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Quotes About Traveler

For the Sufi Traveler, every journey is the haji, every tajalli is the Kaaba. Every path, if it be properly understood, is the Path; every way, however fraught with difficulty, can be experienced as a "straight" path to realization.
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
The traveler didn't see how such a place could exist in a world of Lithuanias and Polands. It was a testament to the insulatory effectiveness of political boundaries that power didn't simply arc across the gap between such divergent economic voltages.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his Breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-Besotted Traveler; he Served human liberty.
~ Jonathan Swift
There is a river whose waters give immortality; somewhere there must be another river whose waters take it away. The number of rivers is not infinite; an immortal traveler wandering the world will someday have drunk from them all.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Existe un río cuyas aguas dan la inmortalidad; en alguna región habrá otro río cuyas aguas la borren. El número no es infinito; un viajero inmortal que recorra el mundo acabará, algún día, por haber bebido de todos.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
If an eternal traveler should journey in any direction, he would find after untold centuries that the same volumes are repeated in the same disorder-which, repeated, becomes order: the Order. My solitude is cheered by that elegant hope.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
En diversos escritos, Simmel describió la figura de aquel que se opone a la seguridad de lo que llamaríamos a grandes rasgos, vida burguesa. Lo llamó de diferentes maneras: aventurero, vagabundo, viajero o extranjero.
~ Adrian Melo
YolculuÄŸum çok uzun sürdü, onun mesafesi de uzundur. ...Bu, senin en yak?n?na giden en uzak yoldur. Ve bu, bir ahengin son haddedeki basitliÄŸine götüren en kar???k bir sürükleyiÅŸtir. Yolcu, kendi kap?s?na gelene kadar bütün kap?lar? çalmal?d?r. Ve bir kimse, sonunda en içteki mihraba ulaÅŸmak için bütün d?? dünyalar? dolaÅŸmal?d?r.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I don't need to shut my eyes to go blind... When your blind time passes strangely Floating and dreamy in a way speeded up like the Time Traveler apon his machine.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Reisenden mit krankhafter Bücherstehlsucht (Biblioklepsie) ist der Zutritt nach Buchhaim untersagt und die sofortige Umkehr angeraten. Bei Zuwiderhandlung und Buchdiebstahl wird nicht nur der Diebstahl, sondern auch die Zuwiderhandlung dieses Verbotes drakonisch bestraft. Kehre um, Biblioklept, solange Du noch kannst.
~ Walter Moers
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot,' Mbejane went on softly, 'and he is wise he plucks it out – and he is a fool who leaves it and says "I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled." Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain.
~ Wilbur Smith
It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts their hearts, the day they have bidden dear friends farewell, and pierces the new traveler with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems to mourn the dying day.
~ Dante Alighieri
Just feeling a little out of place, Doctor,' said Jamon. 'Indeed, some small part of me wonders if I'll ever be in place. Well, not actually a place as such, but you'll understand what I mean. Traveller is what I am, my place being forever that of a stranger on any world, in my own small way – but with the Engines of the Empire being destroyed as we speak, that life is no more.
~ Dave Stone
She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.
~ Agatha Christie
I am a troubadour, a wandering minstrel.
~ Leo Sayer
I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
~ Brittany Murphy
An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination.
~ Ralph Seger
in English the word 'peripatetic' means 'one who walks habitually and extensively.
~ Rebecca Solnit
He waited for death as a traveller for a bus.
~ Richard Flanagan
If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.
~ John Florio
To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler!
~ Vishwanath S J
Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.
~ Amit Kalantri