Voyages Quotes - Page 2
Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.
Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.80, Macmillan
The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.
Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.469, Harvard University Press
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.49, Canongate Books
Wyndham Lewis (1976). “Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary Criticism”
…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America
Patrick O'Brian (2000). “Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.121, W. W. Norton & Company
Mary Butts (1992). “The Taverner novels”, McPherson