Homegoing Quotes

#1. Home was that lone house on its great bend of Chatham River, no destination anymore but only the source of a vague sadness he thought of as "homegoing," a returning to the lost paradise of true belonging.

Peter Matthiessen

#2. To glimpse one's own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a place East of the Sun, West of the Moon - the homegoing that needs no home, like that waterfall on the upper Suli Gad that turns to mist before touching the earth and rises once again into the sky.

Peter Matthiessen

#3. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

Li Bai

#4. Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

Ian McEwan

#5. I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!

Gayathri Jayakumar

#6. Life has a way of evening out the injustices it has created.

Sheila Kohler

#7. Machine chaos on Earth, Too many bodies, mouths bleeding on every Continent

Allen Ginsberg

#8. Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

James Russell Lowell

#10. Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

Carine Roitfeld

#11. There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Laurence J. Peter