135 Quotes Tagged: journey

Dich hab ich nicht erreicht-
Doch nähert Tag für Tag
Sich dir mein Fuß
Drei Flüsse noch und ein Berg
Ich überqueren muss.
Noch Eine Wüste, noch ein Meer,
Die Reise aber zähl ich nicht,
Wenn ich dann vor Dir steh.

Wir schreiten leicht, wie Schnee wir stehen,
die Wasser murmeln leis.
Flüsse, Wüsten, Berg und Meer
sind von uns durchlaufen.
Doch Tod entreißt mir meinen Preis,
Dich schauend, er gewinnt.

I did not reach thee,
But my feet slip nearer every day;
Three Rivers and a Hill to cross,
One Desert and a Sea — I shall not count the journey one
When I am telling thee.

Two deserts — but the year is cold
So that will help the sand — One desert crossed, the second one
Will feel as cool as land.
Sahara is too little price
To pay for thy Right hand!

The sea comes last. Step merry, feet!
So short have we to go
To play together we are prone,
But we must labor now,
The last shall be the lightest load
That we have had to draw.

The Sun goes crooked — that is night — Before he makes the bend
We must have passed the middle sea,
Almost we wish the end
Were further off — too great it seems
So near the Whole to stand.

We step like plush, we stand like snow — The waters murmur now,
Three rivers and the hill are passed,
Two deserts and the sea!
Now Death usurps my premium
And gets the look at Thee.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-eater, sloth, agouti, vampire-bat, marmoset, howling and prehensile-tailed monkey, the raccoon and muskrat carried by the angels from America to Asia? How did they get there? Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics? How did he know where the ark was? Did the kangaroo swim or jump from Australia to Asia? Did the giraffe, hippopotamus, antelope and orang-outang journey from Africa in search of the ark? Can absurdities go farther than this?

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

A traveller! I love his title. A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from ___ toward ___; it is the history of every one of us.

You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate
art.

Headed to the moon not now but soon.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

The only journey is the one within.

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you have still a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.