#voyage

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#him #his #port #serves #voyage

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#cannot #home #i #i am #mean

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#voyage-of-the-dawn-treader #love

I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth. ↗

— Mathias Malzieu

#journey #love #moon #real #voyage

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#death #last #longest #voyage

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family. ↗

— Joachim du Bellay

#experienced #family #fine #golden #happy

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#asia #discovery #eastern #expedition #far

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. ↗

— William Kidd

#care #death #england #friends #good