Quotes About Journey

through life without

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

We are who are, Memory Thibodeaux," he said. "Because of who we've been.

Non c'è niente di più solitario dell'avventura.

I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to wear the backpack, but it turned out the person wore the backpack with the dog in it.

Siobhan's smiled broadened, "Aye, it matters naught where one is born, as long as one discovers where one is truly meant to be." -- The Countess by Claire Delacroix

Travel empties out everything you've into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are

There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood's just one of them.

Those who marry to escape something usually find something else.

It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.

Maybe the way back will somehow make sense of the coming.

the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.

But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in your memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

Clara Claiborne Park

He was intrigued now, as when he had first met her, by her apparent lack of interest in him. 'Gertie, Gertie,' he said in humblest tones. 'I treated you badly.' She peered at him rather rudely, as if trying to recollect what he was talking about. 'You were a stage on a journey,' she commented at last. 'Journeys are seldom comfortable.

They walked together, side

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Queria saber: Depois que se é feliz, o que acontece? O que vem depois?

I work only with lost and founds.

Whoever wishes may accompany me: the road is long, it's painful but it's lived.