Quotes About Journey

There are things one reads that make you aware that you have lived nothing, felt nothing, experienced nothing up to that time.

En voyage, j'absorbe tout et l'ajoute à moi-même.

Perfection is static, and I am in full progress. The faithful wife is only one phase, one moment, one metamorphosis, one condition.

I will never settle down, never have a home. My symbol is a roving ship. I am a writer. I would rather have been a courtesan. the rest is in the diary

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Stories do not end.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

The end of every road is only the beginning of a new one, even longer and more difficult

Mountains are not stadiums where I statisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.... I go to them as humans go to worship. From their lofty summits I view my past, dream of the future and, with an unusual acuity, am allowed to experience the present moment.... my vision cleared, my strength renewed. In the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn

Think of it as a blind date. All you initially have in common at the bottom is the reason you're there, the top of the mountain.

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

All trips end eventually. Is that any reason to renounce undertaking one and enjoying it? You only live once. Is that any reason to spoil the single life you do have?

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.

We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.

La tristesse est une complication. Jamais je ne cherchais à analyser mon bonheur. ... Et je me demande à present si c'est bien le bonheur que je souhaite ou plutôt l'acheminement vers le bonheur.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.

Aren't you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

The self requires a story.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore

Tik per savo meil? jai suvokiau es?s ir prad?jau iš tikr?j? gyventi.