Virginia Woolf Quotes

I now walk into the wild.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

I have gone to the forest.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

Outside of my family, I was always inspired by true heroic stories of leadership and survival. For example, the story of the Shackleton expedition, when their ship became lodged in the Antarctic ice pack while exploring.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.