Cities Quote by Thomas Wolfe

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land;…

— Janet Frame

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of…

— Paul Auster

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

— Richard Preston

“His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an…

— Thomas Mann

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it…

— Anonymous

Good thoughts his only friends, His wealth a well-spent age, The earth his sober inn And quiet pilgrimage.

— Anonymous