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Quotes About Wanderlust

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~ G. K. Chesterton
If I've stayed longer than 4–5 days in any one place, I long to get on the move again.
~ G. Wayne Miller
?övalyelerin ve ?sa'n?n güzel ülkelerini tan?mak nasip olmay?nca, böyle lügat y???nlar? aras?nda yürümek ?u ana kadar bu gezegende tan?d???m en sarho? edici ?ey.
~ Gaétan Soucy
Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Nadie viaja sin motivo. Quien se pierde es porque desea perderse.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The best way to get to Margarettown is to 'try' to get lost.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The first step ... shall be to lose the way.
~ Galway Kinnell
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
~ Britney Spears
Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not.
~ Brock Clarke
I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul. Baudelaire, 'Any Where Out of this World!
~ Bruce Chatwin
He lifts his eyes to Jade Dragon Peak and, suddenly, in his silver greatcoat, becomes the living image of my favourite upland traveller, the poet Li Po: You ask me why I live in the grey hills. I smile but do not answer, for my thoughts are elsewhere. Like peach petals carried by the stream, they have gone
~ Bruce Chatwin
in becoming human, man had acquired, together with his straight legs and striding walk, a migratory 'drive' or instinct to walk long distances through the seasons; that this 'drive' was inseparable from his central nervous system; and that, when warped in conditions of settlement, it found outlets in violence, greed, status-seeking or a mania for the new. This
~ Bruce Chatwin
Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.
~ Bruce Chatwin
The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.
~ Bruce Chatwin
I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.
~ Bruce Chatwin
What am I doing here? Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia
~ Bruce Chatwin
I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.
~ Bruce Springsteen
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
~ Buffalo Bill
Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.
~ Herman Melville
I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
~ Herman Melville
Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.
~ Herman Melville
Chiamatemi Ismaele. Alcuni anni fa - non importa quanti esattamente - avendo pochi o punti denari in tasca e nulla di particolare che m'interessasse a terra, pensai di darmi alla navigazione e vedere la parte acquea del mondo. E' un modo che ho io di cacciare la malinconia e di regolare la circolazione.
~ Herman Melville