Quotes About Wanderlust

She walks away as if she were going to disappear. I wonder if I'll ever see her again." I turned and saw her yellow blouse receding into the distance as she walked along the busy street. She looked like a balloon someone had let loose in the sky. We watched her go.

I saw myself reflected in the glass of the large terrace window while black gloom spread over the rain-hounded night panorama. I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying. Suddenly, to see that the world was so large, the cosmos so black. The unbounded fascination of it, the unbounded loneliness... for the first time these days, i was touching it with these hands, these eyes. I've been looking at the world half-blind, i thought.

I've traveled a long way today, I often think to myself.

Potevo andare in qualunque posto, fare qualunque cosa. Stavo toccando con mano e vedendo con i miei occhi quanto fosse immenso il mondo e profonda l'oscurità e l'infinito fascino e solitudine di tutto ciò.

Non avevo al mondo nessuno del mio sangue, potevo andare in qualunque posto, fare qualunque cosa. Provai una sorta di vertigine. Stavo toccando con mano e vedendo con i miei occhi, per la prima volta, quanto fosse immenso il mondo e profonda l'oscurità e l'infinito fascino e solitudine di tutto ciò.

When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea.

I met one man who refused to speak of the earth, and was always talking about "going on." I reminded him that if he went on far enough he would come back to the place from which he started.

We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants--that needs--to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new traveler's checks, buy new souvenirs, order new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to french-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

At 18, I took a Greyhound bus to New York City, and then I was in city after city, so I was just dying to get to the country. Everywhere I'd go, I'd just shoot out to a national park somewhere and reconnect.

It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world.

I've never been to Hawaii. It looks amazing.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

There are so many fun places to hike.

Here I was alone, and could take my own time. In other parts of the world one always seems to be in a great hurry, tearing from one spot to the other at a gallop, but out yonder, perhaps because distances are so great, time don't seem to matter; you can jog along, breathing fresh air and enjoying the scenery and your own thoughts about women and home and hunting and booze and money and what may lie over the next hill.

Having come so close to losing everything, I am freed now of all fear, hesitation, and timidity, and, once revived, intend to devoutly wander the earth, imbibing, smelling, sampling, loving whomever I please; touching, tasting, standing very still among the beautiful things of this world

people usually choose the place they get lost in

We must be magnetic." "And attract adventures

MYSTERY OF THE TRAVELING

Sentivo il sapere della vita d'ogni giorno, che non va da nessuna parte, e sta sospesa come una nuvola sopra un burrone. Per questo i viaggi ti ubriacano subito, si diventa assuefatti all'eccitazione degli spostamenti, allora sembra che la vita debba andare da qualche parte...

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.