My 21 French Quotes About Travel

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My name is Louise, I’m French and I offer you a list of +21French quotes about travel.

These quotes are translated from French to English and vice versa.

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— Louise

21 French Quotes About Travel (with English translation)

I have manually selected the most beautiful French quotes about travel :

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“Le voyage est le seul remède qui ne nuise pas à la sagesse”

Ninon de Lenclos

Translation: “Travel is the only remedy that does not harm wisdom”

“L’aventure est partout, il suffit de la voir.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Translation: “Adventure is everywhere, you just have to see it”

“Le voyage est une seconde naissance.”

Ibn Battuta

Translation: “Travel is a second birth.”

“La meilleure façon de voyager est de fermer les yeux et de rêver.”

André Gide

Translation: “The best way to travel is to close your eyes and dream.”

“La seule façon de voyager est de rêver.”

Guy de Maupassant

Translation: “The only way to travel is to dream”

“La seule façon de voyager loin est de lire.”

Mark Twain

Translation: “The only way to travel far is to read.”

“Le voyage est une fuite hors de soi-même, qui se retrouve à l’arrivée.”

Paul Morand

Translation: “Travel is a flight from oneself, which is found upon arrival.”

“Le voyage est un retour à la maison”

Martin Buber

Translation: “Travel is a return to home.”

“On voyage pour changer, non pas de lieu, mais d’idées.”

Marcel Proust

Translation: “We travel to change, not of place, but of ideas.”

“Dans le voyage, il n’y a pas de certitude, seulement de l’aventure…”

Auteur Inconnu

Translation: When you are travelling, there is no certainty, only the adventure…

“Un des grands malheurs de la vie moderne, c’est le manque d’imprévu, l’absence d’aventures.”

Théophile Gauthier

Translation: “One of the worst misfortunes of modern life is the lack of mishaps, the absence of adventures.”

“Le voyage pour moi, ce n’est pas arriver, c’est partir. C’est l’imprévu de la prochaine escale, c’est le désir jamais comblé de connaître sans cesse autre chose, c’est demain, éternellement demain.”

Roland Dorgelès

Translation: “For me, travelling is not about arriving. It’s about leaving. It’s the uncertainty in what’s coming next. It’s the never-fulfilled desire of discovering something else. It’s tomorrow, forever tomorrow.”

“Rester c’est exister. Mais voyager c’est vivre.”

Gustave Nadaud

Translation : “To stay is to exist. To travel is to live.”

“Rien ne développe l’intelligence comme les voyages.”

Émile Zola

Translation : “Travel broadens the mind.”

Auteur Inconnu

Translation : “We do not travel to escape life but so that life does not escape us.”

“Il n’y a pas d’homme plus complet que celui qui a beaucoup voyagé, qui a changé vingt fois la forme de sa pensée et de sa vie.”

Auteur Inconnu

Translation : “There is no man more complete than the one who has traveled a lot, who has changed the shape of his thought and his life twenty times.”