Quotes About Journey

La vida ambulante es la que mejor me conviene. Ir de camino con buen tiempo, por un país hermoso, sin llevar prisa, y tener un objeto agradable por término del viaje, he ahí, de todos los modos de vivir, el que más me agrada.

on peut acquérir la liberté; mais on ne la recouvre jamais

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I felt best when I was on the move, going someplace rather than being there.

everyone who is interesting has a past

We each needed to respect the religious practices of others, seeing as it was up to every human being to find his or her own way to heaven

I found the gas, he said. Now all's I need to do is find the brake.

We stopped under a railroad bridge and got out of the car to admire the river that ran through the town.

switchbacks, passing walls of limestone and sandstone layered like giant stacks of old papers.

After all those years of roaming, they'd found home.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment...

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, now what?

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

J'ai envie de partir, de m'en aller quelque part où je serais vraiment à ma place, où je m'emboîterais... Mais ma place n'est nulle part; je suis de trop.

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.

What sort of adventures?' I asked him, astonished. 'All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believe the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary.

Every sound comes into my ears dirty because you've heard it on the way

Pour que l'événement le plus banal devienne une aventure, il faut et il suffit qu'on se mette à le raconter.

But an adventure never returns nor is prolonged.

Me levanté, salí. Al llegar a la verja, me volví. Entonces el jardín me sonrió. Me apoyé en la verja y miré largo rato. La sonrisa de los árboles, de macizo de laurel quería decir algo; aquél era el verdadero secreto de la existencia.

If I were ever to go on a trip, I think I should make written notes of the slightest traits of my character before leaving, so that when I returned I would be able to compare what I was and what I had become.

What sort of adventures?" I ask him, astonished. "All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believed the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.