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Quotes About Wanderlust

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
~ Bernard Moitessier
I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.
~ Christopher McCandless
It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.
~ Aurora Aksnes
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
~ Muddy Waters
We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.
~ Jack Johnson
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
~ Hermann Hesse
Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds.
~ Anna Quindlen
She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.
~ Anna Quindlen
She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert.
~ Anne Lamott
Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I've been passing through for the longest time.
~ Anne Rice
It's the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word.
~ Anne Rice
Heaping every luxury upon him, I only sickened him with mortal sweets so that finally he turned from the riches I offered, becoming a vagabond.
~ Anne Rice
Every place I go I miss another place.
~ Anne Tyler
I think I was born with a suitcase.
~ Sherman Alexie
The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.
~ Conor Oberst
I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.
~ Erin Morgenstern
We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
~ PJ Harvey
Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
~ Salman Rushdie
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.
~ Stef Penney
Life is adventure. Travel is adventure at a different address.
~ Kathy Griffin
The best education I've had in my life is to travel.
~ Matthew McConaughey
If with me you'd fondly stray.Over the hills and far away.
~ John Gay