Road Quotes

It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

~ Ryan Lilly

As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; “that business minded people can meet there easily! Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

No old road leads to new destinations! Change begins when one realizes that it is unwise to pour a new wine into an old wine skin. If you change your mind, you have to change your actions too!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are the steer of your God given dreams. By the authority from the Holy Spirit of God, you will able to bend a curve where the road has a bend; you will be able to reverse your movement when the need be.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Success will locate and visit you even if you are static wherever you are... But remember you are responsible for constructing the roads... Go, make the roads!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in life.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.

~ China Miéville

Can you walk the road your dream goes?Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.Who is not....

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Memory lane is not a road I like to go down. But that's the only way to remember not to forget.

~ Manasa Rao

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor as of roses preserved between the pages of a book, their significance long forgotten. The tongue of the road gobbled me up and I allowed myself to sink like a tasty mouthful all the way to the bottom of a marvelous, rejuvenating vacuity. Later, it would occur to me it’s the emptiness we mistakenly call Innocence.

~ Sol Luckman

Could he have been the fork in the road American never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong way from? Suppose the Slothropite heresy had had the time to consolidate and prosper? Might there have been fewer crimes in the name of Jesus, and more mercy in the name of Judas Iscariot? It seems to Tyrone Slothrop that there might be a route back--maybe that anarchist he met in Zurich was right, maybe for a little while all the fences are down, one road as good as another, the whole space of the Zone cleared...

~ Thomas Pynchon

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

~ Neil Gaiman

They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.

~ Jess Chief Brynjulson

Somewhere nere Ogallala, about six hours into that majestic, maddening prairie, I realize that half an hour has passed since I've seen a vehicle in either direction.Oh, I think, as I finally see a pair of headlights draw nigh in the eastbound lane, so this must be where the West begins.

~ Lily Burana

and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.

~ Antoine Wilson

I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.

~ Ted Conover

You dare travel on the own sacred road.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord point the right path for me to walk on it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

The road never ends ... only our vision does.

~ Amit Reddy

If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out - change your shoes and start walking.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

~ J.a. Redmerski

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet not even her determinedly bright self-reliance could disguise the loneliness that came from her almost palpably, like a heat haze. She asked for neither sympathy nor help but, like bereaved widow at a wake, she simply wanted company in her mourning.

~ Al Álvarez

The presence of a path doesn’t necessarily mean the existence of a destination.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream―all of it from beginning to forevermore. You're on that journey right now; hence, you're living the dream. Enjoy it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When “I” and “me” don’t get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show on paper or employment to take care of my health or the reassurance that I can pay my rent. And I have no right to complain because this is the road I choose and I built it myself, not really knowing where I wanted it to lead, but I have hope in all things ahead and behind and I am learning to let myself go. Forget my own ego and believe that what I am doing is grander than my very own self.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Failure is a fatality that carves the road to success.

~ Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

The road to recovery may be tough, but I've closed all the doorsthat lead to giving upWith only one choice in hand, I am focused on healing

~ Vijaya Gowrisankar

You came up this gut-wrenching road yesterday by yourself? Cassie exclaimed. You deserve a good cuffing just for driving this goat path on your own.It's not so bad once you get used to dodging the ruts.You've got some nerve calling these canyons ruts.Cassandra Hudson, where is your sense of adventure?I dropped it off going over that last rut-crossing when only two wheels were on the ground.Those ones are a bit exhilarating, aren't they? Alexandra shot Cassie a quick look and wink. Keep your eyes on the road!What road?Exactly!

~ H.h. Laura

Well, thank the gods,' he sighed.'Oh? And what would it be you're thanking them for?' Bahzell inquired, and Brandark grinned.'For making roads and letting us find one. Not that I'm complaining, you understand, but this business of following you cross-country without the faintest idea where I am can worry a man.

~ David Weber

Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepped out onto it, away from the trees, she felt how hard it was, and how long. She almost turned back then; but instead she took a deep breath of the woods air that still drifted to her, and held it in her mouth like a flower, as long as she could.

~ Peter S. Beagle

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going? We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

~ Jack Kerouac

It’s the journey, not the destination, but that doesn’t make sense until you get there.

~ J.r. Rim