Journey Travel Quotes

#1. You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step. #Quote by Hannah Harding

#2. You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey
makes its own map across your heart. #Quote by Sharon Shinn

#3. If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey. #Quote by Earl Wilson

#4. If you want to make the most of travel to Russia, it is better to leave tight plans and preconceptions behind and just enjoy the journey. #Quote by Tim Cope

#5. I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to
and that is what adventures are all about. #Quote by Trina Schart Hyman

#6. Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. #Quote by Antonio Porchia

#7. Much of what we acquire in life isn't worth dragging to the next leg of our
journey. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far. #Quote by Gina Greenlee

#8. Travellers can go out into the world with their devices and prejudices intact to smooth their journeys. Yet, etymologically, a traveller is the one who suffers - or at least, one who works (travail). The traveller forgets she's going home, and forgets herself, too. #Quote by Lara Prior-Palmer

#9. It's not how far you've come that matters. It's where you've come from. #Quote by Alastair Reynolds

#10. I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. #Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

#11. There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot. #Quote by Edwin Mullins

#12. Travel is a worthwhile voyage. #Quote by Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. #Quote by Tahir Shah

#14. Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey. #Quote by Henry David Thoreau

#15. My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive. #Quote by Marty Rubin

#16. In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon. #Quote by Peter Nichols

#17. I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify. #Quote by Hannah Harding

#18. For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice ... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey. #Quote by Wilfred Thesiger

#19. There ain't no journey what don't change you some. #Quote by David Mitchell

#20. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. #Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can't compare them, can't replace, can't repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes. #Quote by Riana Ambarsari

#22. There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the future with an eager heart... #Quote by H.V. Morton

#23. Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey. #Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#24. For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. #Quote by Tahir Shah

#25. The idea and experience of travel can mean many things: it involves movement of some kind, sometimes through unknown places, at other times just between home and the world. Journeys can also be inward, marking rites of passage or a growth into a new dimension. We travel in search of profit, pleasure or curiosity, to labour and survive, to flee from tyranny or sorrow, and into real and imagined utopias. #Quote by Teju Behan

#26. Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians
with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds
project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one. #Quote by Bruce Chatwin

#27. They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey. #Quote by Cormac McCarthy

#28. The sky is the limit. I'm just following where life takes me. It's been an incredible journey. #Quote by Christina Aguilera

#29. Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together. #Quote by Lynne Rae Perkins

#30. It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house. #Quote by Umberto Eco

#31. It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#32. Glasgow is more than body and more than head; She is both head and body. Her air of independent and self-contained metropolitanism - different from, and balancing, that of London - is the first thing that strikes the stranger who visits her after seeing the English provincial cities. And though most of the human elements of this metropolitanism [have been drawn from all Scotland, from Ireland, from England, and even from the Continent and Judaea, Glasgow is vitally self supporting to a greater extent than any other very large city; and while, by means of trade, travel, and intellectual sympathy, the sphere of her civic interests is in actuality the whole world, in immediate appearance it is frontiered by the city's wide boundaries. #Quote by William Power

#33. Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel. #Quote by Denis Waitley

#34. A shared vision driven by core values is a powerful alchemy. #Quote by Colleen Mariotti

#35. Be Happy and Positive all will come Good in Time. #Quote by Jan Jansen

#36. (Official Interdimensional Travel Observation #2: you'd think that meeting yourself in another dimension would cause a total freak-out of the infinite order, pants-pissing, screaming, etc. But it's the total opposite: weirdly calming. Like "Hey bro, I know you! Let's go get a beer.") But #Quote by Rob Dircks

#37. I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. #Quote by George Carlin

#38. With the e-reader, the whole book was on
the same virtual page. One could not feel the depth of the pages on the left side increase as those of the right side diminished, the
gradual progression from beginning to middle to end, the sense of where one stood in the journey of the story. #Quote by Daniel Seltzer

#39. Rhythms appear in the ways flowers grow, water flows, the earth moves around the sun, the moon moves through their dreams, and thoughts travel within their minds. #Quote by Blue Balliett

#40. Invitations to travel are like dancing lessons from God. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#41. In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers. #Quote by Italo Calvino

#42. Instead of seeing life as a journey, see it as though you've arrived... #Quote by Lenita Vangellis

#43. Once certain of arriving, why hurry on the journey so fast? #Quote by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

#44. The one who doesn't travel, does not live. #Quote by Petar II Petrovic Njegos

#45. Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world. #Quote by Guy Laliberte

#46. When evening in the Shire was grey
his footsteps on the Hill were heard;
before the dawn he went away
on journey long without a word #Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

#47. When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures it has engendered, and the extraordinarily effective teleonomic performances of living beings from bacteria to man, one may well find oneself beginning to doubt again whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at random. [Nevertheless,] a detailed review of the accumulated modern evidence [shows] that this conception alone is compatible with the facts. #Quote by Jacques Monod

#48. The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living. #Quote by Christina Baldwin

#49. His mouth captured hers with a strong, soft heat and Celine discovered something far sexier than this man's voice or his body. His kiss. She never had the chance to think of a protest. To think at all. She had been kissed before, but never like this. It was neither awkward and teasing nor forceful and overpowering, but long, slow, confident, and devastating. It was as if he were binding them together, deftly drawing her soul into his. #Quote by Shelly Thacker

#50. [F]inding the end of the path [is] not quite as important as the journey to getting there. #Quote by Carrie Ryan

#51. I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year. #Quote by Anatoli Boukreev

#52. A helpful image to express this sort of thing is a wheel with spokes centered on a single hub. The hub of the wheel is God; we the spokes. Out on the rim of the wheel the spokes are furthest from one another, but at the center, the hub, the spokes are most united to each other. They are a single meeting in the one hub. The image was used in the early church to say something important about that level of life at which we are one with each other and one with God. The more we journey towards the Center the closer we are both to God and to each other. The problem of feeling isolated from both God and others is overcome in the experience of the Center. This journey into God and the profound meeting of others in the inner ground of silence is a single movement. Exterior isolation is overcome in interior communion. #Quote by Martin Laird

#53. Oh, I can picture myself rattling along Route 66 on that thing, headphones on, singing along to ZZ Top's 'Sharp Dressed Man' or the opening line from 'Born to be Wild' by Steppenwolf - 'Get your motor running ... ' The trike brings out that in all of us, which is no bad thing. Forget Viagra, get yourself a trike! #Quote by Billy Connolly

#54. But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had entered the rhythm of his life, the cycle of arrival, creation, and obliteration. Like sleeping, waking and stretching, or eating, digesting and excreting, the cycle sang in harmony with the blood in his veins and the breath in his lungs. He learned to disdain the overlong sojourn and the procrastinated departure, for they were the progenitors of complacent routine, to be shunned at all costs. The journey
chanced, unplanned, solitary
was the thing to relish.
Now, however, his old way of life was being threatened. The agreeable neighborhood and the solidity of the long, black wall were reawakening in him the usual sources of human sorrow: a yearning for permanence, for roots, for something he could call his own ... #Quote by Rohinton Mistry

#55. Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. #Quote by Fanny Burney

#56. I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war. #Quote by Lisa Tawn Bergren

#57. I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't cut anything off, don't limit yourself. Give it a good listen: you might find something in that goofy Sun Ra noise, that dissonance. Before I learned 'official musicality' - which you should avoid at all costs - I listened to some Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane and that's where 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' came from. When you intentionally and aggressively pursue musical communication with those powerfully impactful musical geniuses, you will pick up something. #Quote by Ted Nugent

#58. In winter, the air is clear enough to drink, and your eyes can travel many hundreds of miles until they reach the green of the near hills, the blue-gray beyond them, and then the snow peaks far away, which rise in the sky with the sun, and remain suspended there, higher than imaginable, changing color and shape through the day. Every hour, they come closer, their massive flanks clearly visible, plumes of cloud smoking from their tips. After the last of the daylight is gone, at dusk, the peaks still glimmer in the slow-growing darkness as if jagged pieces of the moon had dropped from sky to earth. #Quote by Anuradha Roy

#59. Birds looked like an echo of birds, fat white clouds looked as if they were there to sell you fabric softener or air travel or health insurance. #Quote by Alexandra Kleeman

#60. Sometimes we have to break down to break through. #Quote by Gina Greenlee

#61. It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#62. If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me. #Quote by Neil Peart

