Quotes About Wanderlust

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

But after dark all that is most satisfactory in French life swims back into the picture—the sprightly tarts, the men arguing with a hundred Voilàs in the cafés, the couples drifting, head to head, toward the satisfactory inexpensiveness of nowhere.

Think of it as if you were standing on one of those globes with a map on it — I always wanted one when I was a boy." "I understand," she said after a minute. "When you do that, you can feel the earth turn, can't you?" He nodded. "Yes. Otherwise it's all just mañana — waiting for the morning or the moon.

it's time to hit the road.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body.

Oh, the continual drunken diversity of flights and departures! Eternal soul of navigators and their navigations!

Our all-seeing souls were caressed by the visible coolness of the mosses and, as we walked past the palm trees, we felt an intimation of other lands... And our eyes then filled with tears because not even here, where we were happy, were we happy...

Solo la debilidad extrema de la imaginación justifica que tengamos que desplazarnos para sentir.

I came here for no reason, as with everything in life.

Para viajar basta existir

Travel is for those who cannot feel.

Ideea de a c?l?tori m? îngreÅ£oÅŸeaz?. Am v?zut tot ceea ce niciodat? nu v?zusem. Am v?zut deja tot ceea ce înc? nu am v?zut.

I CARRY inside my heart, As in a chest too full to shut, All the places where I have been, All the ports at which I have called, All the sights I've seen through windows and portholes And from quarterdecks, dreaming. And all of this, which is so much, is nothing next to what I want. — Fernando Pessoa, Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems . (Grove Press; First Printing edition April 1, 1999)

highway after the boy.

I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.

There is something very appealing about moving to a faraway place.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'

I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.