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Quotes About Journey

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
~ Thomas Fuller
Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
~ Victor Hugo
A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
~ Jean Shepherd
Also known as 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,' or in the original Welsh, 'Cwm Rhondda,'" added Sonar Taxlaw.
~ Neal Stephenson
As Hiro crests the pass on his motorcycle at five in the morning, the town of Port Sherman, Oregon, is suddenly laid out before him: a flash of yellow loglo wrapped into a vast U-shaped valley that was ground out of the rock, a long time ago, by a big tongue of ice in an epochal period of geological cunnilingus.
~ Neal Stephenson
We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be. But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings.
~ Neal Stephenson
The next morning the Fellowship, now filled out to a Tolkien-compliant head count of nine, simply walked
~ Neal Stephenson
The last ship home has sailed. From now on, launch vehicles will rise up into orbit, but they will not go back for ten thousand years.
~ Neal Stephenson
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places," Raven says.
~ Neal Stephenson
It was not the sharp bracing fear one felt on an adventure
~ Neal Stephenson
Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places?
~ Neal Stephenson
Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.
~ Neal Stephenson
Gomer Bolstrood
~ Neal Stephenson
Birth and death, Chet said. The poles of human existence. We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be. But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings.
~ Neal Stephenson
Find it on the map, you can always get to it. Try to follow someone's half-assed directions, and once you lose the trail, you're sunk.
~ Neal Stephenson
Vyacheslav exited through New Caird's airlock, clambered down a stack of robots to the surface, and then made his way toward the site.
~ Neal Stephenson
can't say I mourned my failure overmuch, as it meant I'd get a free trip to New Orleans out of it, and that would rock be most excellent. I DROVE BACK to the office late in the day to find Tristan collapsed on the couch from exhaustion.
~ Neal Stephenson
changing her course several times. And when she spotted the flag raised over Master Chucai's tent, she quickly
~ Neal Stephenson
THREE DAYS NORTH of the Danube, the road focused to a rut in a crowd of scrawny trees that were striving to rise clear from a haze of grasping weeds.
~ Neal Stephenson
Then he walked home and died.
~ Neal Stephenson
Life's rich pageant. And all that," Randy says.
~ Neal Stephenson
Half an hour later I pronounced us lost. Jesry accepted it with pleasure, as if this were more satisfactory than being found.
~ Neal Stephenson
His own professional journey, since then, could be seen as the single-minded pursuit of weird stuff, and the shedding, at every opportunity, of all responsibilities that didn't qualify as such.
~ Neal Stephenson
the scheduled launch, he had flown to Baikonur, bringing
~ Neal Stephenson