Thomas Wolfe Quotes

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth.

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

Oh, the places you will go.

Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.

The journey is more important than where you end up.

The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive.

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.