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.

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

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

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

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

Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage.

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.

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.

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.

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

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

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.

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

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.

...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.

From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

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.

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’ To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’ Perhaps not quite directly.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

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