I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become read more

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. read more

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or read more

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

A wise traveller never despises his own country.

A wise traveller never despises his own country.

The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart

The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart