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Travelling To A Foreign Country Quotes

Quotes tagged as "travelling-to-a-foreign-country" Showing 1-7 of 7
Shivya Nath
“How could I explain in words my craving for freedom, that longing for anonymity, the need to distance myself from everything I knew in my universe?”
Shivya Nath, The Shooting Star

Annemarie Schwarzenbach
“Of all the names that linger in my memory after a long journey, this one is the dearest to me (Therapia). Perhaps because it sounds so Greek, blithe as a swelling paean to carefree days spent on lovely shores? Perhaps because it came at the beginning and now belongs to a long ago, glorified time-for the journey had just begun.”
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Vann Chow
“Still he considered playing Pachinko the best investment of his free time, soaking in the local stench and bad breathe of other lonely Japanese people as an alternative way of blending into the colorful local scenes which he yearned to be a part of.”
Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl

“As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.”
lauren klarfeld

Stewart Stafford
“Travelling is the gamble of losing oneself and the confidence that comes from self-discovery in unexpected places with people you don't know.”
Stewart Stafford