Quotes about Journey
They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.
— Olga Tokarczuk
The flight attendants, beautiful as angels, check to make sure we're fit to travel, and then, with a benevolent motion of the hand, permit us to plunge on into the soft, carpet-lined curves of the tunnel that will lead us aboard our plane and onto a chilly aerial road to new worlds. That smile of theirs hold - or so it strikes us - a kind of promise that perhaps we will be born anew now, this time in the right time and the right place.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am. At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between?
— Olga Tokarczuk
Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Am I like that lost day when you fly east, and that regained night that comes from going west?
— Olga Tokarczuk
The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes.
— Olga Tokarczuk
There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.
— Olga Tokarczuk
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.