3,660 Quotes About Travel

Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by and the stories we become

Feeling free is a choice that is ours for the making, ours for the taking at any time, at any age. 

​If You have Chosen a Destination, You Must Find a Path. if You have Chosen a Path, You Must Find the Destination. You can Never Choose Both.

It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it is your God-given right to have it... I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong in my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing...I came to appreciate that mountains make poor recepticles for dreams.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going.... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes.... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary.

I am of course lost in this journey I'm on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. so call me a fool, but I'm happy to be lost.