Those Who Wander Quotes

#1. Not all those who wander are lost

JRR Tollien

#2. In Paris there are wide cityscapes like nowhere else. Habit has made us indifferent to them. But those who wander around the city - keenly sniffing the air, looking to be moved, to be amazed - are very familiar with these places.

Helen Constantine

#3. Not all those who wander are lost, Find your soul set yourself free.

Jack Coull

#4. Not all those who wander are lost. - Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering is the only way to find themselves.

Vishwas Mudagal

#6. Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

Shantideva

#7. Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.

Roman Payne

#8. Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

Joseph Stein

#9. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Due north' on my compass is largely 'due' to the fact that in 'due' time I have been 'unduly' lax in recalibrating my compass. And I'm apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I'm lost.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn't want to wander.

Pat Robertson

#12. If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

Jane Birkin

#13. We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

Carson McCullers

#14. Haunt an old house.
Ask for a treat.
Laugh like a witch.
Lick something sweet.
Offer a trick.
Wander a maze.
Echo a boo.
Exclaim the phrase
Normal's unnatural on Halloween!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.

Alfred Wainwright

#16. I am the breeze. I drift and I wander. I meet people and i touch their hearts. but people don't stay with me. They leave me. And I keep on drifting and keep on wandering. That's my life.

Avijeet Das

#17. The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

Robert Fulghum

#18. There's something about a boy who isn't allowed to wander off. There's something about a boy in a sky who has limits.

Hannah Moskowitz

#19. The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

#20. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Douglas Adams

#21. The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life

M.P. Shiel

#22. Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#23. It was a feeling in the crisp twilight air; it was a hush across the hills. The ghosts were gathering themselves, building up their strength to wander the fields of October and speak to those who would listen.

Robert McCammon

#24. Do you wander and wonder? Do you start at your own shadow, or awaken to rattling disbelief that this is all you are, prospects bleak, bereft of the proof of your ambition?

Steven Erikson

#25. A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander
Into regions yet untrod
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.

Willis R. Whitney

#26. If they're not willing to explore beyond the realm of their safety, certainty, and comfort, they will never know if their fantasies are true.

Brandan Roberston

#27. I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Mark Bradford

#28. Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

Dogen

#29. During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work no better than wishes on stars.

Erin Morgenstern

#30. Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone; but those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God's people.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing, if those vibrations had traveled into space, if they moved on and on like rays in a light-year. There might be other forms of life who were receiving the noise and trying to interpret the tones.

Jane Hamilton

#32. 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

#33. Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

Molly Ivins

#34. To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.

Margaret Wander Bonanno

#35. [In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.

Rebecca Solnit

#36. Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

Henry Mayhew

#37. [...] it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement.

Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

#38. The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

May Sarton

#39. She is a storm cloud of sorrow. You wander in, you may never find your way out.

Julie Berry

#40. Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we're going to stay lost.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#41. I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I wanna feel you in my arms again

Bee Gees

#42. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

Carl Jung

#43. Letters
I've never sent.

This life
we're only renting.

Battered the world is -
bartered -
wander over it
the stars finding

us wanting.

Kevin Young

#44. I hope you wander into a hornet's nest and die of an acetylcholineoverdose," I spat.
"You say the prettiest things.

Penny Reid

#45. When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.

Amity Shlaes

#46. Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts ... planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.

Renzo Novatore

#47. If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.

Richard Bachman

#48. You will not discover the limits of the soul
by traveling, even if you wander over every
conceivable path, so deep is its story.

Heraclitus

#49. Can I come ? " Blayne asked.
"No you'll wander the aisles and want to buy things that aren't needed for this process. But I will pick you up a couple of those giant butterfingers that they sell at the cash register."
Blayne grinned "Okay !

Shelly Laurenston

#50. Dandamis then looked at Alexander with pity. 'You have nothing I want,' he said. 'Once, you might have been a passable philosopher, but now you value no opinion save your own. You wander because you cannot bear to be still-you conquer because you cannot bear to rule.

Christian Cameron

#51. A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

Thomas Merton

#52. The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

Joaquin Miller

#53. I think what I'm after, a lot of the time, is just honesty. What accounts for the fact that the stories we tell ourselves - the story we carry around and think of most often - are the dark ones? Maybe we have to wander around in the darkness to understand it?

Peter Orner

#54. I had no idea where he went when he was not with me. Perhaps he enjoyed exploring new places as much as did any living dog, and went off to wander previously unvisited neighborhoods of Magic Beach.

Dean Koontz

#55. Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

Marilynne Robinson

#56. If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

Josephus

#57. For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

Anonymous

#58. In the bazaar of herbs and potions Don't wander aimlessly, Find the shop with a potion That is sweet.

Rumi

#59. I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.

Eleanor Tomlinson

#60. But at night, once I had taken off my makeup and my defenses were down and my mind started to wander, it seemed rather than new love sitting down at the table of my life to join me, old love managed to find its way back in ...

Mandy Hale

#61. There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

H.L. Mencken

#62. But I remain'd, whose hopes were dim,
Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth,
To wander on a darken'd earth,
Where all things round me breathed of him.

Alfred Tennyson

#63. Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#64. I am very defective in all duties ... In prayer I wander and am formal ... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

William Carey