#travel

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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

— George Washington

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When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse. ↗

— Josh Gates

#death #hospital #traveling #death

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. ↗

— Dave Eggers You Shall Know Our Velocity

#travel #death

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.] ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#travel #death

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance. ↗

— Maira Kalman

#travel #dreams

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#dreams

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#travel #dreams

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#antarctica #dream #hope #travel #dreams

I am with you. I'm not going anywhere." "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought. "Can we travel to Idris? I mean, I guess, can the apartment travel there?" "It can't get past the wards." His hand traced a path down her cheek. "You know,I really missed you." "You mean you haven't been going on romantic dates with Sebastian while you've been away from me?" "I tried", Jace said, "but no matter how liquored up you get him , he just won't put out. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #traveling #dating