Quotes About Wanderlust

was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere; sightseeing

I was traveling south in sunshine, euphoric again, on the open road.

every trip is unique.

I stopped simply to look around, in the idle curiosity that is available to any person with a car in Mexico and no particular place to go.

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travelers don't know where they're going.

How nice it would be, I thought, if someone reading the narrative of my African trip felt the same, that it was the next best thing to being there

I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace

Tourists don't know where they've been and Travelers don't know where they are going.

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travellers don't know where they're going.

But no sooner had I gotten behind the wheel than a feeling came over me that was like being caressed by a cosmic wind, reminding me of what travel at its best can do: I was set free.

Travel is not a vacation, and it is often the opposite of a rest.

If a train is large and comfortable you don't even need a destination; a corner seat is enough, and you can be one of those travelers who stay in motion, straddling the tracks, and never arrive or feel they ought to.

Reading about a far-off place can be a satisfaction in itself, and you might be thankful you're reading about the bad trip without the dust in your nose and the sun burning your head, not having to endure the unrewarding nuisance and delay of the road. But reading can also be a powerful stimulus to travel.

Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists.

to be anonymous and traveling in an interesting place is an intoxication

My ideal traveler is the person who goes the old, laborious way into the unknown, and it is this belief that lies behind my travel, and drives me.

All journeys were return journeys

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

A journey is an adventure. Henry Miller said that it is far more important to discover a church no one has heard of, than go to Rome and feel obliged to visit the Sistine Chapel, with two hundred thousand tourists shouting all around you. Go to the Sistine Chapel, but also get lost in the streets, wander down alleyways, feel free to look for something, without knowing what it is. I swear you will find it and that it will change your life.

Creatures like the sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.

Where will my heart lead if I've yet to wander so many unknown paths?

The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.