Scott Kelly Quotes

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

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

One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

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

He traveled in order to come home.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

Journey is my life now.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

I'm going on an adventure!

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.