Quotes & Sayings About Lonely Journeys

Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself. — Vironika Tugaleva

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian. — Nicholas Lea

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. — Brian Tracy

NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must be loud and shrill dramatics, washed away by fierce internal surges. This is a kitschy fairy tale started by boozing journalists, flashbulb-seeking filmmakers and authors whose minds look like tabloids. In truth, the dramatics of a life-determining experience are often unbelievably soft. It has so little akin to the bang, the flash, of the volcanic eruption that, at the moment it is made, the experience is often not even noticed. When it deploys its revolutionary effect and plunges a life into a brand-new light giving it a brand-new melody, it does that silently and in this wonderful silence resides its special nobility. — Pascal Mercier

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone. — Jean Genet

At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will. — Jack Kerouac

As a middle class Indian you have always been taught to buy peace. Like a commodity. — Andy Paula

It is the habit of our species to despoil all we touch. Yet few see it so. — Geraldine Brooks

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. — Umberto Eco