#traveller

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#alive #because #certain #feel #fully

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#aesthetic #intellectual #move #physical #reasons

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attentions #daily #earnest #falling #fit

Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#chuck #i #light #things #traveller

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#earth #fences #field #forsaken #hollow

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#colossal #earliest #enters #gates #had

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#does #going #good #know #perfect

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. ↗

— James Harrington

#first #historian #man #may #must

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#bourne #city #destination #eternal #even