Quotes About Journey

Love is a word for unfinished business, I think.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

I've a reason to believe We all will be received In Graceland

Cavett: What makes you stuck? Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.

The desert looked if anything even more spectacular than it had on the first leg of their journey, the softening light teasing out its full panoply of colours – yellows and oranges and a dozen different shades of red – the lengthening shadows throwing the landscape into ever sharper and more dramatic relief

Ammonians started from Thebes with guides,

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

29But I said to you, "Have no dread or fear of them. 30The LORD, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt, 31as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.