Wander Quotes
839 quotes by 636 authors
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive…
— Thomas Hardy
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Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find…
— Alessandro Baricco
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Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog…
— Isaac Marion
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…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into…
— Louisa May Alcott
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What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to…
— Yasmine Galenorn
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
— John Milton
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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom…
— Virginia Woolf
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This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never…
— Veronica Roth
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Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little…
— Paullina Simons
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Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that…
— MaryJanice Davidson
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Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one…
— Jay-Z
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The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander…
— John Dryden
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Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library…
— Neal Shusterman
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The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell…
— Charlaine Harris
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