Top 100 Quotes About Wanderlust
#1. I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.
Elisabeth Eaves
#2. Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It's when you can't settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that ... it's a compulsion. It's the difference between lust and love.
Kirsten Hubbard
#3. Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live ... in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.
Anatole Broyard
#4. In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust
Mikhail Bulgakov
#5. Wanderlust consumed her; foreign hearts and exotic minds compelled her. She had a gypsy soul and a vibrant hope for the unknown.
Unknown
#6. A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
Pico Iyer
#7. The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.
Robyn Davidson
#8. The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things with my own eyes was the only way. My wanderlust was also a wonderlust.
Luke F.D. Marsden
#9. Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
John Dalton
#10. The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever ... I love it.
John Travolta
#11. Everything looks different. The houses are all these wild colors. The light is strange. It smells primeval. You're on Mars."
"You are talking about driving?" Lin attempted to clarify.
"About wanderlust," she answered.
Nicole Mones
#12. Rest stops have always made him strangely happy. He couldn't say why. Just the idea of everyone on their way somewhere, united by wanderlust, no one belonging more than anyone else.
Jonathan Tropper
#13. I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
Kathryn Hahn
#14. He's sick." "What with?" "Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust.
Rex Stout
#16. He was suffering from wanderlust, complicated by the tension of knowing that he was rooted to this town by something as simple as his name.
Jodi Picoult
#17. The Wonderlust
probably it's a worse affliction than the Wanderlust.
Sinclair Lewis
#18. The wanderlust crept up again inside her like a shooting star, a sudden, violent urge to escape disappearing into darkness again. She pushed down the afterglow and focused.
Eleanor Brown
#19. My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a gay guy? A warm smile, stubble, easy to talk to, thoughtful tattoos, kind eyes, wit, positivity, wanderlust, ambition, and a cute ass.
Tyler Oakley
#20. There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
Matsuo Basho
#21. There is an answer to this question, and for anyone who is well and truly afflicted with wanderlust, it is obvious. My favorite place is always the NEXT place--the place I haven't been yet.
Bob Krist
#22. But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.
Charlie LeDuff
#23. My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.
Scott Anderson
#24. You may not believe it, but it is what I desire the most in the world. This place has afflicted me with a terrible wanderlust. I long for the fire, for the sights you have seen. Yet here I am, two hundred years after I arrived. Still a prisoner, though I masquerade as a king.
Samantha Shannon
#25. Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
Vita Sackville-West
#26. An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust
Subhasis Das
#27. What began as hunger simply to leave Jelucan had ripened into genuine wanderlust.
Claudia Gray
#28. Wanderlust. These are words that I associate with him now. Not genius. Not gifted. Extraordinary in any way.
Abigail George
#29. The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
Upton Sinclair
#30. that wild charisma and wanderlust.
John Green
#31. All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit.
Andrew Smith
#32. This was what my spirit longed to do, to wander in strange lands. It couldn't stand being trapped in one body all the time. It had wanderlust.
Samantha Shannon
#33. ... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
Rebecca Solnit
#34. he came into this world infected with wanderlust
Ellen Hopkins
#35. But now I felt trapped, like a homeless person who'd been given their dream home only to suffer from intense wanderlust because we always want something until we have it.
Julie Murphy
#36. Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.
Cassandra Clare
#38. Early railway journeys took him to Ceylon, Thailand, and Burma; he would later describe his wanderlust as the "peripatetics of a Jewish prince".
VO Blum
#39. Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
Scott Anderson
#40. Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.
Tom Robbins
#41. To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.
Rebecca Solnit
#42. And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
Avijeet Das
#43. When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.
John Scalzi
#44. She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.
Nikki Rowe
#45. Will I ever get over the pull I feel to both of these places?
Sara Ferguson
#46. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
Pico Iyer
#47. Don't know. Don't care. I'm hopping on a bus and going until I can't go any farther. Until I find a place that feels like home.'
