Quotes about Wanderlust

I walk out into a Nature such as the old prophets and poets, Manu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America: neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I have seen.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.