Quotes About Journey

What is the 'direction' of the Earth in its journey; where are the atoms 'going' when they spin?

although the phrase "come back" is misleading because in the realm of meditative daydream the only way to "go there" is, paradoxically, to totally "be here.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

I want a good story, with a beginning, middle and end.

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. -

Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --

Lost objects from another life are restored to you in the belly of a carp.

Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.

That's it then, is it? What was it all about? When did it begin?

E quando l'emigrazione finisce, quando torni alla casa da cui te n'eri andata, pensi di aver chiuso il cerchio, ma visitando il museo ti rendi conto che il tuo è stato un viaggio di andata, di sola andata. Dall'esilio nessuno ritorna. Quello che hai abbandonato ti abbandona».

Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually financed the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion. (pg. 243)

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

this is the it you've been looking for

Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another

But I been headin' in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west. I been to territory ain't got no name. Never stayin' nowhere long. But when I got here, and sat out there on the porch waitin' for you, I knew it wasn't the place I was headin' toward, it was you.

He relished never knowing what lay in his path, who might approach with what intention.

Lay my head on the railroad line, Train come along, pacify my mind.

I can say that my narrative project is as difficult today as it was then.

From deep inside, her laughter came like the sound of many rivers, freely, deeply, muddily, heading for the room of an open sea.

In A Mercy I labored to identify the journey from sympathetic race relations to violent ones fostered by religion.

If you know how to tread, bottomlessness need not concern you.