50 inspirational travel quotes

21.07.2023 - 07:47 / roughguides.com

There are many reasons why humans have loved to travel over the centuries. From discovering new lands to interacting with different peoples, travel really does broaden the mind. But just don’t take our word for it. We’ve pulled together 50 of the best travel quotes, from some of the greatest thinkers and explorers, which are bound to give you a serious case of wanderlust.

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Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

A 19th-century French novelist from Rouen, Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was considered a leading mover in realism within French literature. He's best known for his 1857 novel Madame Bovary, a portrayal of bourgeois life, which was tried by the French government on the grounds of alleged immorality – Flaubert narrowly escaped conviction.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (that's right, Mark Twain was a pseudonym) was a novelist, journalist, humourist and lecturer born in Florida, Missouri, USA on November 30, 1835 (and died April 21, 1910, Redding, Connecticut). He became famous for his travel narratives such as The Innocents Abroad (1869) and for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and follow-up, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In Hartford, Connecticut, the Mark Twain House awaits your visit to learn more about the author.

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One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Henry Miller was a 20th-century American writer (December 26, 1891 – June 9, 1980) who spent a large portion of his career in Paris, France. His works are based on his own life and experiences which later became characterised as fictionalised autobiography, and include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939) and Black Spring (1936). His books often had explicit and obscene content which led the way for other American writers, but also resulted in both Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn getting banned in the US for nearly three decades.

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When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. He's most