Eve Ensler Quotes

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I have traveled the world by myself.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.