Quotes About Wanderlust

I think escapism is really important.

I take escapism from books.

When I left Estonia, I was 16. I just wanted to leave; I wanted to see the world so much.

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.

Les autres gens ont au moins un peu d'ambition ou une petite étincelle d'illusion pour se réchauffer les mains. Moi je n'ai rien. Je voudrais me balader dans le vaste monde. Toujours plus loin. Un beau jour je tomberais peut-être sur un patelin ou sur un être et je pourrais dire: ça y est, je reste ici, je suis chez moi.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

O ato de partir é o mais corajoso e o mais belo. Estar só, ser livre de necessidades, ser ignorada, estrangeira e nativa em todos os lugares e caminhar, solitária e grande, à conquista do mundo.

You are a gypsy, so you think it is only the freedom to move from place to place. Real freedom is a thing no one can take from you, because it is of the spirit. I keep it here. He tapped his head. [ Chapter 9, page 87]

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.

And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

But already ships were vanishing over the horizon and I was left behind, in this world of ours full of responsibilities and will-o'-the-wisps.

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city.

Come di tutte le cose, anche del viaggio la parte più bella era l'inizio. Partendo si correva via immediatamente liberi dal groviglio di affari e affarucci che gremivano la vita. Per un istante si respirava liberi.

getting lost is not always a bad thing

O, Bože, zašto si mi dao srce koje me bez prestanka vu?e za daljinom i ljepotom nevi?enih krajeva? Zašto si u?inio da sre?a moja uvijek boravi ondje gdje mene nema?

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.