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Quotes About Wander

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Dove va un uomo, quando non sa dove andare?
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
A bum wanders and drinks. A tramp wanders and dreams. A hobo wanders and works.
~ Jess Walter
Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. The concepts of exile and return imply a point of origin, a homeland. Without a homeland and without a true mother tongue, I wander the world, even at my desk. In the end I realise that it wasn't a true exile: far from it. I am exiled even from the definition of exile.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere. The concepts of exile and return imply a point of origin, a homeland. Without a homeland and without a true mother tongue, I wander the world, even at my desk. In the end I realize that it wasn't a true exile: far from it. I am exiled even from the definition of exile.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Not all those who wonder are lost.
~ Unknown
Samo u snu Istim predelima hodamo
~ Unknown
The clouds, — the only birds that never sleep.
~ Victor Hugo
Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.
~ George Sterling
our minds wander off into all kinds of stories and fabrications and manufactured realities
~ Pema Chodron
One seeks to contravene one's perceptions - why? So that one can wander utterly lost, without signposts or guide?
~ Philip K. Dick
What do all men seek? I want to be happy. I would like a wife and sons one day. But I want them to grow in a land where there is hope for the future, where men do not take to the road. If that is a hopeless dream - and maybe it is - then I will sire no sons. I will wander, and play my harp, and weave my magick until the end.
~ David Gemmell
Do you wonder why we wander?" Cal had asked. It was the night of the first snow; you could hear the branches bending and the icicles falling outside the window, beyond the wall. They were warmth together. They were hot breath and blankets and wrapping themselves close. And Elijah had thought, I wonder why I never kiss you. I wonder what would happen. But he didn't say anything out loud.
~ David Levithan
If a man, boldest and most intelligent of creatures, won't wander from place to place, a stranger to all, beholden to none, why would an animal, which is by temperament far more conservative?
~ Yann Martel
Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
8000 B.C.: Mistaking Irish Channel for heavy fog, Scottish shepherds wander into Ireland. They miss their sheep and go home, but memory lingers for hours.
~ Unknown
if there's nowhere to rest at the end how can I get lost on the way?
~ Ikkyu
She wanders on like a poplar leaf borne upon a whirlwind of unconscious associations, she, her youth, her illusions and her former happiness remembered now through the mists of a ruined mind.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
O, the sorrow of us all, to wander the earth in a shell. And looking to the heavens, we lay to rest in hell. The suffering of the innocent in the midst of Jacob's well. How the miles fled between us, and that distance is still great. Though on the same shore we now sit, in temporal quietude to wait. The moon is our bright witness; it will lead us to the gate.
~ Unknown
There is this idea of 'north,' and if you're from Michigan and you wandered the Upper Peninsula, you know what it feels like. The sky has a particular vibe, a coldness, stretching into the upper reaches of Canada.
~ David Means
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
If anyone had unfinished business, he did. If anyone needed more time, he did. He was going to wander for years at the edge of my line of sight.
~ Joan Silber
I'm reminding myself: Force myself to wander; work at play; be serious about being silly.
~ Unknown
We wander on the earth, or err from bed to bed in search of home, and fail, and weep for the lost ages Before Because became As If, or rigid Certainty The Chances Are. The base hear us, and the violent Who long to calm our guilt with murder, and already Have not been slow to turn our wish to their advantage.
~ W.H. Auden