Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) Persian mystic, poet and saint
Source: Sarmad, Martyr to Love Divine, p. 240 (2005)
“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for.”
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for." by Louis L'Amour?
Louis L'Amour65
Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988Related quotes
“A trail without beginning has no end.”
Marion Zimmer Bradley book The Door Through Space
Source: The Door Through Space (1961), Chapter 5.
Bram Stoker book Dracula's Guest
Inscription found on the tomb of Countess Dolingen of Gratz by Jonathan Harker
Dracula's Guest (1914)
Variant: For the dead travel fast.
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Variant: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Source: Handle with Care
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Context: I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
Vannevar Bush book As We May Think
As We May Think (1945)
Context: The historian, with a vast chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which stops only at the salient items, and can follow at any time contemporary trails which lead him all over civilization at a particular epoch. There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected.