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Quotes About Wandering

Aaron stared down at his pad of paper, unsure. He said, "So what would be the best word for you? Vagrant?" Reacher said, "Itinerant. Distributed. Transient. Episodic.
~ Lee Child
i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
~ Leonard Cohen
Dinted dimpled wimpled--his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nous sommes un cimetière à la dérive.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Not all those that wonder are lost.
~ Dwaine Mushimba
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
~ Hermann Hesse
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
~ James Thurber
I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
~ Patti Smith
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
~ Maria Mitchell
A circumstance occurred that renewed the misery, which, can now never quit me but in the grave, to which I look with no fearful apprehension, but as a refuge from calamity, trusting that the power who has seen good to afflict me, will pardon the imperfectness of my devotion, and the too frequent wandering of my thoughts to the object once so dear to me.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Oh, my home is not my own – I lament and rue. Answer, stranger yet unknown, I am seeking you!
~ Anna Akhmatova
We never quite learned to part, -We wander slowly side by side. Outside it's starting to get dark, I'm silent, - you're preoccupied. We'll enter a church and we'll see Baptisms, marriages, mass. A minute later, we'll leave… Why is everything different with us? Or we'll sit on the trampled snow In a dark cemetery and sigh, With a stick in your hand, you'll draw A palace for just you and I.
~ Anna Akhmatova
The first ray -- as the blessing of the Lord -- Across the face of the beloved did creep, Who, sleeping, went a little pale, And then again more tightly went to sleep. It seemed that warmth of ray of sun Appeared to him just like a kiss. And long with these my lips I have not touched The tan strong shoulder or the dear lips. And now, the deceased spirits in my long Disconsolate wandering along the way, I am now flying toward him as a song And I caress him with a morning ray.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I didn't write. I just wandered about.' Martha Gelhorn, novelist and journalist
~ Anna Smith
If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
~ Anne Fadiman
Moon girls, where did you go?
~ Anne Sexton
An homecoming that striveth ever more And cometh to no home.
~ Euripides
But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself--he could not tell the hour when, or the day or the week, the month or the year.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
With people like us our home is where we are not.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Oh, the continual drunken diversity of flights and departures! Eternal soul of navigators and their navigations!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Andei sozinho na praia Andei na praia a pensar No jeito da tua saia Quando lá estiveste a andar.
~ Fernando Pessoa