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Quotes About Wanderlust

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
~ Aldous Huxley
I need to sing and I love to travel.
~ Britney Spears
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
~ Jack Kerouac
When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
~ Henry Miller
It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
~ Paul Theroux
Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on
~ Bob Dylan
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
~ Terence McKenna
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
~ Dave Eggers
I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.
~ Rolf Potts
Traveling would be quite perfect if only one could go home at night.
~ Marian Hooper Adams
One must travel, to learn.
~ Mark Twain
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.
~ Walt Whitman
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
~ Richard Hovey
I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.
~ Eric Stoltz
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
~ Patti Smith
I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.
~ Mikhail Khodorkovsky
I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.
~ Hermann Hesse
I tramp a perpetual journey.
~ Walt Whitman
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.
~ Bo Derek
Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.
~ Henry Van Dyke