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Quotes About Wanderlust

Sometimes a man rises from the supper table and goes outside. And he keeps on going because somewhere to the east there's a church.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
~ Ray Bradbury
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
~ Ray Bradbury
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
~ Ray Bradbury
Don't ever be a Rocket Man." I stopped. "I mean it," he said. "Because when you're out there you want to be here, and when you're here you want to be out there. Don't start that.
~ Ray Bradbury
But most of all," she said, "I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.
~ Ray Bradbury
Watching the boys vanish away, Charles Halloway suppressed a sudden urge to run with them, make the pack. He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this, so the sadness could not hurt.
~ Ray Bradbury
Sabe que los libros huelen a nuez moscada o a especias de países lejanos?
~ Ray Bradbury
I've heard there are still hobo camps all across the country, here and there; walking camps they call them, and if you keep walking far enough and keep an eye peeled, they say there's lots of old Harvard degrees on the tracks between here and Los Angeles.
~ Ray Bradbury
Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth
~ Joseph Conrad
Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship;
~ Joseph Conrad
At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look like that) I would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there.
~ Joseph Conrad
I told you, Clara. I don't stay in one place long. And nobody comes with me. I don't marry none if them either. Erase me from your head because you're just not the one kid. Not just you're young which you are, but what I want is a voice. A say a woman talks to me, says things to me I don't know and am astonished to hear and I'll know her as soon as I hear her.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I told you Clara, I don't stay in one place long. And nobody comes with me. I don't marry none of them either. Erase me from your head because you're just not the one kid. Not just that you're young, which you are, but what I want is a voice. A way a woman talks to me, says things to me I don't know and am astonished to hear and I'll know her as soon as I hear her.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The voyou is the man who escapes everything that normally holds back other men: studies, family, civic duties, religious practices. The voyou is the adventurer of space, of impassable roads, of the immense freedom of cities and fields.
~ Wallace Fowlie
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.
~ Wallace Stegner
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...
~ Walter Moers
nothing to be done, except go see them. I also knew they
~ Waris Dirie
Washington Irving
~ desultory, and
I got around a lot" [bahu aham caranti] has the same double meaning in Sanskrit as it has in English—to move from one place to another and from one sexual partner to another—as well as a third, purely Indian meaning that is also relevant here: to wander as a mendicant.)
~ Wendy Doniger
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot
~ Werner Herzog
Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.
~ Daniel Kehlmann