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Quotes About Journey

For the countries of the spirit, to which he was now admitted, were accessible only via many dim and tangled trails.
~ Louise Erdrich
Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haien Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai
~ Louise Erdrich
I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
C'est peut-être ça qu'on cherche à travers les vie, rien que cela, le plus grand chagrin possible pour devenir soi-même avant de mourir.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so and he's never wrong. And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes. It's on the other side of life.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That street was like a dismal gash, endless, with us at the bottom of it, filling it from side to side, advancing from sorrow to sorrow, toward an end that is never in sight, the end of all the streets in the world.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds là, autant qu'ils sont et qui doit être au bout de la nuit, et c'est pour ça qu'ils n'y vont pas, au bout de la nuit.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Viaggiare, è proprio utile, fa lavorare l'immaginazione. Tutto il resto è delusione e fatica. Il viaggio che ci è dato è interamente immaginario. Ecco la sua forza. Va dalla vita alla morte. Uomini, bestie, città e cose, è tutto inventato. E' un romanzo, nient'altro che una storia fittizia. Lo dice Littrè, lui non sbaglia mai. E poi in ogni caso, tutti possono fare altrettanto. Basta chiudere gli occhi. E' dall'altra parte della vita.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
C'est peut-être ça qu'on cherche à travers la vie, rien que cela, le plus grand chagrin possible pour devenir soi-même avant de mourir.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Pe m?sur? ce r?mâi într-un loc, lucrurile ÅŸi oamenii se degradeaz?, se stric? ÅŸi încep s? put? anume pentru tine.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I'm doddering around like an old bumblebee, I'm all tangled up in the air, Ah sees it, I ain't tellin' things in the right order, what about it! You'll excuse me somewhat, kidding about my memories, digressing from rhyme to reason, jabbering away about my friends instead of showing you around!...Let's go! and let's keep going!...Let me show you around nicely...straying neither right nor left!...
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
God steers, but you row.
~ Luanne Rice
Sometimes a person has to visit where he came from to find out where he's going," he said. "Life never stays the same—as much as we love today, tomorrow's coming fast.
~ Luanne Rice
Stevie thought about how people have to find their own ways to the light. People take as long as they take, and there wasn't any use trying to rush them.
~ Luanne Rice
the boat in
~ Luanne Rice
None of us ever think our lives would be our lives," Scotty said.
~ Luanne Rice
Whereas while you're travelling, nobody really knows. While you're travelling you still have the potential to do anything, be anything. It's only when you stop and actually try to do those things that you discover your own capabilities, I guess.
~ Lucy Diamond