Travel Quotes - Page 9

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

I travel time. But not at the same speed.


Time travels the fastest when it is alone.

I want to be like time. I want to travel through time.

My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.

With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.

From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
It only can be squandered.

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

A bad leader wouldn't stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can't forgive the enemy, if you can't forgive your men for losing faith. You can't force every one single Union deserter to fight, but I know, only you can inspire every deserter to fight for their cause." - Amelia Raht

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart

You must be fearless to take the path less traveled.

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.