Robyn Davidson Quotes

17 quotes in 339 categories

• The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult…
• I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
• By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep…
• The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was…
• To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of…
• And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them
• Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes
• I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.
• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct…
• Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
• That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home…
• I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.
• The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most…
• I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
• Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're…
• The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

Browse Robyn Davidson Quotes by Category