I’ve always been someone who gets lost in words. Whether it is reading a book, listening to song lyrics, or writing, it always amazes me the power that words have to put meaning to our deepest thoughts and feelings.
Since we’ve been home, I have, unsurprisingly, found a lot of comfort in words, so I thought I would put together a list of my favorites.
Quotes about Travel
“The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It’s a passion. And I can’t understand people who don’t want to travel.” – Paul Theroux, travel writer
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryson, travel writer
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain, writer
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – unknown
“Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.” – unknown
“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” – unknown
“A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer, travel writer
“That is why we need to travel. If we don’t offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don’t lift to the horizon; our ears don’t hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days. Don’t let yourself become one of those people. The fear of the unknown and the lure of the comfortable will conspire to keep you from taking the chances the traveler has to take. But if you take them, you will never regret your choice.” – Kent Nerburn, American author
“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux, travel writer
“Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer, travel writer
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” – Freya Stark, Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer
“Wanderlust consumed her; foreign hearts and exotic minds compelled her. She had a gypsy soul and a vibrant hope for the unknown.” – D. Marie
“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg, Danish fiction writer
“We find ourselves after airplane
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde, Irish poet
“Travel not to find yourself but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – unknown
“It’s a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” – Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
Quotes about Coming Home
“My confession is I fall in love with so many places I’m always half broken-hearted by goodbyes. And I don’t believe in non-attachment. There’s no passion inside of that. I believe in burning, and longing. And I believe we leave tiny pieces of ourselves in every place we’ve loved.” – Victoria Erickson, writer
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. -Mary Ritter Beard, American historian and archivist
“The best part about airports lies in what they symbolize. Airports are places of bookends: new beginnings and long-awaited endings, arrivals and departures, hellos and goodbyes. We start in one city to end in another hundreds or a thousand miles away. You enter from a desert and exit into a blizzard. In from winter, out into summer. In from familiarity, out into something completely foreign. Or vice versa. An airport is a place of transit, and not just geographically. I wish there was some sort of time-lapse to show how people change between departures and arrivals. When I arrive back home from being away, I’m never the same person as when I left.” – Alex Brueckner, blogger
“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. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky. All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese, Italian Poet, novelist, critic
“You will feel humbled, indignant, awestruck, and used. Like the whole world got a piece of you to keep as a souvenir, and then sent you home empty handed.” – The Wherever Writer, blogger
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, author
“Traveling – it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – Ibn Battuta, Muslim scholar
“I have returned to my homeland only to find that though I speak the language, I am struggling to communicate.” – The Wherever Writer, blogger
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“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, chef, author, and travel documentarian
What are some of your favorite travel quotes? Leave them in the comments.
