Quotes About Journey

But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife.

It is not only the body that travels, Adam One used to say, it is also the Soul. And the end of one journey is the beginning of another.

Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.

I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.

This is perhaps why Dante chooses the poet Virgil to be his guide in the Inferno; in visiting a strange location, it's always best to go with someone who's been there before, and – most important of all on a sightseeing tour of Hell – who might also know how to get you out again.

In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it's a sea on which you float.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends. Let

there goes this day, down to where all the other days have gone, each one carrying something away with it.

When did the body first set out on its own adventures, after having ditched its old travelling companions, the mind and the soul?

How did she end up in this madhouse? By putting one foot in front of the other and never taking her eyes off her feet. You could end up anywhere that way.

I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

road jogged west. Another mile, and he pulled up in the

Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

The journey to joy begins with acceptance.

Adventures always have to be at least a little uncomfortable or who would know you'd had one? 

They left soon thereafter, Joliffe leading Tisbe, Basset walking with Ellis in excited talk on the cart's far side, Rose following behind, hand-in-hand with Piers, out of the Penteney gateway, headed for the eastward road, for Aylesbury and places beyond, the world looking a far brighter place than it had looked for a while and a long while past.

The moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare.

Es verdad que, a veces, Dios nos hace promesas que nos ayudan a pasar los tiempos difíciles. Pero parece que no revela Su voluntad a los curiosos, sólo a aquellos que ya sabe que obedecerán. Y a los que obedecen no es necesario revelarles nada. Os puedo prometer una cosa: este viaje es una gran aventura. La vida con Dios nunca es aburrida.

On a voyage of exploration, how can you price what you'll find before you even set sail?

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.