Daily life Quote by Laurie R. King

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual…

— Nicolas Bouvier

“It’s weird,” I said. “In one way I feel almost crushed by all the freedom, but the longer I travel, the more I feel…

— Kristine K. Stevens

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

— Anonymous

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

— Glen Hansard

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

— Ella Maillart

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

— Ella Maillart

“IT CAN BE STARTLING TO SEE SOMEONE¹S BREATH, LET ALONE THE BREATHING OF A CROWD. YOU USUALLY DON¹T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE EXTEND THAT FAR.”

— Jenny Holzer

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

— Elizabeth Drew

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations…

— William Regal

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for…

— Helen Garner

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

— Elizabeth Drew

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to…

— Bear Grylls