The Most Fabulous Travel Quotes

Let me just throw this out there:  I'm a sucker for quotes.  Yeah, I know all the usual gripes about quotes that they're usually taken out of context or attributed to the wrong people.  But there is something about a good quote that makes me feel like I'm bursting with contentment. 

Here are a few of my favorite travel quotes.  Enjoy. 

 “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

 “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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber 

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

 “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling 

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang