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Quotes About Wander

Well," I said. "Nothing to do right now but wander the fuck into that abandoned building, totally unarmed.
~ David Wong
All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not wither.Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
I like to read fairytales. They make my imagination go wild, and I wander in fairyland.
~ Debasish Mridha
Ariadne in the labyrinth. The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble. I strew devastation as I pass. I wander dead-eyed through cities and petrified populations.
~ Jean Genet
The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
There is no road home.
~ Jeff Hirsch
taking conversation where he finds it, but the crow flies away.
~ Elizabeth Berg
All who wander are not lost!
~ Alice
With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.
~ Alice Kaplan
cold nights without streetlights walking to the sea perhaps
~ Alice Oswald
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
~ Alphonse Daudet
Una carovana non simbolizza né rappresenta nulla. Il nostro errore consiste nel pensare che vada da qualche parte o provenga da qualche altra. Il significato della carovana si cifra nella sua stessa deriva. Lo sanno gli animali che la compongono, lo ignorano i carovanieri. Sarà sempre così.
~ Alvaro Mutis
a few false turns, we found ourselves looking
~ Kim Harrison
It is a pilgrim's spiral path leads to this mountain's brow...It can never become familiar; you are lost the moment you set foot there. You know no path, but wander, thrilled, over the bare and pathless rock, as if it were solidified air and cloud...It is as if you trod with awe the face of a god turned up, unwittingly but helplessly, yielding to the laws of gravity. -Henry David Thoreau
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .
~ Knut Hamsun
Roads, observed the shaggy man, don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them.
~ L. Frank Baum
4. The Road Through the Forest
~ L. Frank Baum
We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.
~ Mark Twain
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon, For, wander and wail as he would, The pure cold light in the sky Troubled his animal blood.
~ Yeats, William Butler
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
~ young edward ii
Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Try not to let your mind wander ... it's too small and fragile to be out by itself.
~ Denise Swanson
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
~ Steve McCurry