Mata Hari Quotes

Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that she'd been glad for her solitude, bu the truth was, there were times she'd been starved for touch. Any touch.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

I like any place that isn't here.

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

And after I dropped him off, I took the longest possible route home... I explored alleys and hidden roads I never knew existed. I discovered neighborhoods entirely new to me. And finally... I discovered I was sick of this town and everything in it.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

The journey is my home.

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.