224 Quotes About Wanderlust

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

Wie droomt omdat hij niet gelukkig is, moet wandelen, veel wandelen, doelloos ronddwalen in de hoop dat hij over het geluk zal struikelen.

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...

...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...

You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.