Quotes About Journey

The pleasure of homecoming is more than recompense for the pains of setting out, and therefore it is always worth departing.

she realised suddenly that there was something about music that had never been revealed to her before: it was not merely the production of sweet sound; it was, to those who understood it, an emotional and intellectual odyssey.

A time comes when you are all alone...when you've come to the end of everything that can happen to you. It's the end of the world, even grief, your own grief, doesn't answer you anymore, and you have to retrace your steps, to go back among people, it makes no difference who.

Viaggiare è utile, fa lavorare l'immaginazione. Tutto il resto non è che delusioni e fatiche. Il nostro viaggio è interamente immaginario. Ecco la sua forza. Va dalla vita alla morte.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

A journey is time suspended.

Yol Bolsun (May there be a road) [Louis L'Amour}

Some folks want the lights of cities, the admiration of women, and the fame that comes with success. Me, I just want the trail unwinding ahead of me, the view from the top of the ridge, and the smell of a wood-smoke fire.

It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become? Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.

That was always the trouble…everything a man wanted to do lay ahead of him.

And the two men walked down the street side by side, Ab Kale and his son.…

when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

Home is where we're going now

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : Now I can't claim to be what you'd call a religious man, yet I've a respect for religion, and when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

Raindrops felt his cheeks with blind, questing fingers...the black trunks of the trees were like iron bars against the gray of gathering pools. Radigan

Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going someplace you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day's horizon.

He was ready to die here—today.  There was nowhere left to go. He knew he had reached the end of his trail and he was content. As

Louis L'Amour

feet on the deck over their heads and then the sound, far off but

in his younger years he had ridden the outlaw trail until time brought wisdom.

go. It was close enough, yet out of sight of the station.

Louis L'Amour