Alive Quote by Ella Maillart

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

— Ella Maillart

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying…

— Leon Foucault

The moment everything in you stop moving it means you are dead

— Anonymous

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

— Bill Bryson

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

— Kenneth Koch

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive…

— Kiki Smith

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

— Benjamin Franklin

“People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve.…

— Adam Ross

“You move because you are built for movement, because your heartbeat and respiration are involuntary. Though you feel the part of you that is…

— Cai Emmons

“In the beginning of this record i tried to explore the nature of journeys, how they are things in themselves, each one an individual…

— John Steinbeck

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

— Agnes Repplier

Sometimes, you're just moved by people's journeys.

— Melvyn Bragg