Wandering Aimlessly Quotes:

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.

- Paul Auster

topic: Eye, Thinking, Wandering Aimlessly

Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament.

- Stephen R. Donaldson

source: Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “Lord Foul's Bane”, p.97, Del Rey

topic: Grief, Rain, Night, Stunned, Overcast

To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.

- Julian Huxley

topic: Wall, Keys, House, Peeping, Wandering Aimlessly

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

- Nicole Krauss

source: Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Past, Rainy Day, Rushing, Wandering Aimlessly, History Of Love

Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.

- Gamal Abdel Nasser

topic: Hero, Moving, Play, Wandering Aimlessly, Beckoning