Paul Theroux Quotes About Travel

Quotes about: Travel

• The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Moving, Risk

  "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road". Book by Paul Theroux, May 19, 2011.

• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Observer, October 07, 1979.

• Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Memorable, Retrospect

• 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

• It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Worst, Magical Places

• Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Kindness, Hands

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

  Paul Theroux

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

• The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Hassle, Overwhelming

• 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

• Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Memorable, Stories

  Paul Theroux (2011). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.66, Penguin UK

• The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Blessing, May

• Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Feelings, Mind

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Writing

  Interview with Michael Shapiro, www.sfgate.com. May 28, 2011.

• Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Novelists

• Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Reality, Delay

  Paul Theroux (2009). “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Home, Men

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Upset, Bazaars

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Lines, Vanishing

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.83, Ivy Books

• Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Landscape, Worst

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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