Wander Quotes

839 quotes by 636 authors

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who… — Robert M. Pirsig
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is,… — David Byrne
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster.… — George Orwell
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me… — James Joyce
The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be… — William Wordsworth
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my… — W G Sebald
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can… — Carson McCullers
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many… — Mitch Albom
The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. — Theodore Roethke
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an… — Robert A. Heinlein
I do want to get married. It's a nice idea. Though I think husbands are like tattoos--you should wait until you come across something you… — Sloane Crosley
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make… — Lewis Carroll
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out… — Richard Siken
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an… — Frank O'Hara
You should have left him to wander,â€ Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. â€œWould you?â€ he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the… — John Flanagan
However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal… — Dorothy L. Sayers
There is at the back of every artistâ€™s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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