Voyages Quotes - Page 4

• Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Travel, Journey, Men

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• Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Mean, Ignorance

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Greatness, Average

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

  Christina Baldwin

  Teacher, Writing, Diaries

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.18, M. Evans

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• There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Travel, Lasts, Firsts

  Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (2000). “O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life”, p.661, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Blow, Wrath

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Country, Art

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Heart, Cities, People

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• Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

  William George Jordan

  Inspirational, Fighting, Men

  William George Jordan (1910). “The Power of Purpose”

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

  Herman Melville

  Religion, World, Ships

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• If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

  Blaise Pascal

  Journey, Sea, Battle

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.87, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Pablo Neruda

  Tall, Taciturn

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.13, Macmillan

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

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Return, Whole

  "The Word for World Is Forest". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972.

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• The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do [with great artists]; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.

  Marcel Proust

  Stars, Eye, Artist

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “The captive, The fugitive”

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• Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage.

  Mary Butts

  Long, Goes On, Madness

  Mary Butts (1992). “The Taverner novels”, McPherson

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• The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Journey, Discovery

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• I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Travel, Home, Mean

  "A woman of substance". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2000.

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Piers, Walks, Those We Love

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

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

  Charles Simic

  Sight, Invitations

  Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.74, Copper Canyon Press

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• There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.

  Cesar Aira

  Dream, Views, Everyday

  César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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• That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Travel, Children, Growing Up

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• Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Home, Air, Views

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• There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Home

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

  Mel Brooks

  Ocean, Ships, Scripts

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animated figures.

  Charles Darwin

  Long, World, Maps

  Charles Darwin, R. D. Keynes (2001). “Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary”, p.445, Cambridge University Press

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