#63. To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed. #Quote by Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#64. If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get. #Quote by Gina Greenlee

#65. The advantage of having an unexpected opportunity to successfully grieve our early-life losses; to enjoy healthy relationships; to develop an unshakable sense of self-esteem; to find our unique purposes in life; to have peace about our adoption experiences; to find our true identities ... now I am alive ... fully alive and on the cutting edge of my life's journey. What better place could one be? #Quote by Sherrie Eldridge

#66. Lhasa
The sage blue sky awakens before the earth
which slumbers a bit longer to still the chill of her bones
and dream until the sun peeks hot through her cragged peaks
bestirring weary monks to the swirl of their yak butter tea.

Monks meditate upon this whorl which echoes the birth
of galaxies, the twist of DNA, the curlicue of hair at the back
of an infant's head, eddying clockwise like Buddha's journey,
winding like a prayer wheel, in the resonance ofinterconnection.

Bells tinkle, bowls sing, incense suffuses hints of heaven,
rainbows of Jingfan prayer flags clap wildly in the wind,
waving me to my quest, to surge forward, to trek to higher
and higher ground -- to the rarefied air that is my mind. #Quote by Beryl Dov

#67. Junction nineteen! Una, she came off at Junction nineteen! You've added an hour to your journey before you even started. Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?"
Oh GOD. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to THEM and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still having sex?" Everyone knows that dating in your thirties is not the happy-go-lucky free-for-it-all it was when you were twenty-two and that the honest answer is more likely to be, "Actually, last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little Angora crop-top, told me he was gay/a sex addict/a narcotic addict/a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo," than, "Super, thanks. #Quote by Helen Fielding

#68. To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being. #Quote by Jose Marti

#69. Sometimes, I guess, an over-valent idea enters the mind as a problem, or imaginary problem. This is not so rare. You are getting ready for bed, late at night, and all of a sudden the idea comes into your mind that you did not shut off your car lights. You look out the window at your car-which is parked in your driveway in plain sight-and you can see that it shows no lights. But then you think: Maybe I left the lights on and they stayed on so long that they ran the battery down. So to be sure, I must go out and check. You put on your robe and go out, unlock the car door, get in and pull on the headlight switch. The lights come on. You turn them off, get out, lock up the car and return to the house. What has happened is that you have gone crazy; you have become psychotic. Because you have discounted the testimony of your senses; you could see out the window that the car lights were not on, yet you went out to check anyhow. This is the cardinal factor: you saw but you did not believe. Or, conversely, you did not see something but you believed it anyhow. Theoretically, you could travel between your bedroom and the car forever, trapped in an eternal closed loop of unlocking the car, trying the light switch, returning to the house-in this regard you herewith are a machine. You are no longer human. #Quote by Philip K. Dick

#70. We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash. #Quote by Lloyd Dorfman

#71. Every second counts when you are about to embark on a journey of lovemaking #Quote by Misheck Cicero

#72. I don't know what to tell him." The music notes return and float suspended in the air. I reach out my hand, but they dance away.
"That's what you and I are trying to figure out." Grace starts to hum.
"You know this song?" I ask and she smiles, so wide I can see her dentures shift in her mouth.
"Of course I do, Jonathan. Everyone does. We're born knowing it, but somewhere along the journey most people forget." She leans back in the chair and closes her eyes. Starts to hum again. Soft and lilting, the music weaves around me like a blanket. #Quote by Juliann Rich

#73. We think of agents, traffickers and facilitators as the worst abusers of refugees, but when they set out to extort from their clients, when they cheat them or dispatch them to their deaths, they are only enacting an entrepreneurial version of the disdain which refugees suffer at the hands of far more powerful enemies – those who terrorise them and those who are determined to keep them at arm's length. Human traffickers are simply vectors of the contempt which exists at the two poles of the asylum seeker's journey; they take their cue from the attitudes of warlords and dictators, on the one hand, and, on the other, of wealthy states whose citizens have learned to think of generosity as a vice.

[from the London Review of Books Vol. 22 No. 3 · 3 February 2000] #Quote by Jeremy Harding

#74. Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country. #Quote by Fanny Fern

#75. The road to Hades is easy to travel. #Quote by Wilfred Bion