Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustave Flaubert

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Gustave Flaubert

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

John Dryden

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

John Masefield

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

John Lubbock

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

John Lindsay

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

Jimmy Cliff

I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

Judith Thurman

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Judith Viorst

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Joseph Conrad

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

Joseph Conrad

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

Laurel Lea

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

John Keats

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Juliette Binoche

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Julian Smith

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world.

Joshua Reynolds

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye...

Josh Billings

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.

K. D. Lang

Traveling renews you.

Maria Mitchell

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

Maria Mitchell

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Paul Theroux

In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

Paul Theroux

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

Paul Theroux

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

Paul Theroux

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

Paul Theroux

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Paul Theroux

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

Paul Theroux

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Paul Theroux

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

Paul Theroux

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Paul Theroux

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Paul Theroux

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

Paul Theroux

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.