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18 Timeless Travel Quotes For The Wanderers And Soul-Searchers Of The World

For those who know that home is not a place.
Heidi Priebe
February 1, 2017
“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
— Naguib Mahfouz, No Title
Tagged: Home, Wanderlust, travel
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
— Pierce Brown, Golden Son
Tagged: Home, travel, Adventure, Going Home, Homecoming, Belonging
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: travel, Courage, Adventure, Bravery, Leaving, Money
“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Love, Places, travel, Nostalgia
“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
— Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
Tagged: travel, Adventure, Home, Coming Home
“I want to do everything on earth with you. I want to float down rivers, traverse deserts, scale mountains and submerge ourselves into the sea. I want to take on a lifetime worth of challenges alongside you but most of all, I want to come home to you.”
— Heidi Priebe, I Want To Do Everything On Earth With You
Tagged: Quality Time, Love, travel, Adventure
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Tagged: Soul Searching, Adventure, travel, Love, Leaving, Life In Transit, Writers
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
— Miriam Adeney, Kingdom Without Borders
Tagged: Architecture Of Happiness, Pursuit of Happiness, Love, travel, Homesickness
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
Tagged: travel, wander, lost
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
Tagged: wander, travel, Life
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
— Anonymous, via Pinterest
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Escaping, Escape
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Exploring, Traveling
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here.”
— Eve Ensler, I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life Of Girls Around The World
Tagged: Love, Life, Solitude, travel, Adventure, Self-Reliance
“The only good reason to go into debt is for traveling. Not Isabel Marant boots or expensive groceries.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 19 Pieces Of Advice You’ll Need To Make It Through Your 20s
Tagged: travel, Debt, Money
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Leaving, travel, Change, Variety
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: travel, Leaving, Dissatisfaction, Wanderlust, restlessness
“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
Tagged: Foreign, travel, Home, Fitting In, Finding Your Place, Belonging
“Most have roots where I’ve got wings.”
— Becca Martin, You Won’t Fall For Me If You Know What’s Good For You
Tagged: Roots, Wings, Freedom, travel