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Quotes About Wanderlust

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
~ Pico Iyer
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
~ Guy de Maupassant
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
~ Alan Rickman
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
~ Pat Conroy
To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
~ John Donne
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
~ Michael Palin
The journey itself is my home.
~ Bash? Matsuo
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
~ Charles Simic
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
~ Horace
Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.
~ Alex Garland, The Beach
Paris is always a good idea.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Once a year go someplace you've never been.
~ Dalai Lama
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
~ John Cheever
Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.
~ George Leigh Mallory
To travel is to possess the world
~ Elias Burton Holmes
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
~ Herman Melville
The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.
~ Wayne Dyer
Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.
~ Lewis Black
I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.
~ Lord Dunsany
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
~ Ilka Chase