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I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.

Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through.

My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.

The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend.

Ron Lizzi

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

I have two moods when I get drunk. The common mood is the lazy, happy-go-lucky guy. The uncommon mood is the frustrated, self-deprecating guy. That night was the latter.

I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.

You'll be making so much cash that you won't know what to waste it on.

Nothing has changed, Claire. You're still as beautiful as you were when we met first and I am still in love with everything about you. We may be worlds apart but this doesn't keep our hearts at distance. I feel your breath in every breath of mine and I hear your heartbeat in every beat of my heart. I traveled to far away lands, rivers, forests, mountains, glaciers, deserts and skyscrapers but wherever I go I find you there. My dreams aren't illusions but visions of a beautiful yesterday; I play with your hair-locks, I kiss your eyes, I embrace your hands and you giggle in my arms blossoming like a flower. My love, you're my only reality, my only fantasy, my only celebration and my only refuge. I have waited a thousands suns and I can wait a thousand more to witness the moment you call out to me. That day you'll find me and even if I don't live up to see that day I will be with you forever, just remember me.

We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa.

Kari Martindale

Travel makes existentialists of us all.

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him.

A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

Fernando Pessoa

Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.

I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff.

I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man.

It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.

Anxiety's already tingling my skin.

A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.

As I travelled south through Europe everything got bigger. This applied to nice things like fruit-the nectarines and tomatoes were about six times as large in Greece as they were in Britain for example. But the principle also applied to unpleasant things, like spiders, and worms, and all other nameless and horrifying insects and arachnids of Greece.

Margaret Eleanor Leigh

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?

Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives.

Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'.

Do you want me to call the internet police for you?

Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is.

The best part of traveling is finding yourself.

Some journeys can only be traveled alone.

Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every single moment is a travel into the unknown!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Traveling can get kind of lonely sometimes, er… no, not traveling. What is the word? Life. Life can get kind of lonely.

I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they’ve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

Unknown

In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability – to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour – seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge – where to sleep? – has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the traveller’s precise location and welfare – and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home. Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity.

I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

Alain de Botton

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

Lillian E. Smith

You never know travel path of every man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didn’t want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only “something else” worth living.

The sacred travel path is one’s life journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.

Alain de Botton

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea that there's something interesting in their lives. It's musical chairs in reverse..... All the upgrades in existence lead to the same airports and resort hotels, the same pina colada bullshit. The tourists smile at their tans and their shiny teeth and think they're happy. But the suntans hide who they really are-- salary slaves, with heads full of American rubbish. Travel is the last fantasy the 2oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.

I would rather have 10,000 stories than 10,000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.

Daniel Roy Baron

Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross.

Anonymous

Better to stay home than travel in a hurry.

Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.

Here we are at last. The Italian proverb says “See Naples and die” but I say, see Naples and live; for there seems a great deal worth living for.

Arthur John Strutt

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

Just as much as it is about booking flights, sharing hostel rooms with strangers, and learning to say hello in a variety of languages; travel is about the momentarily times of breakdowns, longing of all the great things back home, and the tears you hold back from each good-bye, which in the entirety, makes up the honest human experience of living.

We were all in that crammed 8 person hostel room for our own personal reasons; whether we were trying to get away from demons of the past or because you realized we were all fucked up in the head a bit and had to cure chaos with chaos; for whatever reason, we met in that hostel lobby, as the only foreigners on the boat, or ended up travelling across a couple of countries together for a few weeks just because I happened to sit next to you on that bus.

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot live directly through life. Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds...I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, familiarity, books...It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

As we encounter each other, we see our diversity — of background, race, ethnicity, belief – and how we handle that diversity will have much to say about whether we will in the end be able to rise successfully to the great challenges we face today.

Dan Smith

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