“The only way out is through”
"A Servant to Servants" (1914)
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Variant: The best way out is always through.
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Robert Frost265
American poet 1874–1963Related quotes
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“The way out, as the poet says, is always through.”
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
National Observer (20 January 1964)
Context: The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
Peter F. Drucker book Concept of the Corporation
Concept of the Corporation (1945)
compare Dwight Eisenhower's January, 1961 Farewell Speech
1930s- 1950s
“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”
Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“There is only one way to learn … It's through action.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 131.
“The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
