« All Old Fears Quotes
·
Paul Theroux's Page
Old Fears Quotes by Paul Theroux
1 Old Fears quote by Paul Theroux
More Quotes by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux has 149 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as…
-
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
-
The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though…
-
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…
-
Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel…
-
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
-
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
-
In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
-
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
-
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of…
-
My greatest inspiration is memory.
-
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
See all 149 quotes by Paul Theroux »
More Old Fears Quotes
Popular Old Fears quotes from across the collection:
-
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god,…
— Claude Vorilhon
-
Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a…
— Roger Waters
-
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord…
— Marilynne Robinson
-
Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.
— Raymond E. Feist
-
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from…
— Dante Alighieri
-
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of…
— Daphne du Maurier
-
I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually…
— Unknown Author
-
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your…
— Paul Theroux
-
How I wish you were here... We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year. Running over the…
— Pink Floyd
-
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, thequeers of homosexuality. In fact, they…
— Edmund White
See all Old Fears Quotes »
Browse Paul Theroux Quotes by Category