Time Travel Quotes

• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  116 Copy quote

• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

  Pat Conroy

  Travel, Adventure, Vacation

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  53 Copy quote

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

  Martin Buber

  Inspirational, Travel, Freedom

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

  168 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Dream, Travel, Home

  63 Copy quote

• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

  Earl Mac Rauch

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Travel

  Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, Believe, Pilots

  Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Travel, Journey

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

  Tom Stoppard

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Adventure

  98 Copy quote

• There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Travel, Magic, Going Away

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.357, e-artnow

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Travel brings power and love back into your life.

  Rumi

  Travel, Adventure, Optimistic

  39 Copy quote

• There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Travel, Lasts, Firsts

  Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (2000). “O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life”, p.661, Univ of South Carolina Press

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Photography is a form of time travel.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Photography, Form

  11 Copy quote

• He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Travel, Journey, Half

  Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Leaving, Around The World

  9 Copy quote

• To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Travel, Moving

  83 Copy quote

• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

  195 Copy quote

  Show source

• While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

  Anne Tyler

  Dream, Travel, Armchairs

  The Accidental Tourist ch. 6 (1985)

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Travel, Memories, Next Adventure

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All". Book by Yogi Berra, 2003.

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  Charles Kuralt

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  72 Copy quote

• When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

  Bill Nye

  Travel, Shadow, Fiction

  12 Copy quote