Timothy Radcliffe Quotes

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.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

Who's coming with me? I don't know where I'm going, but who's coming with me?

I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

Not all those who wander are lost.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

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.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

We were very scared. Going to America was almost like going to the moon.

In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown. My heart will keep the courage of the quest, And hope the road’s last turn will be the best.

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.