Wander Quotes - Page 8

• It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

  Thomas Moore

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Thomas Moore (1841). “Select Poetical Works”, p.55

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• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Lying, Adventure

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

  Kevin Kelly

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

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• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  Bob Marshall

  Passion, Journey, Civilization

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• It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.

  Matthew Kelly

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.16, BookBaby

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• O ye by wandering tempest sown
  'Neath every alien star,
  Forget not whence the breath was blown
  That wafted you afar!
  For ye are still her ancient seed
  On younger soil let fall—
  Children of Britain's island-breed,
  To whom the Mother in her need
  Perchance may one day call.

  William Watson

  Mother, Stars, Children

  William Watson, “England And Her Colonies”

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• Exercise thy lasting youth defends.

  John Gay

  Exercise, Journey, Hiking

  John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.43, Taylor & Francis

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• The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

  John Dyer

  Real, Artist, Landscape

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• O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

  Thomas Campbell

  Stars, Home, Science

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1839). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.121

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• Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

  Francis Thompson

  Spring, Home, Feet

  James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Past, Achievement

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Leisure, Atlas

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.25

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• Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

  Jack London

  Life, Afar, Facts

  Jack London, Anna B. Strunsky, Anna Strunsky Walling, Douglas Robillard (1990). “The Kempton-Wace Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

  Jack London

  Heartbroken, Stupid, Love Life

  Jack London (2015). “The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature”, p.111, 谷月社

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• My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.

  Josh Groban

  Home, School, Piano

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the mind would take over, and that's when I'd start hearing the music in my head or thinking deeply about people I know or things that I didn't even know I remembered anymore. Those thoughts would be there. I wouldn't have had them otherwise.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, People, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

  Danger Mouse

  Art, Talking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.

  Philip Morrison

  Fall, Editing, Choices

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Winter, Apples

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Not everyone who wanders is lost.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lost

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• One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart, does not suffer spiritual ruins - but he will also not have his own self-based constructions. Instead, he takes shelter in the shadow of the natural constructions, like rabbits under boulders. But one who has a human soul cannot take shelter in anything other than constructions that he builds with his own spiritual toil.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Spiritual, Heart, Light

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What man does not know,
  Or has not thought of,
  Wanders in the night
  Through the labyrinth of the mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Night, Men, Mind

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• Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

  Dogen

  Home, Eye, Land

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• I know what it’s like to miss someone. To feel like you’re just…wandering around, lost.

  Julie Kagawa

  Missing Someone, Wandering Around, Like You

  Julie Kagawa (2017). “Julie Kagawa Blood of Eden Complete Collection: The Immortal Rules\The Eternity Cure\The Forevern Song\Dawn of Eden”, p.549, Harlequin

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