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Quotes About Wandering

Wandering through many countries and over many seas, I come, my brother, to these sorrowful obsequies, to present you with the last guerdon of death, and speak, though in vain, to your silent ashes.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
the rest of my days I spendwandering, wonderingwhat, anyway,was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry by which I lived?
~ Galway Kinnell
The first step ... shall be to lose the way.
~ Galway Kinnell
You are much too tolerant of mind wandering, and are passively condoning your mind's miscreations.
~ Gary R. Renard
All my life, I'd been hurrying to get somewhere, without the slightest idea where that was.
~ Brian Freeman
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
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
~ Buffalo Bill
the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.
~ Herman Melville
Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region
~ Herman Melville
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
~ Homer
A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.
~ Homer
from Crete he made his way, racked by hardship, tumbling on like a rolling stone until he turned up here.
~ Homer
One does not simply ring Roland. Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next.
~ Ilona Andrews
I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.
~ Jean Webster
Then we're all restless, Withal, because at the very heart, none of us know where we came from. Or where we're going.
~ Steven Erikson
peregrination has been anything but peaceful.
~ Steven Erikson
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home. – Dogen Zenji
~ Steven Heine
Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn't pay for.
~ Steven Wright
I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.
~ Steven Wright
There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.
~ Stoddard King
Ays is my lost soul, he though, my lost soul wandering.
~ Storm Constantine
I have loved a thousand times, taken lives, spread dissension, dripped poison into eager ears. I have caused wars, and stopped them. I have created religions, and turned them into jihads. Just the ordinary life of a wandering Grigori, you see?
~ Storm Constantine
As trainees, I and my peers were taught not only how to enter the soulscape and wander it at will, but also to manipulate the information and symbolism we might find there.
~ Storm Constantine