Top 38 Travel Wanderlust Quotes
#2. 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
#4. There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.
Elisabeth Eaves
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Jack Kerouac
#9. 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
#10. ... 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
#11. 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
#12. You can't make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?
S.R. Crawford
#13. Women have routinely been punished and intimidated for attempting that most simple of freedoms, taking a walk, because their walking and indeed their very beings have been construed as inevitably, continually sexual in those societies concerned with controlling women's sexuality.
Rebecca Solnit
#14. Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars ...
Jack Kerouac
#15. Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.
Unknown
#17. Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?
Richard Aldington
#18. Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.
Katie Grissom
#20. Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#21. Will I ever get over the pull I feel to both of these places?
Sara Ferguson
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#33. It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Edna Ferber
#34. While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.
Whitney Otto
#35. You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.
John Steinbeck
#36. Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
Paul Theroux
#37. 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
#38. 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
