Top 100 Traveler Quotes
#1. One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
Hanya Yanagihara
#2. If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.
David Tennant
#3. As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a timely story for a new emerging era.
Yossi Ghinsberg
#4. He (Orwell) always made an impression of the passing traveler who meets one on the station, points out that one is waiting for the wrong train, and vanishes
V.S. Pritchett
#5. For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be in my home or take my kids to school. But I realized it really wasn't that. It really is its own spaceship. And I had always been a space traveler.
Michael J. Massimino
#6. Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.
Paul Theroux
#7. I am a traveler," he wrote, "going somewhere and to some destination...only the somewhere and the destination do not exist
Steven Naifeh
#8. The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package, Roosevelt sneered.
Candice Millard
#9. What mark will I leave behind? How will anyone know I have been here? What sign will tell the future traveler I existed? 'I am here! Today ... I exist'. I believe the deepest impression is made in those moments when I can say 'I care, I love'.
Leonard Nimoy
#10. He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.
Paul Theroux
#12. These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
Andrei Codrescu
#13. I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
John Ridley
#14. Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.
William Moulton Marston
#15. The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?
Louise Bogan
#16. Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.
Christina Baldwin
#18. If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it.
Russell Hannon
#19. Most travel experts recommend that even if your final destination is Miami, it's better to fly to an airport in some other city - if necessary, Seattle - and take a cab from there. Or, as Savvy Air Traveler magazine suggests, 'simply jump out of the plane while it's still over the Atlantic'.
Dave Barry
#20. The traveler who crosses a mountain in the direction of a star runs the risk of forgetting which is his guiding star if he concentrates too exclusively on the climbing problems. If he only acts for action's sake, he will get nowhere.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#21. Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#22. Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa
#23. On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being mistaken is the essence of the traveler's tale.
Paul Theroux
#24. I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet Martineau
#25. The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Muhammad
#26. Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.
Phil Cousineau
#27. Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
Freya Stark
#28. When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family
Drew Bundini Brown
#29. A howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. -
Henry David Thoreau
#30. Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.
Virginia Hamilton
#32. I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)
Audrey Niffenegger
#33. I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
Matthew Reilly
#34. A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
Lao-Tzu
#35. I disapprove of the vain and the religious.
Who can affirm whether you will go to Heaven
or Hell? Besides, what do those words mean? Do you
know any traveler who has been there?
Omar Khayyam
#36. As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth.
Alan W. Watts
#39. The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.
R.D. Laing
#40. Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.
Harry Bauld
#41. Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi
#42. I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.
Albert Einstein
#43. People with daddy issues can always spot a fellow traveler.
Bentley Little
#44. Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.
Pico Iyer
#45. It's said that the Buddha's enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.
Matthieu Ricard
#46. As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self - the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells - and keep an objective eye on the reader.
William Zinsser
#48. Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities
you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,
nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveler.
Margaret Atwood
#49. For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.
Louis J. Halle
#50. There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. It's a contention of Heat Moon's
believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get
that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him.
William Least Heat-Moon
#52. I've just finished a book called 'The Time Traveler's Wife', which I really enjoyed, but that's quite old, but I have read it. I've read it, and I enjoyed that.
Rupert Evans
#53. A traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling but does not care to record them.
Don DeLillo
#54. The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
Samuel Johnson
#55. Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.
Henry Rollins
#56. A spouse is not a destination but a fellow traveler.
Sadghuru
#57. Warning, brave traveler - here be implementation details!
Anonymous
#58. Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
Agnes Repplier
#59. Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler
Ira Levin
#60. The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
G.K. Chesterton
#61. The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.
Li Bai
#62. I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#63. On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?
Sam Ewing
#64. Oh, if Plato could see me now ! Aristotle, traveler of time!
James Dashner
#65. I want to observe the ordinary things of earth - the moon, the stars, the rainbows, even the yellow leaves of the old cherry trees - and receive their messages. To hear them say what every weary traveler, every earnest seeker, longs to hear. Welcome home.
Christie Purifoy
#66. He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler.
Jennie Fields
#67. I can't let that happen again. The stakes are way too high. I know that, now more than ever. If there's anything good that came from my failure on First Earth, it's that I have now totally given myself over to being a Traveler.
D.J. MacHale
#68. The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka
#69. [death] ... the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
George Washington
#70. There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, ... for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.
Paul Fussell
#72. I became a slightly daft traveler, obsessed with beekeeping and professing to know all there was to know on the topic. I started arguments so others would correct me and speak of beekeepers they had known.
Robin Hobb
#73. The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
Bharati Mukherjee
#74. The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology, and why the happy traveler wanders and does not let himself be the slave of maps, guidebooks, and schedules, using them but not being used by them.
Alan W. Watts
#75. The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.
Paul Theroux
#76. Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.
Andrew Zimmern
#77. I see you're in a hurry to get someplace. It's a great mistake to hurry." "Why?" Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything the traveler said. "Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.
Larry McMurtry
#78. To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
#79. The mountains are so cold
not just now but every year
crowded ridges breathe in snow
sunless forests breathe out mist
nothing grows until Grain Ears
leaves fall before Autumn Begins
a lost traveler here
looks in vain for the sky
Han-shan
#80. Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.
Robert Fulghum
#81. The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."
Wilfred Grenfell
#82. I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games.
Albert Camus
#83. Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
Andre Maurois
#84. He suggested that paths were imprinted with the 'dreams' of each traveler who had walked it and that his own experiences would in course of time [also] lie under men's feet.
Robert Macfarlane
#85. Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel
#86. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Daniel J. Boorstin
#87. Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
John Burroughs
#88. Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.
Salman Rushdie
#89. Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save.
Thomas S. Monson
#90. As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.
Margaret Mead
#91. What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
Imre Kertesz
#92. An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
#93. I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
Candace Bushnell
#94. The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
Lord Chesterfield
#95. I'm a shaky traveler, she said. I can't even sleep through a flight, I have to be awake for the crash.
Jill Shalvis
#96. The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
Rabindranath Tagore
#98. The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.
Hyder Akbar
#100. Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
David Douglas
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