Wander Quotes

839 quotes by 636 authors

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand. — Dani Shapiro
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze. — Lauren F. Winner
Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind oÂ’er thy sickly brow, when… — Robert Montgomery
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. — Albert Camus
[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It… — Thomas Merton
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and… — Julian Sands
Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their… — Renzo Novatore
How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without… — E. W. Howe
The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in. — James M. Barrie
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. — Horace
The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He canâ€™t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, heâ€™s so distracted… — Kate Kelly
Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. — Annie Dillard
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall… — Blaise Pascal
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the… — Mao Zedong
A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams. — Wang Wei
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing… — George Sand
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to… — John Boyd Orr
I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot. — Hunter Parrish

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