Quotes About Journey

Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it's like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn't let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you've just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness

You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

Listen kiddo, by the time you grow up you'll have collected a whole lot of this 'dirt of life' stuff, right, you won't know where it's coming from but it'll pile up, and clothes and pearls won't look as beautiful to you as they do now -- that's for sure. The problem is that dirt, see? You can't ever settle down in one place, you've got to live like you're always, always staring way off into the distance.

Quanti anni avevo quand'ho capito che su quel sentiero buio e solitario l'unica luce possibile era quella che io stessa avrei emanato?

If you--or anyone on this train, for that matter--thought of life as a kind of train, instead of worrying only about your usual destinations, you'd be surprised how far you could go, just with the money you have in your wallet right now.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. That is what makes the life I have now possible. Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.

these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on a life when life has no shape

In retrospect I realise that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung.

In retrospect I realize that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, I could not afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one scene would have meant never making it to the top, although it would have been by far the easier choice. What motivated me was probably that little light still left in my half-dead heart, glittering in the darkness. Yet without it, perhaps, I might have slept better.

I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I have yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes.

Sul campo di battaglia della memoria giacevano le spoglie di tutto quanto si era piegato a forze invisibili, dei pensieri di ciò che era svanito lasciando soltanto le emozioni dietro di sè. L'avrei attraversato giorno dopo giorno, imprimendo le orme dei miei passi come si offrono fiori.

When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. "But soon, it becomes a clear stream, whose flow conducts itself quietly, through spontaneous movements.

Ognuno di noi pensa di avere molte strade e di potere scegliere da sé. Ma forse sarebbe stato più esatto dire che sogna il momento di scegliere. Anche per me è stato così. Ma ora lo so. Lo so con tanta chiarezza da poterlo mettere in parole. La strada è sempre decisa, non però in senso fatalistico. Sono il nostro continuo respirare, gli sguardi, i giorni che si succedono a deciderla naturalmente.

We'd given up thinking about things as though we understood them, or even as though we could, and committed to living our days like a continuous length of thread we were each spinning.

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own?

Fürchte die Zeit nicht, geh einfach immer weiter. So weit, bis du das Gefühl hast, angekommen zu sein.

I nostri destini si erano separati, e ognuno di noi era diventata grande seguendo la sua strada. Ormai tornare indietro era impossibile. I miei erano semplici rimpianti, che valevano meno di zero, un inutile spreco si per lei che per me, perciò cercai di ricacciarli via.

Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.

Strahlt ein Leuchtturm allzu hell, verwirrt er die vorüberfahrenden Schiffe und zieht die wunderlichsten Schicksale an.(...) Ich glaube es gibt eine bestimmte Art von Anziehungskraft, deren Daseinsenergie unermüdlich nach Veränderung verlangt.

I walked, sloshing down the shiny wet path that glittered with the colors of the rainbow.

if you come to know lots of different people's dreams, like you did, maybe you reach a point from which you can't return, and maybe that weighted down on you so heavily that in the end there was nothing you could do but die.

Il tempo che niente può fermare non scorre solo per piangere sulle cose perdute ma anche per ottenere un'infinità di momenti bellissimi, uno dopo l'altro. Ah, questo è un piccolo premio, pensai.

La magia tiene sempre la porta aperta. Davvero, sempre. Trovarla dipende solo da noi.

Quizá sea imposible desde el principio clasificar una existencia como una u otra. La vida no hace más que fluir imparable, guardándonos toda clase de sabores.