Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Not all those who wander are lost.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

Being lost is worth the being found.

He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

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

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

I now walk into the wild.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the other side of it. That's in our nature. What's also in our nature is a profound love and connection to our children and our communities. Those two things are very much at conflict with one another at certain moments.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

There are no signposts in the sea.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.