Best Voyage Thoughts
225 Voyage quotes by 173 unique authors
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To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...
— Hart Crane
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and…
— Winston Churchill
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We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows…
— Charles Wright
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A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
— Charles Simic
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break…
— Pat Conroy
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through…
— Carl Sagan
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It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the…
— China Mieville
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Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come?…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would…
— William Shakespeare
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As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
— Jack Kornfield
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Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power…
— Paulo Coelho
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One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
— Herman Melville
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The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to…
— Marcel Proust
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set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts
— Mary Pope Osborne
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You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.
— Jeanette Winterson
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The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the…
— Carlos Fuentes
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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
— Gustave Flaubert
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...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever…
— Herman Melville
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If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed…
— Herman Melville
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She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking…
— Virginia Woolf
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