Voyages Quotes

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

— Aphra Behn

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...

— Hart Crane

Writing is always a voyage of discovery.

— Nadine Gordimer

To read is to voyage through time.

— Carl Sagan

There is a tide in the affairs of men

— William Shakespeare

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”

— Christina Baldwin

To boldly go where no one has gone before

— Stephen Hawking

Life's uncertain voyage.

— William Shakespeare

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

— William Shakespeare

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

— Anonymous

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

— Agatha Christie

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

— Henry Miller

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

— Jeanette Winterson

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

— Paul Strand

“She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.”

— Micheal Rivers

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

— Ivan Doig

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea…

— Anonymous

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

— Amelia Barr

From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

— Barbara Ascher

I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new…

— Steve Martin

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a…

— Marcel Proust

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition…

— John Galsworthy

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were…

— James Russell Lowell

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru.…

— Thor Heyerdahl

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart…To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before…

— Thomas Wolfe

This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey…

— Lord Byron

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same…

— Henry Ward Beecher

She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like…

— Virginia Woolf

The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;…

— Charles Darwin

There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book…

— Anonymous

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

— Christopher Columbus

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent…

— Jonathan Swift

We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with…

— Robert Kennedy

If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half…

— Herman Melville

My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York…

— Robert Fulton

“In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships…

— Peter Nichols

It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess…

— Charles Caleb Colton