Voyages Quotes

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca The Younger

To read is to voyage through time. — Carl Sagan

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes. — Marcel Proust

Voyages are accomplished inwardly. — Henry Miller

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — Tennessee Williams

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

When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig. — Publilius Syrus

Everyone knows this.
The voyage into the interior is all that matters,
Whatever your ride. — Charles Wright

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. — Julien Green

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? — Abraham Cowley

Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. — David Doubilet

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! — George William Curtis

Writing, like life itself,
is a voyage of discovery. — Henry Miller

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

Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story. — Margiad Evans

I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse. — James Joyce

A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. — Madame De Stael

Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter whose bed you die in
the bed will be yours
for your voyage
onto the surgical andiron
of God. — Anne Sexton

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding

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

The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them. — Amelia E. Barr

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. — Charles Baudelaire

The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip ... — Timothy Leary

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible. — Gloria Steinem

There are no safe voyages and no safe ports. — Marty Rubin

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship. — Mel Brooks

Writing is always a voyage of discovery. — Nadine Gordimer

There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it. — H.M. Tomlinson

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. — Marcel Proust

Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one. — Thomas Wolfe

To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me. — Padraic Colum

You don't read to exercise the mind but to take voyages — John Geddes

To boldly go where no one has gone before — Stephen Hawking

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. — Wyndham Lewis

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission ... to boldly go where no man has gone before. — Gene Roddenberry

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course. — Albert Schweitzer

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. — Camille Paglia

For with the removal of all question of merit or payment, the soul is suddenly released for incredible voyages. — G.K. Chesterton

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along. — Jimmy Buffett

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. — E.B. White

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances. — Lee De Forest

A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there. — Dale Carnegie