Wander Quotes

839 quotes by 636 authors

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!… — Kate Chopin
If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone — Anne Fadiman
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and… — William Butler Yeats
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. — David Hume
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone. — Matsuo Basho
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. — Matthew Arnold
Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend… — Paulo Coelho
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking… — Milan Kundera
When I heard the learnâ€™d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the… — Walt Whitman
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it… — Galileo Galilei
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. — Charles Dickens
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
Wasnâ€™t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure! — Jostein Gaarder
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced,… — Hermann Hesse
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains,… — Rebecca Solnit
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its… — Rebecca Solnit
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know… — Thomas Wolfe
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too. — Jeffrey Eugenides
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life. — Hermann Hesse

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