“I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.”
Travel breaks you out of your routine and into someone else's world. These quotes capture the thrill of departure, the discomfort of unfamiliarity, the joy of discovery, and the way coming home feels different after you have seen how other people live.
“People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.”
“I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.”
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
“The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.”
“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”
“People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
“If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”
“I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.”
“I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all it's a great way to travel!”
“The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.”
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.”
“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”