Bruce Chatwin Quotes about Journey

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

Real, Home, Journey

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Bruce Chatwin

Morning, Journey, Fog

Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

Bruce Chatwin

Travel, Journey, Hiking

Bruce Chatwin (1990). “What Am I Doing Here?”, p.103, Penguin

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.

Bruce Chatwin

Fall, Animal, Journey

Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.271, Random House

A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

Bruce Chatwin

Journey, Als, Way

For life is a journey through a wilderness

Bruce Chatwin

Journey, Life Is A Journey, Life Is

Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.77, Penguin

I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed's dictum, 'A journey is a fragment of Hell.'

Bruce Chatwin

Night, Journey, Blue

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

Bruce Chatwin

Travel, Journey, Afterlife

Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.228, Random House