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Quotes About Wandering

Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men... (The Everlasting No)
~ Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus
I love to travel and see new places.
~ Madhura Naik
When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.
~ Drake
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.
~ Nicole Krauss
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon'tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglassI'veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….
~ Nicole Krauss
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.
~ Nicole Krauss
He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.
~ Nora Roberts
the way he had of moving over the land. "And have you always
~ Nora Roberts
his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The charm of travelling is everywhere I go, tiny life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Spent the years wandering, mostly. Faffing off. Getting high. Sucking dick. Seeing the country. As one does.
~ Chuck Wendig
She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in every other sphere as well. Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of life and could no longer find her way back to the family of people.
~ Colson Whitehead
Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of life and could no longer find her way back to the family of people.
~ Colson Whitehead
The white man in the book, Gulliver, roved from peril to peril, each new island a new predicament to solve before he could return home. That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered—he kept forgetting what he had. That was white people all over: Build a schoolhouse and let it rot, make a home then keep straying.
~ Colson Whitehead
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
~ Virginia Woolf
He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The greater part of him was in a quite different place, while only an insignificant portion of it was wandering, perplexed.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
This, the dream and the dreamer, wandering in the desert from Hopkinsville to Vienna in love with a streetwalker named Music.…
~ Langston Hughes
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
~ Larry David
Here is an American epic, a wandering without a homecoming.
~ Larry Kramer
The good guys are the ones who wander. The ones with the ocean spilling from their chests.
~ Laura Resau
Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.
~ Laura Ruby
Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place, seemingly of their own volition.
~ Lauren Willig
There are many places that are not made for staying," Heckleck said. "They are too harsh, too hard, and too far away from whatever you call home. You don't root where you don't have to, unless you're unluck.
~ Cecil Castellucci