Quotes about Wanderlust
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
— Paulo Coelho
To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.
— John Donne
The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
— Theodore Roosevelt
One must travel, to learn.
— Mark Twain
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
— Henry David Thoreau
I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
— Henry Rollins
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
— George Eliot
Strong and content I travel the open road.
— Walt Whitman
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
— Victor Hugo
You wanderer on the path! There is no path, only wandering.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.
— Henry David Thoreau