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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Apocalypse Life The Road Thoughtful

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

~ Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian Destination Essence Future Gist Horizon Meaning Point Road Significance The Point The Road

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Memory The Road

A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Cold Fire Memory Remember The Road

You have to pay attention to the road even if you don't know where you're going.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Paying Attention The Road Travel

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

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Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance

~ Jack London

Jack London Hobo Jack London The Road Tramp Travel

The journey took about a week each way, and each day had my parents both in its grip. Riding behind my father, I could see that the road had him by the shoulders, by the hair under his driving cap. It took my mother to make him stop. I inherited his nervous energy in the way I can't stop writing on a story. It makes me understand how Ohio had him around the heart, as West Virginia had my mother. Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. And all the time that we think we're getting there so fast, how slowly we do move.

~ Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty Destination Journey Nervous Energy The Road Travelers Writers

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Altruism Cormac Mccarthy Morality Selfishness Survival The Road

The road home is tinged with regret and the road forward is full of the unknown.

~ Joaquin Lowe

Joaquin Lowe Moving Forward Regret Road Ahead The Road Unknown

Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Cold Night The Road

He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. An old chronicle. To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination... Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Compass Direction Night The Road

He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starless dark. Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Blessing Fire Night The Road

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Cormac Mccarthy Fire The Road Trees

Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom—we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human experience. All road narratives are to some extent built on quest. If you’re a woman, though, this fundamental possibility of quest is denied. You can’t go anywhere if you can’t step out onto a road……(T)here is no female counterpart in our culture to Ishmael or Huck Finn. There is no Dean Moriarty, Sal, or even a Fuckhead. It sounds like a doctoral crisis, but it’s not. As a fifteen-year-old hitchhiker, my survival depended upon other people’s ability to envision a possible future for me. Without a Melvillean or Kerouacian framework, or at least some kind of narrative to spell out a potential beyond death, none of my resourcefulness or curiosity was recognizable, and therefore I was unrecognizable.

~ Vanessa Veselka

Vanessa Veselka Sexism The Road
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