Journey To The East Quotes

#1. Hesse's Journey to the East (1951) in the fifties anticipated the occult revival of the late sixties. But who will interpret for us the amazing success of Rosemary's Baby and 2001? I am merely asking the question.

Mircea Eliade

#2. All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

George Eliot

#3. Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

Emily Dickinson

#4. [A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."

Ronald Reagan

#5. Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

Sam Worthington

#6. See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

Edwin Muir

#7. Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.

Shams Tabrizi

#8. Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

Juvenal

#9. The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Herbert Marcuse

#10. While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Better could the stem of a rose support a marble bust than the mind of man bear the false infinity of his own deification.

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentioned, people's hearts pivoted like Moslems to the east and flopped over. Sooner of later, he believed, at one stage of the journey or another, all roads led to the New Jersey Turnpike.

Kathryn Kramer

#13. If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

Katherine Dunham

#14. I would have perished had I not perished.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

Ayelet Waldman

#16. She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But there was no way there.

Edith Pattou

#17. abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).

Guy Deutscher

#18. Hey hey, I know!" said Dad excitedly. "Let's fix them up on a blind date! Can you imagine? Miss Butt, meet Mr. Tushman. Mr. Tushman, here's Miss Butt. They could get married and have a bunch of little Tushies.

R.J. Palacio

#19. The first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

John Ashbery

#20. East, West, South or North makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey, a journey within. If you travel within, you'll travel the whole wide world and beyond.

Elif Shafak

#21. Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

Karan Bajaj

#22. The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

James Cook

#23. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

George R R Martin

#24. Every new day is a divine order.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.

Melissa De La Cruz

#26. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

Andrew Ramer