Quotes About Journey

He walked as in a twilight of the sense, Which this one day shall turn to tender light.

Hurry Who knows what harm may be done to a man by hurrying a spiritual process in him?

George MacDonald

George MacDonald

The door into life generally opens behind us and the only wisdom for one haunted with the scent of unseen roses is work.-George MacDonald

wordy descriptions of the journey, which you can get from Parkman or Gregg if you want them – or from volume

Here I was alone, and could take my own time. In other parts of the world one always seems to be in a great hurry, tearing from one spot to the other at a gallop, but out yonder, perhaps because distances are so great, time don't seem to matter; you can jog along, breathing fresh air and enjoying the scenery and your own thoughts about women and home and hunting and booze and money and what may lie over the next hill.

And it was a queer thing I'd done coming here.

Spotkamy siÄ™ tam, gdzie nie ma mroku.

And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Ad Astra per Aspera—through rough ways to the stars

The pair adopted the phrase Ad Astra per Aspera—through rough ways to the stars—as their motto.

Between the plan and the fulfillment stands always the frail barrier of a human life.

Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.

From this day forth, I shall use his key. I shall start humbly as he started

Having wasted ten days searching for camels I could not find, I was glad to bargain with him.

On ne le trouve pas quand on le cherche; il vient à nous quand nous ne l'attendons pas.

L'art de voyager, c'est presque la science de la vie.

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to real life -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

We might imagine a story as a room-sized black box. The writer's goal is to have the reader go into that box in one state of mind and come out in another. What happens in there has to be thrilling and non-trivial.

And we rode forward into the night, past the sleeping houses of our countrymen.

In those girls I found my Rome, my Paris, my Constantinople.

Every day starts out as a certain day, dear reader, which, when it begins, we call today. Hence, every day, as we wake to a new today, we must assume that today may be the day. For what, though? That is what is unknown, that is what I must find out, and quickly now: for what will each of my coming todays henceforth be for?