
  1. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” Babs Hoffman
  1. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” Antoine de St. Exupery
  1. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” Shirley MacLaine
  1. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” Caskie Stinnett
sunset in the sea
  1. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
  1. “I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.” John Steinbeck
  1. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Neale Donald Walsch
  1. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” Alan Keightley
  1. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller
  1. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag
  1. “Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is “Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.” Nick Miller
  1. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” Wendell Berry
  1. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” Chief Seattle

Or the travelers creed – Take only photographs, leave only footprints.

  1. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” Robert Frost

 

  1. “Travel far enough to meet yourself” Cloud Atlas
  1. “Jobs fill your pocket, adventure fills your soul” Jaime Lyn Beatty

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