voyage quotes

Voyager, c'est bien utile,  c° a fait travailler l'imagination. Tout le reste n'est que de  ceptions et fatigues. Notre voyage a'   nous est entie'  rement imaginaire.Voila'   sa force. To travel is useful. It engages the imagination. Everything else is deceitful and boring.Our own voyage is entirely imaginary. And therein lies its force.

-Destouches
  Voyage au bout de la nuit ( Journey to the End of Night, translated by John H P Marks,1960).

Sothat finding myself at present inorabout onehundred and twenty degrees off east longitude from England, it bred in me a desire to proceed on the same easterly course till I had ended where I began, and so to have once made one circle round the globe of the earth, which would have been a voyage of voyages.

- Peter Mundy
c.1640  Objections were raised and Mundy was unable to fulfil this aim. Travels (published c.1650).

Civilisation is a movement and not a condition; a voyage and not a harbour.

- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct1958.

La mort serait un beau long voyage et les vacances illimite  es de la chair des structures et des os. Death should be a long, beautiful voyage and limitless vacations of the flesh.

-Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock Tzara
  De nos oiseaux,'La mort de GuillaumeApollinaire'.