Sometimes you need the words of someone else to express how you're feeling. Here are some great quotes to sum up your wanderlust...
1. “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
―J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
2. “Because 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...”
―Jack Kerouac, On the Road
^ Personal favorite author of mine.
3. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
―Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
4. “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.”
―Elizabeth Bishop
5. “While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”
―Whitney Otto, Eight Girls Taking Pictures
6. “This was what my spirit longed to do, to wander in strange lands. It couldn't stand being trapped in one body all the time. It had wanderlust.”
―Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
7. “What if it's the there and not the here that I long for? The wander and not the wait, the magic in the lost feet stumbling down the faraway street and the way the moon never hangs quite the same.”
―Tyler Knott Gregson, Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
8. “It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!”
―Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
9. “A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
―Roman Payne, The Wanderess
10. “You don't even know where I'm going."
"I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.”
―John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
^ Another favorite.
