Quotes about Journey
Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.
- Euripides
For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.
- Eva Marie Everson
It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself--he could not tell the hour when, or the day or the week, the month or the year.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
- Ann Voskamp
I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?
- Jonathan Evison
The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.
- Hilaire Belloc