Quotes About Wanderlust

as long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live.

By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.

He read many books, he looked at paintings, he went to the movies. In the summer he watched baseball on television in the winter he went to the opera. More than anything else, however, what he liked to do was walk. Nearly every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, he would leave his apartment to walk through the city—never really going anywhere, but simply going wherever his legs happened to take him.

Me parece que siempre seré feliz allí donde no estoy

Baudelaire: Il me semble que je serais toujours bien là où je ne suis pas. In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

wandering is intimacy's helpmate.

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.

I'll show you a place,high on the desert plain.Where the streets have no name

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

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

All her stories seemed to involve rowboats and ukuleles, full moons and campfires and grog. I was desperately jealous.

I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris

For better for for worse I was born a traveler, wanting to go everywhere and see everything.

I never travelled," I told her. "Oh, you absolutely should," she insisted, "if only so that you can come home and really see it for what it is. That's my favourite part.

I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.

I lift my head from the pillow I see the frost the moon. Lowering my head I think of home.

If only I had a travelerís lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.