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Quotes About Wander

Brooding on God, I may become a man.Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.
~ Theodore Roethke
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
~ Theodore Roethke
Though parted our two loving souls combine, For mine is all your own and yours is mine. Two riddles to the world we represent, One answer each the other's deep lament. But if our parting severs us in two, One radiant light envelops me and you, As from another world - though blocked and barred What there is one, down here is forced apart. Yet if despairing bodies separate, Souls freely wander and communicate.
~ Nizami Ganjavi
strolled around, here to see and do
~ Nora Roberts
To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished leaving behind the pattern of its restlessness: counterfeit boarders, unmapped peoples. The road forks and wanders wherever you are. It is not a single way, but many: a web of choices.
~ Colin Thubron
If you stand a lantern under a tree every insect in the forest creeps up to it—a curious assembly, since though they scramble and swing and knock their heads against the glass, they seem to have no purpose—something senseless inspires them.
~ Virginia Woolf
All the trees in the world are journeying somewhere. Perpetual pilgrimage.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The good guys are the ones who wander. The ones with the ocean spilling from their chests.
~ Laura Resau
Second, we need to savor moments as they come. A lot of time and life management is mental. The human brain easily wanders and it wanders more to worries than to happy musings on what a blessed life you have. Such ruminations steal happiness.
~ Laura Vanderkam
Allow yourself to wander and travel through your world for one day without resorting to dividing the world up into pairs of opposites. The Journey Without Aim is often propitious.
~ Laurence Galian
It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world--oh, woe is me!--and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned into happiness.
~ Charles Dickens
It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world—oh, woe is me!—and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!
~ Charles Dickens
As he walked past shops and teahouses he could still
~ Greg Egan
Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events.
~ James Joyce
There's music along the river For Love wanders there
~ James Joyce
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
~ Thomas Fuller
Today, I'll simply wander. Head off in one direction or another and keep walking. Until I feel like stopping.
~ Thomas King
Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
~ Thomas Moore
The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago.
~ Norton Juster
it shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.
~ O. Henry
Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat. Above all else they appeared wholly at venture, primal, provisional, devoid of order. Like beings provoked out of the absolute rock and set nameless and at no remove from their own loomings to wander ravenous and doomed and mute as gorgons shambling the brutal wastes of Gondwanaland in a time before nomenclature was and each was all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In what direction did lost men veer?
~ Cormac McCarthy
He told the boy that although he was huérfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this passion he would become estranged from men and so ultimately from himself.
~ Cormac McCarthy