Quotes About Wanderers

#1. (Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#2. It was at Long Huruk that we encountered the vortex of the dream time of which we had so far only touched the periphery, for this was the semi-nomadic community of mystics and dream wanderers.

Lawrence Blair

#3. Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest?
'Tis that every mother's son
Travails with a skeleton.
Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;
Bring the eternal seed to light,
And morn is all the same as night.

A.E. Housman

#4. Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.

Suzanne Selfors

#5. When the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are traditional signs of a dark age. Another is that people become poisoned by self-doubt and become cowards.

Pema Chodron

#6. May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

John Henry Jowett

#7. If wanderers were not themselves the cause, then like the scent and color
of the lotus in the sky, there would be no perception of the universe.

Nagarjuna

#8. Already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Joy Williams

#10. Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

Carl Sagan

#11. Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

Thomas Merton

#12. Paddy was just one of many wanderers on strange, lonely quests, striking out on mysterious missions, most of whom had left no traces.

Nick Hunt

#13. The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.

Rami Ollaik

#14. All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way; the whole sun belongs to the naked lizard who basks in it.

Colette

#15. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

Carl Sagan

#16. Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Samuel Richardson

#17. For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.

Lloyd Alexander

#18. Men are by nature wanderers ... Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#19. We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity].

Lew Wallace

#21. That's called being honest. Wanderers are to wizards what apes are to Wanderers.

Stewart Anderson

#22. The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

Robert E. Howard

#23. We aren't so different. Outcasts and wanderers all - souls clinging to the margins of the world.

Ransom Riggs

#24. Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
" ... unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

Gemma Hussey

#25. We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.

Karen Thompson Walker

#26. Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

Arthur C. Clarke

#27. From Eden's bowers the full-fed rivers flow,
To guide the outcasts to the land of woe:
Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields.
To guide the wanderers to the happy fields.

George MacDonald

#28. All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

Carson McCullers

#29. So your question, are we happy here? I say how can we be happy when we are mere wanderers without a home?

Helon Habila

#30. Many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

Mark Twain

#31. Since thy return, through days and weeks
Of hope that grew by stealth,
How many wan and faded cheeks
Have kindled into health!
The Old, by thee revived, have said,
'Another year is ours;'
And wayworn Wanderers, poorly fed,
Have smiled upon thy flowers.

William Wordsworth

#32. America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Theodore White

#33. A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

Voltaire

#34. The ancient greeks called all of those stars and planets in our night sky. "Wanderers." I don't think anyone has come up with a better name for all of those lovely suns.

Steve Merrick

#35. Men fear wanderers for they have no rules. The Danes came as strangers, rootless and violent, and that, I thought, was why I was always happier in their company.

Bernard Cornwell

#36. We are all wanderers and travellers, refugees and pilgrims until we return once more to the stars.

David Almond

#37. Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.

Anne Rice

#38. You are bound with a duty
To fill the world with beauty
By spreading the positive vibes
Be the lamp of wanderers guide.

Vasundhra Agrawal

#39. This is our place. Through the harsh waves, the lighthouse stands strong and guides the wanderers safely home. Like many others, who may be lost and fighting for everything, we search for the promise of its glow.

Matt Juhl

#40. I say you are tribeless wanderers, without marks of rank or blood,' Khasar said. 'Don't leave your posts while I am gone. I am going to ride into the city over your bodies.

Conn Iggulden

#41. The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.

Pope Innocent III

#42. The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

Rosita Forbes

#43. But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

Lord Byron

#44. We were wanderers from the beginning.

Carl Sagan

#45. There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, travelling the world and the seven seas but looking for a reason to stay.

Jeanette Winterson

#46. It is only those who do not know who wander the paths. A blind eye and a stout heart create a true wanderer. Those who seek the paths do so in vain; only those who can see deep might hope to wander.

Mary-Jean Harris

#47. The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Charles Lamb

#48. A good wanderer leaves no trace.

Laozi

#49. Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of the earth
or, as Ahmed would put it, a lazy fuckwit.

John Lanchester

#50. The voice of the waves was now mixed with strange sounds; laughter, running feet and the clanging of great bells far out to sea. Snufkin lay still and listened. dreaming and remembering his trip round world. Soon I must set out again, he thought. But not yet.

Tove Jansson

#51. I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

Charlemagne Palestine