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Quotes About Wandering

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
~ Dorothy Parker
How many roads must a man walk down?
~ Douglas Adams
The Israelites of Exodus were a people on the go, not a people who had yet arrived at their ultimate destination.
~ Douglas K. Stuart
She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.
~ Agatha Christie
Vaguely reminiscent of a large bumblebee, Chief-Inspector Fred Davy wandered around the confines of the Criminal Investigation Department, humming to himself.
~ Agatha Christie
Lost souls, with nowhere to go, nursed their coffees and read old newspapers they'd found left on the benches.
~ Alan Furst
Glasgow is a strange place. If you don't have someone close to you looking out for you, your head will wander.
~ Kyle Lafferty
Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
~ Arvo Part
As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.
~ Ephraim Mirvis
Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.
~ Chris Messina
The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
~ Salman Rushdie
Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?
~ Andrew Garfield
Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!'
~ Dorothea Dix
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
~ Graham Greene
People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.
~ Robert Smith
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.
~ Stijn Streuvels
I got a Leica film camera and just started wandering the streets. What really touched my heart were those unexpected and unplanned moments of life observed.
~ Mary McCartney
I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.
~ K. D. Lang
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.
~ Monica Johnson
Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.
~ Wes Anderson
My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
~ Fanny Howe
The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
~ Alan Cranston