Paul Theroux Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Observer, October 07, 1979.

• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

  Paul Theroux

  Funny, Travel, Grateful

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.85, Ivy Books

• There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Simple, Journey

• The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, Matter, Voyages

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

  Paul Theroux

  Life Lesson, Book, Good Luck

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

  Paul Theroux

  Reading, Journey, Discovery

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining car, and the certain knowledge that neither of us would see each other again.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, People, Car

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