Desire to Wander: 43 Wanderlust Quotes
We always have this desire to wander, to move from where we are, go on places we’ve never been. The good thing is, the world is meant to be explored.
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.“
— Agnes Repplier
“Live your dreams, not your fears!”
— Albina Hume
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.”
— Jack Kerouac
It’s a thrilling sensation. It is exciting to feel the water touching your feet, getting lost in trail of forests, being exhausted from long trekking on huge mountains. How exhilarating to taste the food you’ve never eaten? Experiencing local!
You get to meet people of different colors, of different cultures, and discover how everyone is unique and beautiful in their own way.
Everything is worth more than just seeing them in pictures and screens.
Wanderlust is something we crave for. It is something good for our soul.
43+ Wanderlust Quotes
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.”
– Jack Kerouac
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
– Aldous Huxley
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
– Miriam Beard
“The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire. ”
― Robert W. Service
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
– Paul Theroux
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
– Pat Conroy
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
– Hilaire Belloc
“Embrace your wanderlust and never stop traveling, keep discovering new places and meeting amazing people around the world. Many years from now, when you are not able to travel anymore, you will look back and with all those travel memories with you, I’m sure you won’t regret it.”
– Joseba Umbelina
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
– Anatole France
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
– Agnes Repplier
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
– Roman Payne
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
—Martin Buber
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”
– Charlotte Eriksson
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
– Roman Payne
“The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.”
– Suzy Kassem
“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.”
– Aliyyah Eniath
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a while. Including you.”
– Anne Lamott
“A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
— Pico Iyer
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
– Azar Nafisi
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Cindy Lovell
“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”
– J.K. Rowling
“A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
– Katharine Butler Hathaway
“I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.”
– Christopher Fry
“Cover the earth before it covers you.”
— Dagobert D. Runes
“The wanderlust rages like a fever within him.”
— Raymond H. Huse
“Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita
“Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”
— Shane Koyczan
“Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.”
— Pico Iyer
“Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.”
— Diana Ambarsari
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
— Bill Bryson
“Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.”
— Katie Grissom
“But wanderlust is like a pretty girl – you wake up one morning, find she’s grown old and decide that either you’re going to commit your life or you’re going to walk away.”
― Charlie LeDuff
“Explore often. Only then you will know how small you are and how big the world is.”
— Pradeep Pandiyan
“I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.”
— Carew Papritz
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
— William Least Heat-Moon
“By traveling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever-changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.”
— Andrew James Pritchard
“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”
— Marty Rubin
“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”
— Alain de Botton
“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”
— Jacqueline Boone
“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”
– Jennifer Lee
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta
“The Wanderlust has taught me… it has whispered to my heart
Things all you stay-at-homes will never know…”
― Robert W. Service
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
– Randy Komisar
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
– Cesare Pavese
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― Mark Twain
“The symbol of joy today is travel. There is a wanderlust that infects the blood.” – Rollin A. Sawyer
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