Quotes About Exploration

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits best?

Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits me and is most becoming?

I do not fear it: I have been there.

Dream by dream I am educating myself to become that rare character, rarer, in truth, than any member of the Psychoanalytic Institute, a dream connoisseur. Not a dream stopper, a dream explainer, an exploiter of dreams for the crass practical ends of health and happiness, but an unsordid collector of dreams for themselves

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last.

That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Cîte zile-oi mai avea, o s? zbor încoace È™i încolo între lucruri care se exclud reciproc.

The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoot off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in al directions myself.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

Miért ne próbálhatnám föl a különféle életeket éppúgy, mint a ruhákat, hogy lássam, melyik illik rám és hozzám a legjobban?

Every so often a beam of light appeared out of thin air, traversed the wall like a ghostly, exploratory finger, and slid off into nothing again.

Ho talmente riempito la mia riserva di giorni e maschere che adesso posso e devo passare gli anni a pescare, a tirar su mostri dagli occhi di perla, coriacei, squamosi e con barbe marine, sommersi da lungo tempo nel mar dei Sargassi della mia immaginazione.

We are not what we might be; what we are Outlaws all extrapolation Beyond the interval of now and here: White whales are gone with the white ocean.

you don't want to live just one life, which could be typed, which could be tossed off in a thumbnail sketch = "She was the sort of girl …." And end in 25 words or less. You want to live as many lives as you can …

I would spend my whole time writing on some obscure theme in the works of James Joyce.

So come, and slowly we will walk through green gardens and marvel at this strange and sweet world.

Czytanie ksi??ek to najpi?kniejsza zabawa, jak? sobie ludzko?? wymy?li?a.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land.

Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling

Samo oni koji rizikuju da odu predaleko mogu da otkriju dokle ?ovek zaista može da stigne.

Old men ought to be explorers

You have to risk going too far to discover how far you can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far can one go.