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Quotes About Journeys

Ideally, it's great to gain inspiration from the script, but when filming starts, characters and their journeys can change.
~ Lorne Balfe
There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.
~ Thornton Wilder
I've been to North Africa many times.
~ Martin Scorsese
roads were made for journeys not destinations
~ Confucius
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys. X
~ Cormac McCarthy
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. He said that in his opinion it was imprudent to suppose that the dead have no power to act in the world, for their power is great and their influence often most weighty with just those who suspect it least.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Journeys are fundamentally the same: they begin in the mind, with the image or the story that inspires them in the first place, and finish in the world.
~ Walter Kirn
We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.
~ Watchman Nee
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.
~ Lawrence Durrell
There are some stories you never get to finish.
~ Lemony Snicket
It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
People ask me how many times I've taken LSD--and I don't count. But it's the same thing when they ask me how many times I've made love. The answer is, not enough.
~ Timothy Leary
Every relationship we have in our lives, whether it lasts five hours with a stranger on a plane or fifty years with our soulmate, is meant to teach us something.
~ Pamela Redmond Satran
Voyagers can remove the masks and those sinuous, intricate disguises we wear at home in the dangerous equilibrium of our common lives.
~ Pat Conroy
Don't fret,' the bow said. 'You have many journeys in your future, some of which you'll wish you didn't have to undertake. And as for coming from somewhere far away, you, too, have done that.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
May the saints of all the stars and constellations bring you hope as they guide you out of the dark and into the light, on this voyage and the next. And all the journeys still to come. For now and evermore. - The Doctor.
~ Chris Chibnall
This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.
~ Henri Matisse
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
~ Henry Rollins
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
~ Henry Rollins
Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs
~ Levi-Strauss, Claude
taking several short trips in a year is likely to give you more peak experiences—and grateful memories—than one long but unremarkable vacation.
~ Janice Kaplan