Wandering Spirit Quotes

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

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.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically.

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time. I'm a home-body and get fatigued by it fairly soon, but enjoy thinking back on experiences when I've returned and then often wish I'd arranged a longer stay in the somewhat exotic place.

As a model, you're such a gypsy, so that 'home' element is kind of taken from you.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.

I like the idea of marriage, but I think I'm a nomad.

I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.