Aldous Huxley Quotes

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.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

For someone like me who gets bored very easily, this life is perfect. I can't be at one place for too long. Travelling broadens your thinking as a person and as an actor.

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there’s still so much more to see. I doubt I’ll ever cure this wanderlust, and I’m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

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.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

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