Travel Memoir Quotes

#1. It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

Gerry Abbey

#2. 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

#3. Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-consuming grief.

From GLASS HALF FULL

Sarah Jane Butfield

#4. I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

Gerry Abbey

#5. Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

Gerry Abbey

#6. With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

William Least Heat-Moon

#7. Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Frances Mayes

#8. He was lonely. I could see that. He was working his butt off-and mine, too-in the hope that a million rupees might sort out his sex life. I prayed to Buddha he would be successful. If he didn't get some action soon, I doubted I would, either.

Frank Kusy

#9. I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.

Dan Grajek

#10. Being a maverick traveller, one would like to place oneself in the place of a local; just listen without judgement.

Mary Jane Walker

#11. Walk your own path and be yourself

Joanne Nussbaum

#12. Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

Frank Kusy

#13. And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.

Cheryl Strayed

#14. The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.

Mary Karr

#15. That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.

Christopher Isherwood

#16. Isn't that the point, to enjoy our lives no matter what?

Jude Arnold

#17. My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

Gerry Abbey

#18. Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary.

John Early

#19. There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

Gerry Abbey

#20. As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn't even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.

Gerry Abbey

#21. 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

#22. And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

Gerry Abbey

#23. Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

William Least Heat-Moon

#24. I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.

Saffron Mello Castro

#25. Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me

Don Darkes

#26. My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.

Frank Kusy

#27. Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

Martha Barron Barrett

#28. I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven. I want to carry it with me wherever I go. I want my fragile, hurting heart, to recognize fleeting kairos, eternal moments as they pass. I want to be my own mountain and my own retreat.

Anna White

#29. He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Jeffrey Rasley

#30. As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

Craig Briggs

#31. The website increases my excitement when I read, "Hark, the pies are calling!" My excitement is short-lived, however. I read the page again and realize that it is "pipes" that are calling, not "pies" as I had hoped. I am disappointed. I personally react better to the call of pies.

Aefa Mulholland

#32. The last time I'd spoken French I was twelve years old; before I reached my thirteenth birthday the teacher had correctly steered me into woodwork classes.

Craig Briggs

#33. Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world.

Cindy Campopiano

#34. The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

Vicki Alayne Bradley