Quotes About Journey

Ich weiß nicht, wie ich ein Gestern ertragen habe, und ein Vorgestern, und die vielen Tage, die sich noch rückwärts reihen.

And again there was the long road, as straight as an arrow through the shimmering wall of fog, and the sudden apparition of the solitary columns of Persepolis on the terrace that seemed surreally suspended high above the plains

Of all the names that linger in my memory after a long journey, this one is the dearest to me (Therapia). Perhaps because it sounds so Greek, blithe as a swelling paean to carefree days spent on lovely shores? Perhaps because it came at the beginning and now belongs to a long ago, glorified time-for the journey had just begun.

Annie Barrows

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

You know that Chinese proverb, "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step"? Turns out, if we were contemplating a thousand-mile walk, we'd be better off imagining ourselves looking back from the destination and figuring how we got there. When it comes to advance thinking, standing at the end and looking backward is much more effective than looking forward from the beginning.

It doesn't so much matter where we end up as how we got there. What has happened in the recent past drives our emotional response much more than how we are doing overall. That's how we can win $100 and be sad, and lose $100 and be happy.

Il silenzio era il sottofondo delle cose e la bicicletta misurava la velocità della vita.

Le mur de Berlin est tombé. L'Histoire devient à nouveau imprévisible. Tout est venu de l'Est et en particulier de l'URSS, ce pays qui est au-dessus de moi depuis plus d'un an, par le fait du hasard (mais parce que j'écris, je devais fatalement rencontrer l'Europe de l'Est, la Bulgarie, mon premier voyage là-bas).

My whole story as a woman: going down a flight of stairs, and hanging back at each step.

Je rebrousse chemin, un détour assez long pour reprendre le chemin correct (mais j'étais capable de me rappeler où commençait l'erreur de route). Le bon chemin est surplombé par la voie ferrée.

Sous mes pas s'ouvre l'énormité du gouffre de l'inconnu : la petite pièce que j'ai dû être dans son existence

Soir, 10 h 30. Le présent, voilà, mou, indistinct : la rencontre est terminée. Il était à Rome, Florence ! Et Avignon au retour. Qu'en conclure ? Pur hasard, ou bien désir de connaître ce que je connais aussi

I have searched for my mothers love in all corners of the world

L'escalier qui monte de la cuisine aux chambres s'est révélé trop étroit pour le passage du cercueil.

She has no defined self, but "selves" who pass from one book to another.

Nothing equaled the bliss at the end of the day, after elbowing one's way with the first passengers into the crowded RER, and inching as close as possible to the center aisle seats, and standing for these stations, of finally sitting down and closing one's eyes, or doing a crossword.

Si je ne les écris pas, les choses ne sont pas allées jusqu'à leur terme, elles ont été seulement vécues.

L'avenir est trop immense pour qu'elle l'imagine, il arrivera, c'est tout

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

Knowing your destination is half the journey.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.