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Quotes About Journey

it would be ready again to lift another companion toward the shining silence which it could never reach.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hilvar knew better than this; he had sensed it instinctively from the first. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. What
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He had made the journey from star to man, across the immense desert of the cosmos to the lonely oasis of the human soul.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
But to me, MAP was a robot Columbus.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
De algum modo, não estava nem um pouco surpreso, nem alarmado. Pelo contrário, tinha uma sensação de expectativa tranquila, como sentirá quando os médicos espaciais lhe haviam aplicado testes com drogas alucinógenas. O mundo ao seu redor era estranho e maravilhoso, mas não havia nada a temer. Ele viajara aqueles milhões de quilômetros em busca de mistério; e agora, ao que parecia, o mistério vinha em sua direção.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Come, Watson, come!' he cried. 'The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!' Ten minutes later we were both in a cab and rattling through the silent streets on our way to Charing Cross Station.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Dark nights are unpleasant, Yes, for strangers to travel, The clouds are heavy. Yes, a storm is approaching.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I spent the night in town, for I came up yesterday
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The life is an adventure. Is exciting and terrifying. From time to time can be a little bored but should never be serious.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
En nuestro pasado reside nuestro futuro. Nuestras decisiones y nuestros actos condicionan ese futuro y nos traen alegría o la desgracia, Hagan lo que hagan, esfuércense por conseguir sus metas. Tal vez nunca logren su objetivo, incluso puede que este sea un espejismo, pero a lo largo del camino encontrarán gente que se convertirá en piezas importantes de sus vidas y crearán recuerdos que les ayudarán a seguir adelante en los tiempos difíciles. (Tory)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What makes you think anyone has a roadmap? You think I know where I'm going? That I ever have? We're all mice stumbling in our mazes, trying to find our cheese. Hoping the levers we're pulling are the right ones and not the ones designed to shock us.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He mounted behind me and we started off, while I indulged myself with the image of grabbing that stick and conking him right across his smiling face.
~ Sherwood Smith
I do not like to remember that trip. Not that I was awake for much of it--for which I am grateful. I kept sliding in and out of consciousness, and believe me, the outs were much more welcome than the ins.
~ Sherwood Smith
And the thread of her happiness was no stronger than the clasp of her fingers on his coat, no longer than this last mile of their journey.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Journeys end in lovers meeting
~ Shirley Jackson
Wear your boots if you wander today
~ Shirley Jackson
I am home, she thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought. I am home, I am home, she thought; now to climb.
~ Shirley Jackson
Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest...
~ Shirley Jackson
she might never leave the road at all, but just hurry on and on until the wheels of the car were worn to nothing and she had come to the end of the world.
~ Shirley Jackson