Wandering Quotes

369 Wandering quotes by 310 unique authors

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our… — Cecelia Ahern
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the… — William Butler Yeats
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful… — John Milton
When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our… — Khalil Gibran
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see.… — Zig Ziglar
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level… — Diane Setterfield
I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death — Guillaume Apollinaire
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On… — Nicole Krauss
I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and… — Nick Burd
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
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
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
Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs… — Daphne du Maurier
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of… — Robert M. Pirsig
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into… — Edward Abbey
By experience", says Roger Ascham, "we find out a short way by a long wandering." Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel,… — Thomas Hardy
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations… — Mark Haddon
Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. — Zig Ziglar
Now don't go wandering off, William," she said with a meaningful glance. "I don't want to lose you in the crowd." Will's jaw set. "I'm… — Cassandra Clare
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes. — Unknown Author
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. — Saul Williams

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