Quotes About Journey

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

My plan was to drive to Peptoe, Arizona, and track down the three men who found me in a bassinet

No one'll break your heart faster or into more pieces than a Sherpa will.

in the middle of that highway nineteen years earlier.

truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions.

He looks back along the trail, in the direction from which he and the other foxes came.

Our illusion is that we travel through life on a calculated and straight trajectory, from the past through present into future, on a journey to understanding, truth, reward. But by Brownian movement we progress, sent angling off this way and that by the impact of everyone we meet and every event that we cannot foresee.

On the road again, past the jerkwater called Warm Springs, heading toward Tonopah on federal highway 6

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

heads east, from which every tomorrow always comes.

Which would not surprise me. But a role in what?

We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a destination we can't know. We have a weight to carry and can put it down nowhere. We are the weight we carry from there to here to there. —The Book of Counted Sorrows

where the moon and stars do not exist, where the sun will never rise, where the path is ever downward, yet he descends in a desperate search, for

A lot of the time, I don't much care where I go, just so I go somewhere.

MY LIFE BEFORE JACOB'S LADDER, ISLAND LIFE, LITERATURE, and PARANORMAL

Shacket has been in a foul mood since leaving Cedar City. Mile by mile, the arid Mojave leaches out of him what little human kindness has not been drained away by the endless injustices he has suffered.

Libby, we've got to get out of here, off the island.

Yeah, life is complicated, but if it wasn't complicated, it would be a roller coaster on a flat track. Wouldn't be a ride worth taking. And, yeah, we never fully know ourselves, but that means we're mysterious enough to interest one another. And if we fully knew ourselves in this world, what reason would we have to still be here?

encounter on Aguereberry Point, Oxenwald is on the move again after less than an hour.

People are books of a kind, each one a story. Sometimes, with no more than a glance or a gesture or a poignant word, they turn a page for you and reveal a deeper truth about themselves than you've seen before.

They followed the light and the shadow, and the light led them forward to light and the shadow led them to darkness. —T. S. ELIOT, Choruses from The Rock, VII

Anywhere includes everywhere. If it does not matter where we go, then surely there can be no point in going.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.