Traveler Quotes

“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.”
― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
― Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby

“The best traveler is one without a camera.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“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, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World of Food: Brains, Bugs, and Blood Sausage

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Here's another poem,
like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
There isn't anything left to be said
but I will spend my life
trying to put you into words.
You who is every goodness,
every optimism
and hope.
Your love is a better fate for me
than anything I could wish for.
If you are a part of me,
then you’re the best part.
And if you're separate from me,
then you are my destination.
But I’ve become a weary traveller,
so please,
let us never be apart.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Why do travelers depart as they do, leaving an incomplete tale of footprints in the earth.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I
shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“One would assume that travelers to Bali, the heaven on earth, would cry for joy. But in reality, every traveler is grieving some loss or another.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return”
― George Washington

“Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

“A good traveler leaves no track.”
― Tao te Ching

“Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“His action of joining them, which would have been rude in a restaurant that was not moving at three hundred kilometers an hour, was perfectly acceptable on a train, which mimicked the entirely random joinings of life but revealed their true nature by making them last only hours or days, rather than years and decades. People on a train form an alliance, as if the world that surrounded the parallel rails were hostile and and they refugees from it. The dining car, humming and rocking gently in the night, annihilated past and future and made all associations outside of itself seem vaguely unreal. So they welcomed him at their table, for he was one of them, a traveler, not one of those wraiths through whose night-lit cities they passed.”
― Alexander Jablokov, Carve the Sky

“As you journey along with Sufi Way, you will experience the knowledge that the apparent world is indeed just that: apparent. The Traveler will reach a stage in which the apparent world is temporarily dissolved or seen through. However, the stage where this is experienced is an area where many seekers of Truth are stuck. As the apparent world is experienced to be an illusion, other explanations, reality-maps, entities, and worlds rush in to fill the void and present themselves as how things actually are. These alternative explanations and so forth, are no more The Real (and no less more, that matter) than is the apparent world that they help to expose as illusion.”
― Laurence Galian

“In the quagmire of feelings and emotions that engulf us on our drab and monotonous days and starry, resplendent nights, the ones that bring back past memories hold a special place, almost a unique pedestal, in our hearts! The distinct fragrance of nostalgia that serenades us in our minds, though incomparable, could be akin to a feeling of ecstasy. A feeling that hovers in our minds for a humongous period of time, and one that takes us to mammoth heights in the midst of chaos and cacophony. It is as if we found a new elixir that rejuvenates us and makes us spring back into life.

~ Notes of a Traveler, The Musafir.”
― Avijeet Das

“So in life sometimes we have to stay alone, but never give up our path to glory.”
― Avijeet Das

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― Steve Klubertanz

“Travelers always make up excuses to themselves about why they can't set foot among these trees—too tired, too cold, no compass, no time—but even as they walk the well-worn road, their eyes constantly dart up to the canopy, silently testing the perimeter with their gazes, wondering why some land simply doesn't welcome them.”
― Gwendolyn Kiste, Boneset & Feathers

“Nepal is a beautiful country. I have never felt unwelcome in Nepal. Nepal and the people of Nepal have a big and beautiful heart." ❤️”
― Avijeet Das

“I was a Nepali in my last birth. Nepal and India are both dear to me.”
― Avijeet Das

“I was a Nepali in my last birth. Nepal and India are both dear to me. Thank you for your good wishes for my Dad ”
― Avijeet Das

“Come on reach over mamma
And hand me my traveling shoes
I want you folks to know right now
I got the Statesboro blues”
― David Bromberg

“Injury to ointment, heartbreak to daybreak - ordeal for the tourist, calling for the traveler.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“The journey is the destination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“A writer's life is different from the life of a normal man's life. A writer cannot settle down at one place. He has to keep traveling and drifting from one place to another. Because his travels give meaning and substance to his stories and poetry, he must keep on traveling. The people he meets and the places he visits, give unique perspectives to him to think, reflect and write about.

A writer does not belong to one village, one city, one town, or one country. A writer belongs to the world.”
― Avijeet Das

“I am a Man, maybe a Myth, and not yet a Legend.”
― Avijeet Das