Traveler Quotes - Page 13

• I'm at a loss because I am in love with a man who is standing before me with no memories of me at all. (Time Traveler's Wife)

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Memories, Loss, Men

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

  Steven Morrissey

  Sick, Graves, Depraved

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• It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. [...] An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals.

  David Sedaris

  Mistake, Shoes, Population

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Love You, Past

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• I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me.

  Dan Chaon

  Sorry, Thinking, Two

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Await Your Reply: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Travel, Patient, Problem

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.112, A&C Black

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• The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

  Gregory Maguire

  Accessories, World, Interest

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.73, Harper Collins

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• Time is not measured by the years that you live But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give- And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone That would brighten the life or lighten the load Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road- So what does it matter how long we may live If as long as we live we unselfishly give.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Years, Long, Giving

  Helen Steiner Rice (1988). “Sunshine of Joy”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.

  Lauren Kate

  Home, Sea, Long

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.314, Delacorte Press

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• As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Freedom, Air, Shapes

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.102, Verso

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• [death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

  George Washington

  Return, Abyss

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• The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Kings, Journey, Tourists

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• I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other – absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly.

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Circles, Two

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• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  Abraham Verghese

  Opportunity, Airports, Doe

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• The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Motivational, Men, Giving

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• The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord is stronger than any doubt and any hell of despair.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Blessed, Doubt, Despair

  Helmut Thielicke, John W. Doberstein (1966). “Life Can Begin Again: Sermons on the Sermon on the Mount”, p.65, James Clarke & Co.

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• Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Airplane, Men, Sea

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Nuisance, Sitting, Nests

  "Ex-Aide: LaRouche Extravagant". Chicago Tribune, December 2, 1988.

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• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Musical, Common Experience, Fields

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• I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

  Wally Lamb

  Cnn, Cities, Devil

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• Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know.  I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference.  If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

  Paul Bowles

  Moving, Differences, People

  Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.5, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Reality, Mortality, Explorers

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• The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Home, Feels

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• These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

  Toi Derricotte

  Spiritual, Stories, Literature

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