"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones."

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"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Travel, Vice, Books, Knowledge

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Travel, Foreigners

"Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

Travel, America, Europe, Old

"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, British Author

Travel, Solitude, Reflection, Loneliness

"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Travel, Impermanence, Pessimism, Time

"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Travel, Journey, Italy, Seeking

"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Travel, Expectation, Fatigue, Reality

"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Travel, Adventure, Life, Discovery, Perspective

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Travel, Cities, World, Freedom, Adventure

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Travel, Europe, Imagination, Dream, Lies

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"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

"Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster."

"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."

"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."

"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."

"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

Explore more quotes by Anne Sophie Swetchine

"The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master."

"Repentance is accepted remorse."

"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick."

"There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time."

"We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly."

"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."

"Youth should be a savings bank."

"We expect everything and are prepared for nothing."

"Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity."

"In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend."