Wandering The World Quotes

#1. Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

#2. The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Alan Cranston

#3. There is a river whose waters give
immortality; somewhere there must be
another river whose waters take it away. The
number of rivers is not infinite; an immortal
traveler wandering the world will someday have
drunk from them all.

Jorge Luis Borges

#4. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

George Orwell

#5. I had never felt like that before, as if there were a sort of curse, a merciless force in the light that shone on a world where life is borken and lost, where each new day takes something from the day that precedes it, where suffering is inmovable ...

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#6. Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

Marc Maron

#7. Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me.

Jennifer Niven

#8. The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.

Deborah Eisenberg

#9. Dwelling over this loss while wandering down Central Park West somewhere around Seventy-sixth, Seventy-fifth, it strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Bret Easton Ellis

#10. The world will be our oyster. We'll be wandering stars. We'll be footloose and free.

David Almond

#11. The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb
wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.

Charlaine Harris

#12. I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

Mary Antin

#13. In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that, in a funny way, when people are cooped up in rooms they are freer than when they are wandering about in the world.

Paul Auster

#14. The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#15. We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything
death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.

Elie Wiesel

#16. She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of dream. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself an angel, and her god was Beauty.

Roman Payne

#17. The world is vast and meant for wandering.

Nick Burd

#18. This then will be the shape and the feel of the world: an abandoned shell, signs of old life, curious animals wandering in and out of ruins, the wilderness crowding in, overtaking all human structures and human things.

Ben H. Winters

#19. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?

Soseki Natsume

#20. Luckily, just at the world's outer limit, right where a wandering soul needs it most, is a bar where he can get a beer.

Annia Ciezadlo

#21. I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

Anzia Yezierska

#22. The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

Allen Ginsberg

#23. They were two wandering souls drawn to each other by a shared understanding of the world.

Hend Al Qassemi

#24. I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Nick Harkaway

#25. This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

Freya Stark

#26. Wasn't it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Jostein Gaarder

#27. The world was not perfect. It was dark, evil, and full of monsters in human disguise. The world's a horrible place, and you were no safer surrounded by family than you were wandering the streets alone.

Natasha Preston

#28. She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there
like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

Katherine Paterson

#29. I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

Roman Payne

#30. We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

Henry Taylor

#31. Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road ... that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there.

L.M. Montgomery

#32. Comes he walking windy-ways, wandering under spruces and through canyons and across shadowy glens, hands in his pockets and head bowed as if all the weight of the world lies teetering on his slumped shoulders.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#33. The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

Bob Shacochis

#34. Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Douglas Adams

#35. She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.

Roman Payne

#36. The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don't suffer from my loneliness. I don't want life to be anything other than what it is. I am ready to let myself be baked in the sun till I am done. I am eager to ripen. I am ready to die, ready to be born again. The world has become lovelier.

Hermann Hesse

#37. To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

Dan Brown

#38. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

W.B.Yeats

#39. concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm

L.J. Buchanan

#40. The rough pitter-patter of rain against the tin roof caused me to stir in my sleep, but I struggled to fight it. I yearned to remain under the warmth of my thick quilt, wandering aimlessly through the dream world. But, alas, I knew reality would ease its way in and pull me out.

K.A. Poe

#41. I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#42. Tomorrow is the end of the world and I am just wandering around and thinking only of happiness ... .

Alexandar Tomov

#43. Travel does not exist without home ... If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

Josh Gates

#44. So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

Robin Hobb

#45. Half the world is wandering, the other half is lost.

Jenim Dibie

#46. As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.

Dada Bhagwan

#47. The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#48. A world of colors on the palette remaining ... wandering ... on canvases still emerging.

Wassily Kandinsky

#49. We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#50. All attributes of the relative self (prakrut) in the world have arisen due to lack of understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself so great!

Dada Bhagwan

#51. I know that we are surrounded by so much blossoming horror in the world that three puppies wandering off isn't very much, but I worry about it and see this simple event as the possible telescope for a larger agony.

Richard Brautigan

#52. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

G.K. Chesterton

#53. 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

#54. Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.

Samuel Beckett

#55. Ugh, why don't all men pierce their bloody dicks? I think it could bring about world peace. Like, seriously. Could you imagine all the satisfied, happy women wandering the earth after having sex with big, fat, pierced dicks? World peace, I tell ya.

Nina Levine

#56. It's strong, Ian. The way she feels about you is something else. She loves this world, but so much of the reason she couldn't leave was really you. She thinks of you as her anchor. You gave her a reason to finally stay in one place after a lifetime of wandering.

Stephenie Meyer

#57. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

Maya Angelou

#58. Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

Mariah Carey

#59. I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times ... The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

Gustave Flaubert