Irvine Welsh Quotes

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.

I'm always that dude that's looking for the next thing.

My natural state is a state of an explorer - a performer, but someone who wants to explore their experience and reflect on their experience more than just lie on the beach. Even when I go on vacations, I get stressed out if I'm at the beach for, like, two days. I'm like, 'Can't we do something? I can't just sit there.'

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

I have always wanted to see what the vibe was like and I was right It's on the Vermillion Bayou.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.