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The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
Sep 25, 2025
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
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.'
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.