Wanderers Quotes - Page 5

• All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Men, Quality

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Mother, Art

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• The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Museums, Self, Intellectual

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• Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies
  From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Ears, Taste

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.466, Delphi Classics

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• I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.

  Chet Raymo

  Stars, Home, Night

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• Oh! welcome to the wearied Earth
  The Sabbath resting comes,
  Gathering the sons of toil and care
  Back to their peaceful homes;
  And, like a portal to the skies,
  Opens the House of God,
  Where all who seek may come and learn
  The way the Saviour trod.
  But holier to the wanderer seems
  The Sabbath on the deep,
  When on, and on, in ceaseless course,
  The toiling bark must keep,
  And not a trace of man appears
  Amid the wilderness
  Of waters--then it comes like dove
  Direct from heaven to bless.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Home, Son, Men

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• If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank circle of the void, the cycle comes back to a river flowing by the roots of a tree (both strong symbols of nature, the life-force, the unconscious) and to the wanderer returning to the market place, which is the realm of human society and activity.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Strong, Circles, Roots

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• An exile, ill in heart and frame,--
  A wanderer, weary of the way;--
  A stranger, without love's sweet claim
  On any heart, go where I may!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sweet, Heart, May

  Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.134

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• Ian didn't come. He just sat here with you--he said he didn't care what you looked like. He wouldn't let anyone else put a finger on your tank at all, not even me or Mel. But Doc let me watch this time. It was way cool, Wanda. I don't know why you wouldn't let me watch before. They wouldn't let me help, though. Ian wouldn't let anyone touch you but him.' 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

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• Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

  Rumi

  Wine, Conformity, Existence

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• Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
  "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."

  Gemma Hussey

  Army, Insulting, Church

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• I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Joy, Pleasure, Wander

  Guillaume Apollinaire, Anne Hyde Greet (1980). “Calligrammes”, p.71, Univ of California Press

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• The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.

  Pope Innocent III

  Christian, Jesus, Guilt

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• Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Reflection, Men, Meditation

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mother, Teacher, Rivers

  "Bhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Since thy return, through days and weeks
  Of hope that grew by stealth,
  How many wan and faded cheeks
  Have kindled into health!
  The Old, by thee revived, have said,
  'Another year is ours;'
  And wayworn Wanderers, poorly fed,
  Have smiled upon thy flowers.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Years, May

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.351

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