100 Quotes About Travel Writing

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach would be to the expect the worst, the very worst, that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory. Martha Gellhorn

I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me. Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic. Richard Halliburton

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Policemen are often confronted with situations which baffle them at first. A certain crime scene may seem meaningless, but they have to derive some meaning out of it. They have to connect the dots, find the links, delve into its history, look for evidence, come up with a zillion theories and arrive at truth. The thing is, truth is always stranger than fiction. Mahendra Jakhar

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. Bill Bryson

I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing... Avijeet Das

Failure is a sign post, directing the right road for life’s journey. Lailah Gifty Akita

After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life. Lailah Gifty Akita

Failure is a sign post of life, guiding us to the right paths. Lailah Gifty Akita

May God guide you on the new travel path. Lailah Gifty Akita

When you arrive at the destination, never forget where the journey began. Lailah Gifty Akita

May God direct your paths. Lailah Gifty Akita

Enjoy the beauty of a sacred day. Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever you are, you have to be joyfully alive. Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a long travel. The end of the journey is often unpredictable. Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever we travel to, the wonderful people we meet become our family. Lailah Gifty Akita

In every voyage, be fully present. Lailah Gifty Akita

Let your imagination takes you to where you wish to be. Lailah Gifty Akita

Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been. Lailah Gifty Akita

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel? Lailah Gifty Akita

Let your imagination takes you where you want to be. Lailah Gifty Akita

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone. Tawny Lara

Keep taking new paths to expand your horizon. Lailah Gifty Akita

Every travel is blessed adventure. Lailah Gifty Akita

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it. Lailah Gifty Akita

Great places, great memories. Lailah Gifty Akita

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage. Lailah Gifty Akita

We savour on great memories of happy times. Lailah Gifty Akita

What a joyful adventure! Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find a new path in your travel. Lailah Gifty Akita

This is a divine path. Lailah Gifty Akita

The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity. Lailah Gifty Akita

Every travel is a blessed adventure. Lailah Gifty Akita

What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling. Lailah Gifty Akita

Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the right paths for your journey. Travel along these paths to your final destination. Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to know where you are going to reach your destination. Lailah Gifty Akita

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel... Ernesto Che Guevara

This moment is spectacular! Lailah Gifty Akita

We only live once, so why not do something different? Dayna Lovely

...because life is too exciting not to share. Dayna Lovely

Life vicariously through yourself. Dayna Lovely

Capture every moments of your life. Lailah Gifty Akita

My life on earth is personal journey. Lailah Gifty Akita

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure. Lailah Gifty Akita

The path of light is true enlightenment. Lailah Gifty Akita

Your inner light is greater than the darkness. May your light shine brightly in every path you travel. Lailah GiftyAkita

Never be afraid to travel on a new path. Lailah Gifty Akita

When you look closely to the path you have travel on, you will realise that God was always with you, directing every step you took. Lailah Gifty Akita

Ask for the godly way, travel its path. Lailah Gifty Akita

When you focus on your travel path, you will observe a divine power, guiding every step of the journey. Lailah Gifty Akita

On every travel, we saw beautiful landscapes. Lailah Gifty Akita

The life you live will be enrich with every journey you made. Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place. Lailah Gifty Akita

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places. Lailah Gifty Akita

Be determined to live for your dreams. Lailah Gifty Akita

All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly--not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things the outer limits would suffice. Ernesto Che Guevara

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here? Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.' The uncluttered stretches of the American West and the deserted miles of roads force a lone traveler to pay attention to them by leaving him isolated in them. This squander of land substitutes a sense of self with a sense of place by giving him days of himself until, tiring of his own small compass, he looks for relief to the bigness outside -- a grandness that demands attention not just for its scope, but for its age, its diversity, its continual change. The isolating immensity reveals what lies covered in places noisier, busier, more filled up. For me, what I saw revealed was this (only this): a man nearly desperate because his significance had come to lie within his own narrow ambit. William Least HeatMoon

Sometimes, you feel yourself weightless, thinned. You draw back the curtains (if there are any) on a rectangle of wasteland at dawn, and realise that you are cast adrift from everything that gave you identity. Thousands of miles from anyone who knows you, you have the illusion that your past is lighter, scarcely yours at all. Even your ties of love have been attenuated (the emergency satellite phone is in my rucksack and nobody calls). Dangerously, you may come to feel invulnerable. Colin Thubron

Explore the world with an open mind, a sturdy carry-on, and clothes that don't wrinkle! Madeleine K. Albright

Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child. Anonymous

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, you begin to realize how short life is. Almost everyone has at least one friend who left the planet too soon. People lose their capacity to walk, run, think, and experience life. I realize how important it is to use the time I have to see as much of the world as I can. Nicholas Kontis

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new Unknown

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary. John Early

Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway. Jennifer S. Alderson

Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate. Kilroy J. Oldster

I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop. Jennifer S. Alderson

The true adventurer sees his glass as half full even when there are things swimming in it. Randy Ross

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by the flight, you are impatient to get out and sample the streets, the life, the action. Geoff Dyer

My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category: ordeal travel. At every turn I faced challenges, difficulties and threats when in the Congo. The challenge was to assess and choose the option best suited to making progress. But there were moments when there were no alternatives, or shortcuts or clever ideas. At these times, ordeal travel became really no ordeal at all. . Tim Butcher

Travel makes me feel like a bird, Travel gives me a sense of freedom, Travel makes me come alive! Archana Chaurasia Kapoor

Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books! Kathryn Occhipinti

If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it. Russell Hannon

Only the traveler knows the details of the journey. Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable. James Salter

In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability — to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour — seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge — where to sleep? — has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the traveller’s precise location and welfare — and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home. Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity. Dervla Murphy

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. Hannah Harding

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls. Lailah Gifty Akita

I’d love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I’d want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose. Maureen Johnson

... it's part of the adventure! Cat McMahon

I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can. Charles Finch

Living on the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next. Jane WilsonHowarth

The calm skies that drifted above us lulled us into thinking this traversée would be smooth, but after several hours, the unsteady sea had taken its toll on me and after a light lunch and a brief swim in the open sea failed to do so, I attempted to remedy my mal de mer with rest. When I awoke, the sun had already set and the cool air and soft light of twilight helped recalibrate my disoriented thoughts. Although my seasickness had subsided, I lay starboard side facing the heavens - that were now a deep shade of purple - so as to not provoke another episode. We set to anchoring behind several large volcanic pillars just a stone’s-throw away from where the Tyrrhenian Sea kissed the east of the island. A handful of wishes scattered the skies as we approached the shores of Aci Trezza. As these stars traced their dying song across the void above, part of me felt ashamed for even entertaining the notion of wishing upon a star, but that voice was speedily silenced by words He had once shared with me in Scotland: “There is always some truth to fiction. RJ Arkhipov

Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life’s good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to distinguish between loneliness (experienced by default), and solitude (choosing when and how to enjoy my own company), as I began a journey of engaging the world on my own terms. Over the years, that journey deepened as I traveled life’s roads with increasing independence and confidence, whether I was attending graduate school at night while working during the day, buying my first house or changing careers. . Gina Greenlee

Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn’t want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line. . Gina Greenlee

No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me. Gina Greenlee

I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip? Gina Greenlee

Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant, and another to The St. Petersburg Times. Gina Greenlee

Ten years ago I wondered, “How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?” I’ve answered those questions. But now new ones emerge. Gina Greenlee

In the aftermath of the attacks on the United States — that included chaotic overall of airline security — and the exploding tensions in Nepal, friends thought it ill-advised for me to board a flight to Kathmandu. Yet my existence at home felt so tenuous and unpredictable that political unrest in Asia barely registered. Also, it seemed more important than ever for me to keep going, not only overseas but also in the direction of a more satisfying life. Somehow the two felt connected. . Gina Greenlee

The trip changed all that. Stirring the murk of a life ill-fitting, Something More was perceptible though without name or form. Something More was the genesis of a map, not one handed to me but rendered with each step taken, a skill seasoned by a cruise gone bad. Gina Greenlee

In 2006 I had begun the discernment process for locating my rightful geographic home. By the time my corporate pink slip arrived I had spent two years researching and taking recon trips to five different cities in southern California. Having crossed them off my list, in February 2008 I visited Sarasota, Florida, at the urging of a friend who winters in a neighboring town. Though Florida had never been on my radar, only minutes in Sarasota I knew I’d found home. . Gina Greenlee

The cruise was the conduit for what would become my third book. While I was traveling and writing for ctnow.com, women across the United States and from the Caribbean emailed not to ask about my geographic journey but my existential one. “How do you find the courage to travel on your own?” they wondered. “How do you keep from getting lonely? Don’t you feel self-conscious eating out alone?” After the first 30 emails like these I thought, There’s a book here. It would be eight years before I published Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road. But the inspiration for publication came during the cruise. Gina Greenlee

My post-cruise sabbatical would spark the idea for my first book, Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Life’s Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones — The Lesson of the Paper Clips. How? In my data entry job all I did for 20 hours a week was paper clip printouts of computer screens. For three years. I loved it. Gina Greenlee