Travel Quotes

Travel Quotes from The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

“I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.”

“I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.”

“I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.”

“Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.”

“Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.”

“Where did I learn to travel? In my ma and pa’s living room, sitting numb-legged for hours at the altar of the bookshelf, where all the glorious maps and books were kept, awaiting their next convert.”

“I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.”

“I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.”

“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

“I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.”

“I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.”