He's quiet for a long time. 'How will you know what home feels like?'
It hangs in the air between us, as frozen as our breaths. I don't have an answer.
Holly Black
#48. I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is written is thin and soft from being erased so often.
Lydia Davis
#49. And we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything I want
and be anyone I want
and go anywhere on the globe
and still call it home
Kirsten Smith
#50. The beauty he saw in her was the beauty she forgot to see in herself and what a beautiful reminder, that love is what will see us all through.
Nikki Rowe
#51. Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see but to be seen, not for their own experience but for that of a male audience, which means that they are asking for whatever attention they receive.
Rebecca Solnit
#52. There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! his heart seemed to cry. Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. Where?
James Joyce
#53. What if it's the there
and not the here
that I long for?
The wander
and not the wait,
the magic
in the lost feet
stumbling down
the faraway street
and the way the moon
never hangs
quite the same.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#54. I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling refreshed.
Sherwood Anderson
#55. What a funny old world,
Thinking they could cage her,
& make her fear her future;
Apprently they didn't know her well enough,
The cage, gave her wings to fly.
Nikki Rowe
#56. I want to turn my life into sad adventure and myths.
J. Limbu
#57. After two stories, I blew out my light. The night was clear. My ceiling was the sky and an eyelash of the moon. By shifting from side to side, I made my hammock swing me into sleep.
Gail Carson Levine
#58. In her fury she'd broken into Valencian, indicating the deepest possible roots in the land. I was impressed with how deeply she was from here, in a way I could never imagine being from anywhere, not even my home town.
Elisabeth Eaves
#59. To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
Leah Stewart
#60. Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#61. You have to keep doing it,
Even if no one is watching.
The best artists, are those
Who live from their expressions,
Not chasing the impressions.
Nikki Rowe
#62. Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#63. Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.
Rebecca Solnit
#64. Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#65. It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Edna Ferber
#66. I began to need my trips like other people need religion.
Kristin Newman
#67. While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.
Whitney Otto
#68. You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.
John Steinbeck
#69. The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.
Thomas Merton
#70. All my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.
Elizabeth Bishop
#71. And
even if our hearts collided
Can I trust it to be
what I've always dreamed ...
No dear,
it'll be so much more.
Nikki Rowe
#72. Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
Paul Theroux
#73. How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.
Sarah Reijonen
#74. There's something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
Charlotte Eriksson
#75. That's the place to get to - nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
D.H. Lawrence
#77. We both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted
F Scott Fitzgerald
#78. I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#79. Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.
Nikki Rowe
#80. The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.
Maggie Stiefvater
#81. He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#82. You won't find me dancing in a club at night but you will find me climbing mountains to see the sunrise, with a glimmer of hope and a smile on my face ~ this is life baby and freedom fills my days.
Nikki Rowe
#84. For Courtney's whole life, seeing the world had only been a dream, but now, as Adrian Diamond's daughter, it could be a reality.
Michelle Madow
#85. A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#86. It all takes time and lessons and places, but I'm learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to go, go, go!
Charlotte Eriksson
#87. He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them.
S.A. Tawks
#88. There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.
Elisabeth Eaves
#89. I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!"
"You will hate the next place, too," I said. "What you are you will carry with you.
Louis L'Amour
#90. I was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found.
Nikki Rowe
#91. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten Troost
#92. But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Jack Kerouac
#93. There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go ...
Danielle Steel
#94. Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Vladimir Nabokov
#96. Would you that ever find yourself walking the Road, trudging without purpose, seeking some journey's end, I give you this warning. The Road is a living being. She is an enchantress and She has a long reach.
Caiseal Mor
#97. Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you don't travel, you'll regret it. Your soul will forever be empty.
S.R. Crawford
#98. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
J.A. Baker
#99. Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.
Roman Payne
#100. It's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first time, something of magic is walking on this earth.
Nikki Rowe
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