Voyages Quotes

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

Life's uncertain voyage.

Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

A talk is a voyage.
It must be charted.
The speaker who starts nowhere,
usually gets there.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

To read is to voyage through time.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.