Wanderers Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Men, Rivers

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

  Sterling Hayden

  Mean, Sea, Play

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Demand, Path

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

  John Henry Jowett

  Tree, Life Is Like, May

  24 Copy quote

• Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is suffering. If you haven't cried, you can't dry another's eyes. Unless you've walked in darkness, you can't help wanderers find the way. Unless you've looked into the eyes of menacing death and felt its hot breath, you can't help another rise from the dead and taste anew the joy of being alive.

  Takashi Nagai

  Eye, Compassion, Giving

  61 Copy quote

• Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. 'I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Hair, Hands

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.494, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Home, Men, Land

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1429, eBookIt.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

  Henry Miller

  Lonely, Artist, Men

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

  Charles Lamb

  Fancy

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.71

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Soul, Might

  9 Copy quote

• A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Purpose, Pilgrim

  7 Copy quote

• Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Home, Soldier, Lit

  4 Copy quote

• Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

  Samuel Richardson

  Women, Eye, Home

  Samuel Richardson (1811). “Works”, p.13

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Cities

  Sinclair Lewis (2008). “Babbitt: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.112, ReadHowYouWant.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  97 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• 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”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Wise, Fate, Past

  7 Copy quote

• Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

  Joy Williams

  Today, Language

  4 Copy quote

• I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.584, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wanderer: You don't really feel that way about me you know. It's this body... she's pretty isn't she? Ian: She is. Melanie is a very pretty girl. Even beautiful. But pretty as she is, she is a stranger to me. She's not the one I... care about. Wanderer: It's this body. Ian: That's not true at all. It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what they say. It's not how you look like in that body, it's what you do with it. You are beautiful.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Girl, Expression

  5 Copy quote