Quotes About Wanderlust

Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travelers must be content.

'Tis ever commonThat men are merriest when they are from home.

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that's knew—I had to follow that path.

Nun war er also endgültig in einer Welt der Magie und des finsteren Zaubers gestrandet.

I travelled among unknown men in lands beyond the sea . . .

He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving roads, while the sleepless boy and hall light stood watch...

When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.

Quick now, give up this idle pondering! And let's be off into the great wide world! I tell you: the fool who speculates on things is like some animal on a dry heath, led by an evil fiend in endless circles, while fine green pastures lie on every side.

in real life, souls don't meet, they just wander about

He would once say that he wanted Leaves of Grass to be published as a pocket book, to be carried around everywhere: "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air.

in that moment I would have sold my soul to a tinker to be anywhere else.

So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.

Write where you want to go.

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I have lived in books.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

Travel is the dream of travelers.

Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost.

If life is an adventure, then a vacation is an adventure to find true joy.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

En todo largo periplo hay un momento en que percibes que el viaje ha comenzado de veras, y no suele suceder al principio, sino cuando sientes que tu alma ha escapado definitivamente a la rutina, que ha huido de los hábitos de la vida cotidiana, de tu patria, en suma.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.