Wanderers Quotes

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

  Sterling Hayden

  Challenges, Foundation, Unrest

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.

  Aleksandr Kuprin

  Love Life

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• We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Stills

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Travel, Instinct, Solitary

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.583, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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• We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

  Louis L'Amour

  Dream, Taken, Wish

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.215, Bantam

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• I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

  Everett Ruess

  Thinking, Fascination, Wilderness

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• For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.

  James Kavanaugh

  Beautiful, Lonely, Men

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• He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Long, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.241, Courier Corporation

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• Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 193, 1980.

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• For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Stills

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.4, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Heart, Wind, Sea

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• A good wanderer leaves no trace.

  Laozi

  Taoism

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• We were wanderers from the beginning.

  Carl Sagan

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Eye, Long

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• Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Life, Smile

  "The Sandman: The Kindly Ones". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Rivers, Fields

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.40, Pearson Education

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• Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

  James Thurber

  Party, Two, Three

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.355, Library of America

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• I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Hands

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• Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

  Horace

  Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Heart, Sunset

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

  Stephen King

  Guy, Definitions, Dark Tower Series

  "The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla". Book by Stephen King, 2003.

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sunset, Sunrise, Way

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

  John Burroughs

  Travel, Men, Moss

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• The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

  Rosita Forbes

  Travel, Distance, Lying

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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