Quotes About Journey

Here is that road, maybe a thousand miles long, and the woman walking down it isn't at mile one. I don't know how far she has to go, but I know she's not going backward, despite it all - and she's not walking alone.

We should be able to find our way back again by the objects we dropped, like Hansel and Gretel in the forest, the objects reeling us back in time, undoing each loss, a road back from lost eyeglasses to lost toys and baby teeth.

the way wandering on foot can lead to the wandering of imagination

That circle became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one.

It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.

for pilgrims, walking is work.

The pilgrimage is one of the basic modes of walking, walking in search of something intangible

No perderte nunca es no vivir

The body is nothing more than a parcel in transit, a chess piece dropped on another square, it does not move but is moved.

Cómo emprenderás la búsqueda de aquello cuya naturaleza desconoces por completo?».

Every love has its landscape.

the landscape never looks the same coming and going, so turn around periodically and look at the view you'll see coming back.

Utopia is on the horizon," declares Eduardo Galeano. "When I walk two steps, it takes two steps back. I walk ten steps and it is ten steps further away. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking." Judeo-Christian

Like a life, a journey assumes a shape and a meaning that are only clear afterward, and like a journey, a life requires that you learn to let go of the plan when the actuality departs from it, to embrace what's arriving, let go of what's departing, to move forward and not get stuck. You can cover the same ground with entirely different purposes.

The surprises, liberations, and clarifications of travel can sometimes be garnered by going around the block as well as going around the world, and walking travels both near and far.

I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles

Lose the whole world, he asserts, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Perder cosas tiene que ver con la desaparición de lo conocido, perderse tiene que ver con la aparición de lo desconocido.

This is the strange life of books that you enter alone as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes in which we meet.

Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

It's life, Sidda. You just climb on the beast and ride.

Every time I thought that I was put together, I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.

Life is short, but wide.