Quotes About Journey

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

Some of its magic, Some of its tragic…But I had a good life all the way

Life is so much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way.

A gente quer passar um rio a nado, e passa; mas vai dar na outra banda é num ponto muito mais embaixo, bem diverso do em que primeiro se pensou. Viver nem não é muito perigoso?

I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

During those years I was traveling on what I knew to be a very shaky passport, forged papers: I knew that I was no legitimate resident in any world of ideas. I knew I couldn't think. All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was. Which was a writer.

I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be.

I've never been any place I wanted to go.

Did not the Donner-Reed Party, after all, eat its own dead to reach Sacramento?

What I have made for myself is personal, but is not exactly peace.

Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

We all have our own trips and it is a nice drive.

We went to get away from ourselves, and the way to do that is to drive, down through Nogales some day when the pretty green places pall and all that will move the imagination is some place difficult, some desert.

All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.

the sails would fill, and the ship might

There was nothing to do but venture forth, in search of the person I might become. At

Not having God with you is like trying to walk normally on one leg; it twists you, it must.

I carried recipes in my head like maps.