Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

My normal life is I love to travel, and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say: I'm a bit of a bookworm.

My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

Let's face it. Adventure and exploration are in my blood.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

If I don't travel, if I stay at home for a week, I would go out of my mind. That is just the way I am. I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

Ramblin' was in my blood.

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

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.