Quotes About Travel

Of course world travel isn't as good as it seems, it's only after you've come back from all the heat and horror that you forget to get bugged and remember the weird scenes you saw

We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

I've got my full rucksack pack and it's spring, I'm going to go Southwest to the dry land, to the long lone land of Texas and Chihuahua and the gay streets of Mexico night, music coming out of doors, girls, wine, weed, wild hats, viva! What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgments and pray for the light.

Dobbiamo andare e non fermarci finché non siamo arrivati. - Dove andiamo? - Non lo so, ma dobbiamo andare.

When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of Metropolitan New York rising before us in the snowy distance. Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York.

With frantic Dean I was rushing through the world without a chance to see it.

The floors of bus stations are the same all over the country, always covered with butts and spit and they give a feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.

It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow

Basta seguire la strada e prima o poi si fa il giro del mondo. Non può finire in nessun altro posto, no?

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn't read - Sal Paradise, On The Road

But no matter, the road is life.

And for the first time in my life, the following afternoon, I went into the West.

the way to the bottom of South America where the Indians are seven feet tall and eat cocaine on the mountainside?

I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy...

All over America highschool and college kids thinking 'Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking' while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded

I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.

All I want from this book is a living, enough money to make a living, buy a farm and some land, work it, write some more, travel a little, and so on.

Si seguis asi vais a volveros locos, pero por favor mantenedme al corriente de lo que os sucede en el camino.

We were so used to traveling we had to walk all over Long Island, but there was no more land, just the Atlantic Ocean, and we could only go so far.

My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.

I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen and bedroom right on my back, and go off somewhere and find perfect solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, too, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world.

Nulla dietro di me, tutto avanti, è sempre così sulla strada...

Con la aparición de Dean Moriarty comenzó la parte de mi vida que podría llamarse mi vida en la carretera