Traveller Quotes - Page 4

• In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.90, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.

  Russell Hoban

  Dark, Night, Reflection

  Russell Hoban (2002). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.80, A&C Black

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• In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Distance, Cities, Order

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Journey, Doe, Fool

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

  Gordon Bethune

  Air, Alcohol, Sin

  "Sex, scotch and speed" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Long, Sparta

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.433

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• Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

  A. A. Gill

  Night, Inspire, Firsts

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• O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
  And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
  Singing beside the hedge.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Singing, Cheerful

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.84

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• The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Long, Poison

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Missionary, Olaf, Barbarians

  1930 Last and First Men, ch.3.

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• So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The Cold War was two competing visions of the future. I was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. We do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. They are time travellers. They need confrontation and destruction to survive. The problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.

  Garry Kasparov

  War, Creativity, Past

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith.

  Eliza Leslie

  Heaven, Religion, Lasts

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.200

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• Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

  Laurence Sterne

  Travel, Owing, Littles

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• There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Men, Europe

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

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• The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

  George Santayana

  Travel, Character, May

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

  George Santayana

  Country, Children, Citizens

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.263, Рипол Классик

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

  Ella Maillart

  Spiritual, Moving, Intellectual

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• The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Blue, Sky

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fear, Moving, Home

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

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• Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Giving, Ungrateful

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.182, Discovery House

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• I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

  Henry David Thoreau

  I Have Learned

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Travel, Sky, Dying

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Animal, Agency

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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