Quotes About Journey

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

The shock of the real. For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.

One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.

You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe.

Life is a bitch, his dark companion said–and then you die. Not so cried Henry! Life is a glorious shining and splendid adventure, and then you die.

Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South

One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever-and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.

Something about a river trip always seems to promote the consumption of potable drugs.

Any meal is a good meal when you're on a good river.

There comes a time in a man's life when he has to pull up stakes. Has to light out. Has to stop straddling, and start cutting, fence.

For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.

The canyon world becomes each hour more beautiful, the closer we come to its end.

You just got here, sir." "I know but how do we get out?" "Same way you came in. It's a dead-end road." "So we see the same scenery twice?" "It looks better going out.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

A trusty companion halves the journey and doubles the courage.