Arrive Quotes
740 quotes by 607 authors
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...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up…
— Jose Saramago
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With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
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All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or…
— Shane Claiborne
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We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already…
— Thomas Merton
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All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the…
— Nicole Krauss
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The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
— Raymond Chandler
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I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive
— Robert M. Pirsig
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To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition…
— Marcel Proust
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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity,…
— Abraham Verghese
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It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety. . . . We should celebrate today's failure because it…
— Jacqueline Kelly
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I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still…
— Colum McCann
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Have you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not…
— Ann Aguirre
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i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!
— Paulo Coelho
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Secrets. I can't take then with me. If I do, when I go, when I arrive at my final destination, I'll be . . .…
— Julie Anne Peters
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I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal…
— Nicholson Baker
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The Master said, “To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from…
— Confucius
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