#travel

Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#travel #traveler #home

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#movement #travel #worlds #home

But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes--a gulf, subject to tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious. ↗

— Washington Irving

#home

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen. ↗

— Alan Furst

#nature #travel #home

Every town you go to, they tell you what's special about their town. What they're number one at... This guy comes up and says, 'D'you know that we're the home of the world's largest frying pan?' '...Really! That is great 'cause I'm writin' a new book called Things I Don't Care About. ↗

— Tim Hawkins

#traveling #humor

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#life #lost #road #the-edge-of-never #travel

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost. ↗

— Bruce Paltrow

#blended #charm #everybody #everything #homogenized

He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us! ↗

— David Sedaris

#judgement #travel #humor

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#imagination #time-travel #imagination

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness. ↗

— Ivo Andrić

#life