Sad Travel Quotes

#1. For him there is no present; there is only the past of what has been formulated and seen and the future of what has been formulated and not seen. The present is surrendered to the past and the future.

Walker Percy

#2. When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you've come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?

Teresa Hirst

#3. We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

Samuel Beckett

#4. And whether rich or poor, well or ill, happy or sad, books can be a refuge, they do not change with changing circumstance, they are the open highway to yesterday, today and tomorrow wherever you will to travel.

Gladys Taber

#5. Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

Vita Sackville-West

#6. But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

William Robertson Smith

#7. Dude. Did you notice how many people were here? Tons!" Kat exclaimed. "I put the fun in funeral.

Gena Showalter

#8. Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

George Washington

#9. And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.

Madame De Stael

#10. What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.

Joy Williams

#12. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

#13. Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

Reid Hoffman

#15. I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.

Ava DuVernay

#16. You don't need speech or hearing to feel [friendship]

Mitch Albom

#17. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Margaret Heffernan

#19. The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

Paul Theroux

#20. ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): And your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad
and to travel for it to.

William Shakespeare

#21. For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

Martin Parr

#22. I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.

Warren G

#23. Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with the
floating hearts and severed heads of my medicine. I must now whisper my other friends back too. I'm sad they're gone ... sad and blue.

Nicholaus Patnaude

#24. My heart is torn in tiny pieces scattered throughout the years. I exist in several places because you carry those pieces with you, wherever you go, whoever you choose to be, I'll be beside you in one form or another.

Moryah DeMott

#25. Thinke of ease, but worke on.

George Herbert

#26. Such a funny thing, time. You spend your whole life wishing there was more or less of it, never realizing that the time already given could be worth more than that which you wished for." -Davina

Moryah DeMott

#27. It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#28. It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Gustave Flaubert

#29. If I do depart this world out here, let it be known that I went out grinning will you, and loving it. LOVING IT.
Steve, are you listening ? I FEEL GREAT. Life's so joyous, so sad, so ephemeral, so crazy, so meaningless, so goddamn funny. This is paradise, and I wish I could give you some.

Robyn Davidson

#30. Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.

Donna Woolfolk Cross