Quotes About Journey

And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

The hospital at Ellis was the stationary middle place where what you were and what you would be were decided.

School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.

I want to be walking down this street with Mama, headed where we're headed. But her hand in mine makes me feel like I'm not alone in this world where you can't always see what's in front of you.

found out how fast things can change. You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

When people are thrown into the abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people.

grief is such a strange guest, making its home in a person like it's a new thing that no one has ever experienced before. It is different for every person.

But with Mama and Uncle Fred and Charlie, the world doesn't stop. It just keeps spinning, with all its troubles, yanking us into its wild revolutions. There is no stepping into mourning, all secluded with nothing but much-warranted sorrow for company. Instead it's as if the train we're all on switched tracks at full speed and now we are racing forward in a completely new direction with no time to think about the destination we'd been headed toward before and now will never see.

It's as if there's a bridge they need to cross. And it's like crossing over the ocean, Brette.

Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Life is a journey, not a destination.

Henrietta might have said.

The gaping unknown

This ghost was the ship.

You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

Her life had not been long enough for her to know the whole of herself, it had not been long enough or wide.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

I keep driving, slowly, hoping I'll remember where I'm going before I get there. So far I always have. Zen

Time is the narrow footpath in eternity which we walk in our magical, momentary bodies.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

When I miss my mother these days, now that she is gone, I like to picture us in the car together, going for one more magnificent trip to Bertram Woods.

they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it. You didn't read it in order to have an object that had to be housed and looked after forever, a memento of the purpose for which it was obtained. The reading of the book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs.

Connor said when they entered the building immediately after the fire, they felt like they'd died and gone to see if Dante knew what he was writing about.

a library is as much a portal as it is a place—it is a transit point, a passage.