Quotes About Longing To Travel

#1. Longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Within my words there is a longing
To be written, through the senses to travel across the mind
To be perceived by your heart, to rest in your deep.

Preeth Nambiar

#3. The duke's eyes were dark, but there was a glaze there. Pride in his dark son.

Anne Mallory

#4. Because the biggest mistake of his life - his infidelity - had given me the best part of mine.

Christina Lauren

#5. Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;
Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;
Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

William Butler Yeats

#6. I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

Tom Waits

#7. If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Of course I long for her, but in honesty I must say that I would rather long for her than have her continuously present. Travel agents assure us that 'getting there is half the fun'; I might say with at least equal truth that longing is some of the best of loving.

Robertson Davies

#9. In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.

Yvette Christianse

#10. I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

Alice Steinbach

#11. I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...

Avijeet Das

#12. Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel.

Brian Staveley

#13. I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits. Though certainly one needs enough of those to finance the former things.

Julie Klassen

#14. You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.

Tom Dreesen

#15. But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

Jack Kerouac

#16. There comes ... a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Wendell Berry

#17. He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey--a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go.

John Steinbeck

#19. Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#20. Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.

Suzy Menkes

#21. Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else.
Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.

Heather Brewer

#22. If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.

Hans Reichenbach

#23. The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel.

Rebecca Solnit

#24. I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

Bill Bryson

#25. If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

Bill Walsh

#26. Peace ain't worth fighting for.

Brian Spellman