Patrick MacGill Quotes

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.

I love traveling.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

...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 try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

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.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

To go somewhere where nobody knows you, and to keep your eyes open... That was a beautiful concept in terms of putting yourself in a place to be inspired.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

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

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Generally, I love traveling because it's great to see new places.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

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

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

I'm passionate about travel.