Quotes About Wanderlust

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life.

Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair— He took her bag.

Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and wind in her hair– he took her bag.

My Carmen, I said (I used to call her that sometimes) we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed. ... Because, really, I continued, there is no point in staying here. There is no point in staying anywhere, said Lolita.

The few times I said to myself anywhere: 'Now that's a nice spot for a permanent home,' I would immediately hear in my mind the thunder of an avalanche carrying away the hundreds of far places which I would destroy by the very act of settling in one particular nook of the earth.

We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and no intention of arriving.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books....The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

I never understood until this happened to me was that if one's always going to new places, one never stops long enough to see the beauty in the old places.

Before anyone complains that they cannot fathom weekly excursions to another continent, let me clarify some definitions: A big adventure means something that requires a few hours—think half a weekend day. A little adventure could take just an hour or so, and fit on a lunch break or a weekday evening, as long as it is something out of the ordinary.

open prairie. For hours, Oscar had been

explore its murky and seductive reaches. Santiago spent two days sailing upstream

and free-flowing account in the tradition of other popular travel works of the day;

some individuals choose to move to remote and exotic locations

I think there is a fatality in it—I seldom go to the place I set out for.

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

Het trage, tropische voortslenteren, de manier van lopen van de flaneur, is de beste manier om een land te leren kennen. Ik lees, ik schrijf en ik voel hoe het land langzaam in mij doorsijpelt - haast is fataal voor de reiziger.

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.