Quotes About Journey

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.