Humans are multidimensional and complex. No single reason exists why we travel to exotic or mysterious lands. But when we do we’re confronted with difference; different people, architecture, food, climate, etc. These selected philosophical travel quotes reflect how travel impacts on a diverse collective of people. Enjoy.
Anthony Bourdain:
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
George Bernard Shaw:
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”
Tiziano Terzani:
“The point of travel is in the path walked not in the destination; the point of traveling is travel itself not arriving somewhere.”
Terry Pratchett:
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
Dagobert David Runes:
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”
Asian Proverb:
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
Lin Yutang:
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his own, familiar pillow.”
Ibn Battuta:
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
Aldous Huxley:
“For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”
Pat Conroy:
“Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
Mark Twain:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Oscar Wilde:
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Paul Coelho:
“If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: it’s lethal.”
Jawaharial Nehru:
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Caskie Stinnett:
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
Hope you’ve enjoyed my article on philosophical travel quotes. If you have you might like reading: Philosophical Travel Reading: Travel Book Companions
A list of travel books that might provide inspiration, HERE