Quotes About Journey

I realised,' she said, 'that she was happy for the first time in her life, and I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did.

The day lies ahead empty of landmarks, like a prairie, like an untraversable plain.

The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'.

realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did.

I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did.

It [beauty] had always felt like something I might find, or something I had temporarily lost, or something I was pursuing.

She was, I saw, goading herself on: she wanted to Traverse boundaries, as though to prove to herself that she was free.

El éxito te aleja de las cosas que conoces, por lo visto, mientras que el fracaso te condena a ellas.

Parece que o sucesso leva você para longe daquilo que conhece, disse ele, enquanto o fracasso o condena a isso.

you survived your own death and there was nothing left to do but to talk about it, to strangers on a plane or whoever would listen

I hadn't realised, I said, how much of navigation is the belief in progress, and the assumption of fixity in what you have left behind.

We are all, in our journey through life, navigating toward some special, dreamed-of place, and if for some reason we are thrown off course, or the place itself, once reached, is not what we hoped for, then we must strike out at whatever risk to set things right.

I would like', she resumed, 'to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown, where I have no identity and no associations.

he asks herself whether they are running towards something or away from it. If she looks long enough she sees that they are simply running around in circles.

It's easy to roam if you have an anchor. - Clive Hollowel

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

I heard you, sought you, and have found you. I have reached for you, across space and sense and the laws of nature. I do not know how.

You will wander the dark places under the earth, but you will come back with the sun.

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.