Pilgrimage Quotes

“Let thy pilgrimage be a prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a long pilgrimage from fear to love.

— Paulo Coelho

The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“My prayer is my pilgrimage.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Seekers of wisdom, seekers of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself.”

— Anonymous

“Praying is holy pilgrimage.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

— Paul Harvey

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.

— Ross Douthat

Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

— Karen Russell

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

— Donald Cargill

“But you can’t go through a pilgrimage and not come out changed.”

— G. Willow Wilson

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

— Orderic Vitalis

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

— John Masefield

The Bible is a Perfect Map and Chart to the Christian on Pilgrimage Through the World.

— George Frederick Pentecost

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit…

— Francis Quarles

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because…

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting…

— Anonymous

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus…

— Pablo Picasso

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death?…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

— Laurie R. King

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within…

— Saraha

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not…

— Norman Davies

Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that…

— Christopher Columbus

“Pilgrimage always involves both an exterior and interior journey. Any travel can be a pilgrimage, regardless of the destination or whether or…

— David G. Benner

I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor…

— Phil Cousineau

The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been…

— Rachel Joyce

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her…

— Horace Walpole

Reading their books over and over again, people continue making mistakes; they are so proud of their religious robes. But what is…

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around…

— James Lileks

When I started out on my pilgrimage, I was using walking for two purposes at that time. One was to contact people,…

— Peace Pilgrim

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey…

— William Shakespeare

Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do…

— John Muir

The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human…

— Georg Hermes

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Phaedrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“My pilgrimage can be interpreted as a parable of my path through life. It was a difficult birth - which is literally…

— Hape Kerkeling

“The earth itself was but a mean stopping place, a wayside tavern of ill fame, on the way to these other worlds.…

— Lewis Mumford