Elliott Smith Quotes

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I now walk into the wild.

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The journey is my home.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

I'm addicted to travel.

The open road still softly calls.

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.