Quotes about Wanderlust

Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

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.

One must travel, to learn.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

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.

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...