End Of A Journey Quotes

9 quotes from 7 authors

When the road finally folds, thoughts appear as quiet warnings or strange echoes. These nine voices capture that moment—some caution against confronting a foe at the final stretch, others note how staying in the same mental state would keep us forever still. For more on change, see Life Transitions or Personal Growth.

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. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at…

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching…

Cormac McCarthy

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The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble…

George Eliot

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“...The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.”

Stella Gibbons

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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so…

Cynthia Ozick

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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey

Cynthia Ozick

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Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were…

John Keats

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My father was my mother's home, the one place that she knew she could be safe. It was all a journey of…

Rula Jebreal

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long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of…

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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