Desire Quote by Rebecca Solnit

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end…

— Jodi Picoult

“I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my…

— Kapka Kassabova

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

— Anonymous

“it is geography—especially in the displaced form of departures, arrivals, farewells, exile, nostalgia, homesickness, belonging, and travel itself—that is at the core of my…

— Edward Said

“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin.…

— Rebecca Solnit

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...

— Rebecca Solnit

Having no destination, I am never lost.

— Ikkyu

I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to…

— Willie Morris

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

— Michael Ondaatje

“I’m learning geography is about loss and so I keep moving”

— Paul Guest

It's taken me a long time to figure out exactly where I fit. During that journey, I realized that everyone has a unique place…

— Brittney Griner

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

— Isabel Wilkerson