Travel Inspiration

Wisdom of the ages about travel.

Inspiration can be drawn from humanity’s greatest travelers – poetically distilled down to the Philosopher’s Stone of the travel quote. From Mark Twain to Rumi, from ancient proverbs to Einstein we’ve collected a range of quotes to cajole you into getting up off of your couch and out into reality.

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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going."
(Paul Theroux)

"It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal."
(Tom Waits)

"No one speaks English and everything is broken."
(Tom Waits)

"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
(Paul Theroux)

"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind."
(Charles Dickens)

"Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell."
(Mark Twain)

"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. "
(Elizabeth Drew)

Two great talkers will not travel far together.
(Spanish Proverb)

"I love to travel, But hate to arrive."
(Albert Einstein)

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
(Confucius)

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel
(Sir Vivian Fuchs)

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
(Martin Buber)

"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."
(Edward Dahlberg)

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled."
(Mohammed)

"Own only what you can carry with you; Let your memory be your travel bag."
(Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones."
(Anne Sophie Swetchine)

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. the great affair is to move."
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."
(Will Kommen)

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!
(Zen saying)

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
(St. Augustine)

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
(Henry Miller)

"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."
(Rumi)

"Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order."
(Katherine Mansfield)

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Explore. Dream. Discover."
(Mark Twain)

"It is solved by walking."
((Algerian Proverb))

"Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God."
(Kurt Vonnegut)

Tom has been traveling non-stop since the age of 18 and co-founded Road Junky in 2004. Follow him @tomglaister

He’s the author of Hand to Mouth to India, an account of hitchhiking from England to India with no money and which will soon be rereleased by Road Junky Books.

Tales of a Road Junky featuring tales of breaking people out of jail in Delhi, selling fake Rolexes in Japan and other adventures in Israel and Brazil will be out later this year.

He also writes fiction for anyone who never really grew up and his latest novel is Bozo and the Storyteller – download the audio book for free or even buy a copy…

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