Bruce Chatwin Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Morning, Journey, Fog

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin

• Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Real, Home, Journey

• As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Fall, Animal, Journey

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.271, Random House

• Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Travel, Journey, Hiking

  Bruce Chatwin (1990). “What Am I Doing Here?”, p.103, Penguin

• A journey is a fragment of Hell.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Journey, Hell, Fragments

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.19, Random House

• Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Travel, Journey, Afterlife

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.228, Random House

• I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed's dictum, 'A journey is a fragment of Hell.'

  Bruce Chatwin

  Night, Journey, Blue

• For life is a journey through a wilderness

  Bruce Chatwin

  Journey, Life Is A Journey, Life Is

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.77, Penguin

• A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Journey, Als, Way

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