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Quotes About Wandering

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
There was something enjoyable about wandering around the city alone, feeling forlorn.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
My mind wandered as I went through the motions of Catholic mass, kneeling, praying, and also with you–ing.
~ Jess Lourey
Is there any place we're not moving through? Disoriented, lost, at sea, at odds, astray, adrift, bewildered, confused, uprooted, turned around. I'm related to these related terms. These words are my abode, my only foothold.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
To Travel without moving an inch.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Chi non appartiene a nessun posto specifico non puè tornare, in realtà, da nessuna parte. I concetti di esilio e di ritorno implicano un punto di origine, una patria. Senza una patria e senza una vera lingua madre, io vago per il mondo, anche dalla mia scrivania. Alla fine mi accorgo che non è stato un vero esilio, tutt'altro. Sono esiliata perfino dalla definizione di esilio.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
~ Malcolm Mclaren
Don't follow me, I'm lost.
~ Unknown
Not all those who wonder are lost.
~ Unknown
Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.
~ Allison McAtee
They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time. By the end of the day, both realised that their lives had altered course.
~ Penelope Lively
daydreaming?
~ Peter Walsh
The wandering French essayist Jacques Reda reminds himself before he leaves his Paris apartment every Sunday morning for his long strolls around the city to see one new thing. . . . he has learned to notice what others ignore.
~ Phil Cousineau
Loitering on Earth
~ Philip K. Dick
It doesn't work," she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still.
~ David Levithan
Really, he could be anywhere now, because he wants to be nowhere.
~ David Levithan
You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back.
~ David Levithan
All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.
~ Dean Koontz
a wandering corpse, a bundle of mindless functions
~ Yann Martel
Out of three or four in a room One is always standing at the window Hair dark above his thoughts Behind him the words And in front of him the words, wandering without luggage Hearts without provision, prophecies without water, And big stones put there And stayed, closed, like letters, With no adresses; and no one to receive them.
~ Yehuda Amichai
No trail to follow where the teacher has wandered off- the end of autumn.
~ Yosa Buson
Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
From the moment we are born, we are wanderers, longing-for a place to which to return.
~ Unknown