Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted. But no matter where I go, I still come home.

Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.

But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.

Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

So much of who we are is where we have been.

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

How many roads must a man walk down?

I look back and say, "This must have been somebody else." I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

The journey is better than the inn".

I like exploring life and its complexities.

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.