Quotes About Journey

C'est une étrange prétention des hommes de vouloir que l'amour conduise quelque part

At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.

Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel

partir,c'est mourir un peu...

Le propre de l'amour, c'est d'errer.

A forza d'uscire per recarsi a sognare, viene il giorno in cui si esce per andarsi ad annegare.

No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.

Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn by an irresistible fascination, steps that started off dark, then gradually became dimly illuminated, only to end in the luminous and splendid blaze of enthusiasm.

à des résultats magnifiques par des voies étroites

Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy.

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.

That great little soul had taken flight.

Man is the second.

Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.

When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.

Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer to that, sees the darkness as a whole. He is alone. His name is God.

Esiste un modo di evitare che somiglia al cercare

Il y a une manière d'éviter qui ressemble à chercher.

To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

Voir mille objets pour la première et pour la dernière fois, quoi de plus mélancolique et de plus profond ! Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.

As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown.

The two friends set out towards Eve's Apple. It is unnecessary to mention that they had first gathered up the money, and that the archdeacon followed them.

The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end." Volume V, Book I, Chapter XX This