Quotes About Journey

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she'd be twenty-five years old.

Sometimes she wondered if there could be a limit to these twilight voyages, if some day she would stray too far and there would be no bridge nor bell to bring her home.

You want to know the problem with going somewhere no one's ever been? It takes so damned long to get there.

Still, I knew from that first moment that my tour on the Enterprise was going to be something special." He shrugged. "The name carries that level of expectation, you know?

Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I'd rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, because they'll never come again.

No matter how fast our ships can go, space is still very big.

Like an eye, the moon follows us wherever we go.

Bon Iver, "Holocene

life is simply a vacation from the infinite

I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

I have found my church, and it is at the end of a long trail on a distant mountainship. It is there that I feel most at peace, entirely content and whole.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

Fate isn't one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us. If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

It's only life. We all get through it.

we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

and where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience.

Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.