Journeys Quotes

“And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?"

"They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend.”
― Paulo Coelho

“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana. That became my subject, the subject that shaped my work. When I get a French translation of one of my books that says 'translated from the American', I think, 'Yes, that's exactly right.”
― Don DeLillo

“Traveling the roads alone was a temptation for evil”
― Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew

“He wished to kneel beside him and pray. It was not shyness prevented him from doing it on Southampton railway station...It was the fear of being overcome with emotion. This was his flaw, the crack in his clay, and the more dreadful for being so unexpected...”
― Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

“feeling all the moods of the ocean. Crystalline in a still morning, beckoning under the midday Sun, a mysterious and ancient divinity at dusk, wild and unconquerable in storms. Always a new tide coming in, and an old tide leaving on a new journey. I feel like the ocean remembers the touch of every place it has been to and washes our skin with it, takes part of us with it when it goes.”
― Tamara Rendell, Realm of the Stag King

“travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways”
― Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

“In the silence between worlds, echoes the power of the Universe, where destiny whispers and paths converge”
― Hellevi E. Woodman, Voice of The Portals I: The First Gateway

“The starting point of any journey is not a place, but a heart.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Now there was a sense of liberation, a feeling of finality. It's in the spinning of the wheels beneath him, the miles of road he has traveled, and the miles of road he has yet to travel. When had leaving ever seemed so difficult?”
― R.D. Pires, A Vast, Untethered Ocean

“That's what happens on journeys, the things you find are not necessarily what you had gone looking for.”
― Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

“Still alive I am
At the end of a long dream
On my journey,
Fall of an autumn day.”
― Matsuo Bashō, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

“We are all / traveling to, through, or out of something..." -from "The Journey Back”
― Lauren Tivey, Moroccan Holiday

“Publicly telling the truth on social media can be one of the most effective healing journeys.”
― Steven Magee

“Celebrate new beginnings”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“In the context of forever, we have all the time in the world”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“And he said...

...know that you may fill my footsteps, but you will never fill my shoes.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“And he said...

...do not wait to hitchhike on the road when death is out driving.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“And he said...

...rungs on a ladder may take you up and down, but every now & then they will even take sideways.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The longest journey is the one that you don't enjoy at all; the toughest journey is the one where you don't believe you can make it; the most dangerous journey is the one where you assume the road is completely safe!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There are always two journeys within a journey: The first is the journey itself, and the second is the journey of the changes in you while traveling!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Singular acts of compassion can have profound consequences across generations. You never know whom you might inspire or where the inspiration might lead.”
― Heidi Love, Laughing at the Sky—Wild Adventure, Bold Dreams, and a Daring Search for a Stolen Childhood

“We are all walking different journeys on this Earth, yet we are not far apart.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The long white roads are a temptation. What quests they propose! They take us away to the thin air of the future or to the underworld of the past.”
― Eric Ravilious

“I had set out to come to know Thomas by walking where he had walked, but he had mostly eluded me, remaining a Lob-like figure glimpsed now and then at a bend on the path or through a hole in the hedge, still enigmatic. And yet I had learnt so much from the people I'd met along my journeys: people for whom, as for Thomas, landscape was intricately involved with self-perception, and for whom certain places or weathers brought yields of grace.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“Upon setting foot on land, the ferryman warned me I would not have a ride back. The ferryman seemed spooked by the fog. ‘Cursed lands! Cursed lands! Cletus yelled.’ I came to the realization something was wrong with Cletus when I noticed the curvature of the man’s bones. I could not understand what had transpired, for the very air seemed cool. So I shrugged it off and continued my journey past the fog.”
― Marilyn Velez, Tundra: The Darkest Hour

“Happiness is, wandering in journeys, rather than in destinations,
And being awake, when everybody else is sleeping.”
― lauren klarfeld, Last words for the road

“Every journey begins with a step into the unknown. Welcome to my stories — where memories, dreams, and quiet magic intertwine.”
― Rellim Aglo, The Midnight Letters: A city where letters come to life and people become stories.

“The great thing about not preparing for a journey, not reading about every place before you visit, is that things can still take you by surprise.”
― Raynor Winn, The Salt Path

“Life wouldn't come to an end if you were dead, and that is enough reason why you should get fired up now that you are alive.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“There’s nothing that I really want:
The stars tonight are rich and cold
Above my house that vaguely broods
Upon a path soon lost in dark.

My dinner plate is chipped all round
(It tells me that I’ve changed a lot);
My glass is cracked all down one side
(It shows there is a path for me).

My hands—I rest my head on them.
My eyes—I rest my mind on them.
There’s nothing that I really need
Before I set out on that path.”
― Kevin Hart