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Quotes About Wandering

Indeed, I am nothing but a wanderer and a pilgrim on this earth! And what more are you?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is true, I am only a wanderer on, a pilgrim on this earth! But are you more?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
~ Upton Sinclair
while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.
~ E. M. Forster
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering
~ E.O. Wilson
Revenge. That's what he had come for... But it didn't really exist, did it? Just empty regret and bitter heartbreak, wandering the streets. The city around him, white and grey and cold, felt suddenly so small. Hyde had been right about family, there was no escaping it... Even when there was no one left to run from.
~ Ed Brubaker
Most of my wandering in the desert I've done alone. Not so much from choice as from necessity—I generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go.
~ Edward Abbey
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.
~ Edward Abbey
Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting.
~ Edward Abbey
I must go walk so the wood so wild,And wander here and thereIn dread and deadly fear;For where I trusted I am beguiled,And all for one.
~ Anonymous
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
~ Anonymous
They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
~ Anonymous
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years.
~ Anonymous
All we like sheep have gone astray.
~ Anonymous
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
~ Anonymous
"I'll rest," said he, "but thou shalt walk";So doth this wandering JewFrom place to place, but cannot restFor seeing countries new.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home.
~ Anthony de Mello S.J.
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. "The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
~ Anthony Esolen
For in those days I had no idea that many of the greatest books are like a forest, and that the best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
~ Anthony Esolen
I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
~ Fiona Apple
I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.
~ Yuan Yuan Tan