Quotes about Journey

No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. During this journey in 1825

Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.

When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.

Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer to that, sees the darkness as a whole. He is alone. His name is God.

To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end." Volume V, Book I, Chapter XX This

Death is the entrance into the great light.

Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.