Quotes about Wander
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
- Hilaire Belloc
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
- JRR Tolkien
When through the old oak forest I am gone, Let me not wander in a barren dream.
- John Keats
It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world--oh, woe is me!--and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned into happiness.
- Charles Dickens
It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world—oh, woe is me!—and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!
- Charles Dickens
That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
- DH Lawrence
Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom : the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.
- Steven James
Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.
- Herman Melville
That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
- DH Lawrence
The hero wanders. The hero suffers. The hero returns.
- Steven Pressfield
When we wander off the path, that trust pulls us back; and we do not flinch, hesitate, or worry about being unwelcome in the Father's arms.
- Brennan Manning
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in.
- Henry David Thoreau