Quotes about Journey
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.
— Victor Hugo
To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;
— Victor Hugo
As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.
— Victor Hugo
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
— Victor Hugo
Death is the entrance into the great light.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Milan Kundera
Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life as a road, but as a highway
— Milan Kundera
The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body.
— Milan Kundera
Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.
— Paulo Coelho
The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.
— DH Lawrence
We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.
— Ayn Rand
It Doesn't Matter Where You Came From. All That Matters Is Where You Are Going
— Brian Tracy