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Quotes About Wander

Today I often said 'forest' to myself. Truth itself wanders through the forests.
~ Werner Herzog
Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when it's a book that asks for it, instead of a person?
~ Wilkie Collins
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
~ William Faulkner
Why wander through your thoughts when you could drive through them quite recklessly, with sirens?
~ Chris Cleave
Die Trichter Zwei Trichter wandeln durch die Nacht. Durch ihres Rumpfs verengten Schacht fließt weißes Mondlicht still und heiter auf ihren Waldweg u.s. w.
~ Christian Morgenstern
See the interlaced strands?' She touched the raised pattern with a knobby finger. 'These trace a never-ending path, leading away from home and circling back. When you wear this, you'll never be far from the place you started.
~ Christina Baker Kline
In Paris there are wide cityscapes like nowhere else. Habit has made us indifferent to them. But those who wander around the city—keenly sniffing the air, looking to be moved, to be amazed—are very familiar with these places.
~ Helen Constantine
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
~ George Best
I love a very alluring woman. I love a strong woman. I love a woman that wanders, that just wants to explore.
~ Luke James
I began to walk. Not back to my room, but out, instead, out into Dream London. The stars were so heavy that the purple sky bulged in the middle, sagging down to pierce itself on the city spires.
~ Unknown
America, there is not a place I can wander inside you and not feel a little afraid.
~ Tracy K. Smith
He nods, then squints across the room. Not all those who wander are lost, he says. He's still squinting. I wonder if he's practiced this squint - a squint-stare off into the metaphysical distance. I'm realizing he's kind of handsome. But then again, it might just be that he cares about something. What is that? I ask. Did Jesus Christ say that? No, he says. Bilbo Baggins said that.
~ Unknown
The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?
~ Unknown
In a routine that served me for the next few weeks, I wandered around the busy, seemingly safe part of the city.
~ Paul Theroux
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.
~ Dara Horn
We roamed between the angels and the eagles. Bats flickered against the starry sky. Moonlight poured down
~ David Almond
I am accursed and beguiled; and I wander round and round in a tangle that I may never escape from. I am not far from deeming that this is a land of dreams made for my beguiling. Or has the earth become so full of lies, that there is no room amidst them for a true man to stand upon his feet and go his ways?
~ William Morris
How now, spirit! Whither wander you?
~ William Shakespeare
What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content—all the great things in life are done by discontented people.
~ Christopher Morley
You will not discover the limits of the soul by traveling, even if you wander over every conceivable path, so deep is its story.
~ Heraclitus
As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country.
~ Hermann Broch
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
~ Hilaire Belloc
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