Quotes About Wanderlust

Through the mountains you go as a breeze comes

Para mí los libros fueron como la misma selva en que me perdía, en que continuaba perdiéndome.

U tebi rijeke pjevaju, s njima duša mi bježi onako kako želiš i donde dokle ho?eš.

Her secret, we would discover, was that once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

Yet I can walk away from best friends and rarely think of them again. I can close a door and not look back. There's something about my soul that's always ready to go, to break camp, to unfold the road map, to leave at night when the house inspection's done and the civilians are asleep and the open road is calling...

On the road, he was alive, vibrant, moving. It didn't afford the freedom of a jet plane flying through a clear sky, but a highway offered something almost as profound, an entry into the secret regions of the earth where towns with foreign, unrecallable names were violated once, then forgotten for all time.

He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.

A train is a poem that will take you anywhere you want to go.

How I yearn to throw myself into endless space, said Maggie, and float above the awful abyss.

my thoughts were so entirely bent upon seeing the world

The screen shows me Portugal. The screen shows me Cairo. They have a thing where you can wander the streets. I can go anywhere I want is what the screen keeps telling me. Try this. Try there. Go around here. The world's wide open. You can wander anyplace and you'll be alone there, too.

The car is my father's magic carpet. Not only does it get him places, but it shows him places.

To get in cars and drive down roads all over the country, all over the world, to drive just as slowly as the law will allow—although the law, especially as it pertains to speed limits, is not something Edward Bloom respects: twenty in town is too fast for him; the highways are madness. How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

His cars were his magic carpets.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

"I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me."

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

Uncle Burley said hills always looked blue when you were far away from them. That was a pretty color for hills; the little houses and barns and fields looked so neat and quiet tucked against them. It made you want to be close to them. But he said that when you got close they were like the hills you'd left, and when you looked back your own hills were blue and you wanted to go back again. He said he reckoned a man could wear himself out going back and forth.

I prefer books that take me on a journey, whether it's across vast distances and epic landscapes or one that twists and turns and surprises me with what happens on each page.

He studied the stars, and guided his caravans across mountains and deserts by tracing his route in the sky.

Quando tutto ti ricorda qualche altro posto è segno che stai viaggiando da troppo tempo.

My, my. A body does get around.

He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.