Itchy Feet Quotes

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

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.

Some guys are on the road and can't wait to get home; others are at home and can't wait to get on the road. I'm definitely the one who wants to be home.

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.

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

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

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 saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.

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

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

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

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

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

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

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

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

I am a restless person.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.