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Quotes About Destination

I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else.
~ Patti Smith
I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.
~ Paul Auster
as long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live.
~ Paul Auster
La primera vez que entendía que la memoria es un lugar, un sitio de verdad al que se podía ir
~ Paul Auster
NEXT EXIT, and know I was home. Shit, I missed that sign. And what are cities really, besides signs and arbitrary boundaries?
~ Paul Beatty
Wherever your story takes you, you'll never arrive there first, because your Lord is already there in sovereign presence and power, and he rules that place in infinite wisdom and holiness.
~ Paul David Tripp
All roads lead to Mecca Bingo.
~ Unknown
They parted ways when they reached the stage road.
~ Unknown
Matamoros, Mexico? Tegucigalpa, Honduras?
~ Paul Levine
Where are we going?" Tony said. "Somewhere wonderful," Unlikely Worlds said.
~ Unknown
If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?
~ Unknown
You know the nearer your destination, the more you're slip slidin' away.
~ Paul Simon
Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where
~ Paul Simon
would be two days traveling, at least, and then he'd be
~ Paula McLain
If you don't know where you're going, you're never going to get there.
~ Paula Wall
Life is a journey not a destination, so journey it!
~ Unknown
As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.
~ Penn Jillette
Whatever may be his [man's] true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution (change and extinction). This is the character of all life and being - each is at once the centre and the circumference; the point to which all things are contained. - "On Life
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.
~ Unknown
Hey, Jack, which way to Mecca?
~ Peter Arno
But when had they picked up the three coin sacks? Had they carried them all the way from Camp Collins, which was the southern end of the line, or had they picked them up at the train depot in Cheyenne, before rolling on to the hotel to pick up Prophet and the other
~ Unknown
She reached across, grabbed my hand. I'm not going anywhere, Hig, she said. Where would I go? Lots of places, I thought but I didn't say anything. To the other side for one. Or way way inside. A lot of places someone else can never follow.
~ Peter Heller
Then the servant took ten of his masterís camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahorís hometown in Aram-naharaim.
~ Genesis 24:10
Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
~ Genesis 29:1