"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."

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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."

bell hooks, American Critic

Travel, Body, Living, Mind

"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Travel, God, Soul, Heart

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Travel, Traveling

"I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived."

Carew Papritz, American Author

Travel, Movement, Passion, Necessity

"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Travel, Cities, Riddle, Mystery, Explanation

"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Travel, Adventure, Exploration, Curiosity, Observation

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."

Danny Kaye, American Actor

Travel, Journey

"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Travel, Exploration, Discovery, Imagination, Adventure

"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Travel, Protection, Faith, Trust

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

George Eliot, British Author

Travel, Deeds

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"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

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"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

Love

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."

Life

"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."

Time

"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."

Being

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

Music

"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."

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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."

"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

"I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived."

"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."

"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."

"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

Explore more quotes by Lawrence Durrell

"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."

"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."

"Music is only love looking for words."

"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."

"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."

"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."