Quotes About Journey

Bill's tongue had started at Cirocco's toes and was now exploring her left ear. She liked that. It had been a memorable journey.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Take 'er easy there, pilgrim

Think Ya Can Make It Pilgrim?

Think you can make it, pilgrim?

Well Good Luck Pilgrim

I saw him now going the way of all flesh.

Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though't goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes its own way.

I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me?

although he knew he would never feel completely at home there, it would always give him a place to come home to.

En su año cuarenta y tres de vida, William Stoner aprendió lo que otros, mucho más jóvenes, habían aprendido antes que él: que la persona que uno ama al principio no es la persona que uno ama al final, y que el amor no es un fin sino un proceso a través del cual una persona intenta conocer a otra.

A quarantatré anni compiuti, William Stoner apprese ciò che altri, ben più giovani di lui, avevano imparato prima: che la persona che amiamo da subito non è quella che amiamo per davvero e che l'amore non è una fine ma un processo attraverso il quale una persona tenta di conoscerne un'altra.

Supongo que hago esto porque no importa si lo hago o no. Y puede ser divertido pasear por el mundo una vez más antes de regresar a los claustros y a la lenta extinción que nos aguarda a todos».

Years afterward, at odd moments, he would look back upon those days that followed his conversation with Gordon Finch and would be unable to recall them with any clarity at all. It was as if he were a dead man animated by nothing more than a habit of stubborn will. Yet he was oddly aware of himself and of the places, persons, and events which moved past him in these few days;

the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

U ?etrdeset tre?oj godini života William Stoner nau?io je ono što su drugi, mnogo mla?i, nau?ili prije njega: da osoba koju zavoliš u prvom trenutku nije osoba koju voliš na kraju i da ljubav nije svršetak puta, nego proces u kojem jedna osoba nastoji upoznati drugu.

They walked with some purpose, yet without particular hurry

And it might be amusing to pass through the world once more before I return to the cloistered and slow extinction that awaits us all.

He suspected that he was beginning, ten years late, to discover who he was; and the figure he saw was both more and less than he had once imagined it to be.

In seinem dreiundvierzigsten Jahr erfuhr William Stoner, was andere, oft weit jüngere Menschen vor ihm erfahren hatten: dass nämlich jene Person, die man zu Beginn liebt, nicht jene Person ist, die man am Ende liebt, und dass Liebe kein Ziel, sondern der Beginn eines Prozesses ist, durch den ein Mensch versucht, einen anderen kennenzulernen.

Do they know that before us lies a road at the end of which is either death or greatness? The two words go around in my head, around and around, until it seems they are the same.

The way to knowledge is a long journey, and the goal is distant; and one must visit many places along the way, if he is to know that goal when he arrives at it.

A 43 anni compiuti, William Stoner apprese quello che altri,..., avevano imparato prima: che la persona che amiamo da subito non è quella che amiamo per davvero e che l'amore non è una fine ma un processo attraverso il quale una persona tenta di conoscerne un'altra

It's a tricky balancing act, finding that point between safety and danger where you can feel both secure and adventurous. I used to read books about fishing by people who had given up jobs and careers to show up every day at a trout stream. What made them do it? They realized, after years of fortifying the walls, of making life safe and secure, that they also needed what was on the other side.