Quotes About Wanderlust

Un paese ci vuole, non fosse che per il gusto di andarsene via.

I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.

Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.

There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.

Indeed, dear boy, I do want to go with all my heart if I really ought. I have always wanted to see the ocean and I can't imagine any place I'd rather go. ? - Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation.? ?

Some days I think this one place isn't enough. That's when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and be allowed to love without limits. Those days, like today, I walk with a purpose but no destinations. Only then do I see, at least momentarily, that everything is here. — Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home (Penguin, 1992)

Mon beau navire ô ma mémoire Avons-nous assez navigué Dans une onde mauvaise à boire Avons-nous assez divagué De la belle aube au triste soir

Les livres ont une singularité qui confine à la magie : ils sont un passeport pour l'ailleurs, une grande évasion.

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.

El Von Humboldt barriobajero explorador, sabio y buscador de nuevas especies, ha creído encontrar un antro del tamaño de su melancolía.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Ese soy yo, que al caso cruzo el mundo, sin pensar de donde vengo, ni adonde mis pasos me llevarán

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

I travel all the time.

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job it would let me go around the world.

But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

Perhaps I have reason to believe that I had somewhere else to be.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! his heart seemed to cry. Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. Where?

He had tales of distant countries.