Top 58 Vagabond Quotes
#2. His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.
Rabindranath Tagore
#3. Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.
Thomas Ligotti
#4. The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland.
Neal Stephenson
#5. It's like you said all those months ago - people expect the Vagabond to be a hero. I have to act like one. -Kara
S.M. Boyce
#6. Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
G.K. Chesterton
#7. The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.
Richard Halliburton
#8. There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.
William Faulkner
#9. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
George Bernard Shaw
#11. There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.
William Bliss
#12. Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
Patti Smith
#14. The Jew is a Vagabond by identity, he/she after all was never an Israelite.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#15. Where does such tenderness come from
And what do I do with it, you, sly,
Adolescent, vagabond singer,
Whose lashes couldn't be longer?
Marina Tsvetaeva
#16. You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
Agnes Varda
#17. The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#18. There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
Rubem Alves
#19. As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.
Joel Kinnaman
#20. In a war one is either living like a prince or a vagabond. I
Susanna Clarke
#21. This common body, like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, to rot itself with motion
William Shakespeare
#22. The Vagabond one told me what that clover symbol means. He said it represents the four primary roads you can take in life: happiness, hatred, success, and failure. They are balanced shoices, always intertwined with each other, and whichever of the four paths you take will lead you down another.
S.M. Boyce
#23. An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#25. To the steampunk community, including artisans like Richard "Doc" Nagy (sadly lost to us) and musicians like Professor Elemental, Steam Powered Giraffe, Vagabond Opera, and Abney Park. You are an endless source of joy and inspiration,
Lisa Mantchev
#26. I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.
Lykke Li
#27. We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
Agnes Varda
#28. It's too late," she said, her voice trembling. "You are not the beautiful innocent vagabond walking toward me under the dogwood blossoms, with his trunks and his head full of worthless notions. And I am not the beloved, cherished ladies' maid ...
Geraldine Brooks
#29. I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond!
Sophie Thompson
#30. I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.
Kevin Bacon
#31. This man, a vagabond, hunter, and trapper, had always been strange in the eyes of his primitive associates.
H.P. Lovecraft
#32. 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
Eddi Reader
#33. I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life ... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.
Charles Dickens
#34. I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.
Annie E. Clark
#35. Vagabond Circus was about change. It moved from place to place, and reconfigured based on available performers. The ringmaster loved that about the circus. "Without change, we are dead," he often said.
Sarah Noffke
#36. The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue.
Toyin Odutola
#37. On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.
Jason Reeves
#38. A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
George Bernard Shaw
#39. He was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to abandon the life of a solitary vagabond, stop running so hard from intimacy, and become a member of the human community.
Jon Krakauer
#40. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith
#41. Today we remember the man who brought magic back to this world by lighting a spark in all of you. You are all his legacy. You are the magic of Vagabond Circus.
Sarah Noffke
#42. I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.
Jeff Garcia
#43. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
Annie Dillard
#44. Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.
Thomas Browne
#45. In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply a happy go-lucky kind of guy who likes to work as little as possible in order to enjoy each and every day to the fullest.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#46. Love is really the most beautiful show. It can't rehearsed. It can't be planned. It is the product of magic. It is what Vagabond Circus is all about.
Sarah Noffke
#47. I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
Amy Tan
#48. Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.
Don Blanding
#49. Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus.
Sarah Noffke
#50. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. Brewer
#51. Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.
Terry Kay
#52. I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they've built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.
Jackie Haze
#53. 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
#54. Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?
Trevor D. Richardson
#55. 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
#56. I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
Everett Ruess
Jon Krakauer
#57. I know where nowhere is, I know where nowhere leads, it's the place you go when you have nothing left to lose but you.
Jenim Dibie
#58. After all, I wasn't even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.
J.D. Brewer
