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Quotes About Travelers

The gate was packed with weary travelers, most of them standing and huddled along the walls because the meager allotment of plastic chairs had long since been taken. Every plane that came and went held at least eighty passengers, yet the gate had seats for only a few dozen.
~ John Grisham
All around these streets , the dead and forgotten - mostly travellers born three thousand miles away, and four hundred years once dreamed and schemed, full of sound and fury. They were real and vital, as yet undimmed by posterity, and lived and loved with every imaginable kind of human feeling until at last they returned to dust.
~ Unknown
After a fast lunch, Lucas, Letty, and Skye went over to Swede Hollow Park to look for other travelers. They found three, sitting together, passing a joint, and Skye told them about Henry—one of the three knew him—and asked about Pilate. None of them knew him, or had heard about him.
~ John Sandford
There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.
~ Jane Bowles
Life is a journey in which we are all travelers.
~ Unknown
We do not own this place, we are just passengers
~ Robert Redford
It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach would be to the expect the worst, the very worst, that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.
~ Martha Gellhorn
The moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. —Bash?: Oku-no-hosomichi
~ Matsuo Bash?
All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.
~ Unknown
The raft was seized, with a noise like needles knitting, and we were hemmed in for winter -- river and the old channel's oxbow lake having frozen solid. By now, we guessed we were not two ordinary river travelers...it must have been the river that was extraordinary: a marvel that protected us by the same mysterious action that had given a common horse wings and changed a woman into a laurel tree.
~ Norman Lock
Simply by the eternal laws of coincidence the key to room number nine gets lost most often by distracted travelers.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
We Ruh are travelers. Our lives are composed of meetings and partings with brief, bright acquaintances in-between. - Kvothe
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I thought about it so much I could almost enter it: the Café Nerval, a small haven where poets and travelers might find the simplicity of asylum.
~ Patti Smith
In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.
~ Judges 5:6
In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.
~ 2 Chronicles 15:5
The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
~ Job 6:19
And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.
~ Ezekiel 39:11