Age Quote by Francis Quarles

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

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

Over time, each day has become another stretch on an endless pilgrimage road. The terrain of this sacred journey has become fluid and ever-shifting.…

— Anthony Lawlor

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if…

— William Butler Yeats

“Who indeed knows the secret of the earthly pilgrimage? Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what keeps us…

— Alan Paton

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

— John Bunyan

“Of the life of man the duration is but a point, its substance streaming away, its perception dim, the fabric of the entire body…

— Marcus Aurelius

Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself…

— Rajneesh

Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon…

— John Quincy Adams

“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which…

— Marcel Proust

“The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that…

— Bertrand Russell

Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little…

— Horatius Bonar

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to…

— Huston Smith