Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

Travel itself is part of some longer continuity.

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

I know I can't stay here forever

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

I'm kind of addicted to moving.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

I left for New York three days after graduation.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!