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“People commonly travel around the world to see rivers and mountains, new stars, birds of rare plumage, queerly deformed fishes, ridiculous breeds of men—they abandon themselves to the bestial stupor which gapes at existence, and they think they...” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.” Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“the further one travels the less one knows.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.” William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“With people like us our home is where we are not” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.” James Joyce, Dubliners

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“I have crossed seas, left cities behind me, followed the course of rivers or plunged into forests, always making my way towards other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and never was I able to turn back, any more than a record can...” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“This would mean that any time travel would be confined to the future. There would be no chance of Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise turning up at the present time.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterward where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.” Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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