Quotes About Journey

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

WE ARE BORN IN THE WILDS OF DARKNESS AND DIE ON THE PATHWAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT.

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.

but now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.

In whatever kind of a "race" life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

The road to Damascus was not and is not a one-way street.

You don't become an atheist so much as you find out that's what you are.

Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.

What is one ever doing anywhere?

Biliyor musun, senle ben -garip ÅŸey- ayn? yolun yolcusuyuz asl?nda. Ä°kimizin de evleri biraz büyükçe ama gene de bir bak?ma bize dar geliyor.

From 1929 to 1933, [age 25-29] I lived almost continuously in Berlin, with only occasional visits to other parts of Germany and to England. Already, during that time, I had made up my mind that I would one day write about the people I'd met and the experiences I was having. So I kept a detailed diary, which in due course provided raw material for all my Berlin stories. [from preface]

those roots were made for walking. And that's not all they do.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower...

We really have to get going, Sam said. Can we leave the car here and pick it up later? The monk said, Does a dog have a Buddha nature? Does a fish have a watertight asshole? said Coyote.

If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey?

Pain travels pretty well.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. —Dag Hammarskjöld

like trying to follow a stream of black oil through a maze of shadows.

You do what you think you need to, but pain travels pretty well.

Pues no te la mojes, Pedro. Ven conmigo. Camina sobre las aguas.

You lie, it takes forty years to get to Egypt." "Not anymore, it's closer now.

mitzvahs, niños en JC Penney's o lo que fuera, pero en tierra firme. Al otro lado del canal

Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain

Despite the long journey, it seemed easier to go back the way I had come. At least some level of familiarity would be waiting there. But if I was making easy choices, why was I there in the first place?