Quotes About Wanderlust

She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of dream. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself an angel, and her god was Beauty.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.

They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer's 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.

When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.

I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us.

Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.

I fancy there's a new one: Notes on the Tedium of Places-comprising almost everywhere.

I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going ? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

Now that she was conscious there was no end to her questions and exclamations, for Dot was a born traveler, meant to go places, unlike us.

C'est bon les villes inconnues ! C'est le moment et l'endroit où on peut supposer que les gens qu'on rencontre sont tous gentils. C'est le moment du rêve. On peut profiter que c'est le rêve pour aller perdre quelque temps au jardin public.

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

We enter as pilgrims, as wayfarers—knowing there is something we are seeking, something nameless, beautiful, waiting, wanting. Something that will change us so thoroughly that our cozy slippers will no longer fit, that our cat will, at first, hiss upon our return, our hair tinted green with lichen, sweet root tendrils among our toes.

Invadiu-o então uma coisa a que podemos chamar nostalgia de do exílio. (A Parasita Azul)

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Chi ha respirato la polvere delle strade del Messico, non troverà più pace in nessun altro paese.

Stars and planets, after all, travelled on predictable orbits - but the wind, nobody knew where the wind would choose to go.

It was late December 1938, and since then I have never been abroad, except maybe in my thoughts. And I shall never go. It's not because the Land of Israel is so wonderful, it's because I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.

i daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else.

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.