Top 20 Travel Quotes
Been reading many of these off & on, and wanted to compile them into one place! Hope you like them & do share your quotes too!
- “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” ~ Jack Kerouac in On The Road
- “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” ~ Dagobert D. Runes
- “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ~ Freya Stark
- “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ~ Paul Theroux
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu
- “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” ~ Susan Heller
- “Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.” ~ Mason Cooley
- “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
- “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The road is long, and in the end, the journey is the destination.” ~ from One Tree Hill
- “Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
~ Robert Frost in The Road Not Taken - “I should like to spend the whole of my in life travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.”~ William Hazlitt
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut in Cat’s Cradle
- “I never called it a “bad trip.” Sometimes other people would call it that when I told them what had happened. “Bad trip” didn’t really describe it. It wasn’t saying enough. It was saying too much. If you had a bad trip it was because you were a bad person. If you weren’t a bad person, then at the very least having a bad trip indicated that work was needed on this or that part of your head; a lack of wisdom or something like it was at the root of your bad trip.” ~ Mark Vonnegut in The Eden Express: A Memoir of Schizophrenia
- “If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belgium” ~ Movie Title
- “The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences.” ~ Chris McCandless (Into The Wild)
- “There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and the music in its roar
I love not man the less,but Nature more.”
~ Lord Byron from Childe Harold, Canto iv, Verse 178

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