These time travel quotes will inspire you. Time travel (in science fiction) travels through time into the past or the future.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging time travel quotes, time travel sayings, and time travel proverbs.
Best Time Travel Quotes
- “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.” ~ Bill Bryson
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“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Don’t be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.” ~ Andrew Evans
- “Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” ~ Roy M. Goodman
- “Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.” ~ Ray Bradbury
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“If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “Stuff your eyes with wonder.” ~ Ray Bradbury
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“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like ‘Primer’ or ’12 Monkeys,’ ‘Looper’ is not about time travel. It’s about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.” ~ Rian Johnson
- “The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” ~ Mark Twain
- “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” ~ David Rockefeller
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” ~ Lord Dunsany
- “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” ~ Paul Fussell
- “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego … things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
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“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” ~ Helen Keller
- “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” ~ Christopher McCandless
- “I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” ~ David Attenborough
- “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” ~ Tennessee Williams
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“The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” ~ Paul Fussell
- “Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.” ~ Richard Francis Burton
- “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
- “As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.” ~ Margaret Mead
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“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” ~ Emile Genest
- “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people, you meet on them.” ~ Amelia Barr
- “Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” ~ Stephen Hawking
- “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” ~ Ray Bradbury
- “Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.” ~ Carol Lynn Pearson
- “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “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.” ~ Christopher McCandless
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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “…there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ~ Christopher McCandless
- “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.” ~ Harun Yahya
- “One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” ~ Richard Burton
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer
- “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ~ Lin Yutang
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“If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
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“Do not follow where the path may lead.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” ~ Alton Brown
- “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” ~ Chief Seattle
- “If you don t know where you are, a map won’t help.” ~ Watts Humphrey
- “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” ~ Ibn Battuta
- “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
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“According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.” ~ Pico Iyer
- “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads.” ~ Rosalia de Castro
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“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “It’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going.” ~ Jim Jarmusch
- “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends” ~ Cesare Pavese
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“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.” ~ T. S. Eliot
Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine.
