Top 320 Traveler Quotes & Sayings

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.

I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

Technically you would only need one time traveler convention.

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

The true traveler never arrives.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

I was never really a traveler.

Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.

Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.

A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.

I don't believe any sort of traveler does a better job than any other sort of traveler at obeying traffic safety laws. It's difficult to foresee a camera program that can be used with bikers and walkers.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

I am very little of a traveler.

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.

I'm not a big traveler.

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

...Hell, which as every frequent traveler knows, is in Concourse D of O'Hare Airport.