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Quotes About Journey

I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A real hansom-cab took him from the station to Trinity College: the vehicle, it seemed, had been waiting there especially for him, desperately holding out against extinction till that moment, and then gladly dying out to join side whiskers and the Large Copper.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but such suffusions of swimming colors are not to be disdained by the artist in recollection.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Egy elegáns elsÅ' osztályú fülkében, egyik keszty?s kezünket bedugva a bársony ajtóhurokba, könny? nagyon világlátott embernek érezni magunkat, miközben nézzük a szorgosan elsuhanó tájat.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only been defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night - every night, every night - the moment I feigned sleep.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
this may be neither here nor there but I have to say it. Life is very short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All the trees in the world are journeying somewhere. Perpetual pilgrimage.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night—every night, every night—the moment I feigned sleep.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And for a minute she became thoughtful, ac- complishing during that one minute, as sometimes hap- pens, a long leisurely journey: she set off into Luzhin's past, dragging Valentinov with her, visualizing him, from his voice, in horn rimmed spectacles and long-legged, and as she journeyed through the mi^t she looked for a spot where she could dump the slippery, repulsively wriggling Valentinov, but she could not find one because she knew almost nothing about Luzhin's youth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a colleges of dog eared maps, ruined your books, old tires and her sobs in the night- every night, every night- the moment i feigned sleep.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
This then is my story
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the book like a sleigh left my lap...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
There are nights when as soon as I lie down My bed sails off to Russia.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Mi corazón debe seguir andando. Excepto si tú ya fueras mi destino…
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.
~ W. Phillip Keller
After all, when we pause to think about it a moment, we must realize that even our modern mountain highways follow the valleys to reach the summit of the passes they traverse. Similarly the ways of God lead upward through the valleys of our lives.
~ W. Phillip Keller
It's not about the win or the loss; if we're here to experience, then we are free.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
heavy saddlebags and walked to the nearest
~ W.C. Jameson
The voyage was uneventful.
~ W.E. Bowman
I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find.
~ Langston Hughes
Adventure is a great thing," said Simple, "which should be in everybody's life. According to 'The Late Late Show' on TV, in the old days when Americans headed West in covered wagons, they was almost sure to run into adventure--at the very least a battle with the Red Skins. Nowadays, if you want to run into adventure, go to Alabama or Mississippi, where you can battle with the White Skins.
~ Langston Hughes