John Barth Quotes

Though you feel you're not where you're suppose to be, you shouldn't worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

Yeah, it's been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one Now some of you might still be in that place If you're trying to get out, just follow me I'll get you there

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

There is no straight line to a dream.

['March'] is a path you must take if you want to move from one point to another point. If you want to make it down this very long and troublesome road, follow this path. Follow this message. Follow this map. And you will get there some day.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.