Quotes about road
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“Oak, granite,
Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing
Clover hills,
Remember me?
Sister, child,
Grown tall,
Remember me?
I remember you.”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

Sister

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Source: Bel-Ami

Life, Death, Feeling, Happiness

“He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

For Team, Business, Graduation, Success

“Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

God, Joy

“It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can.

—Boldred”

Brian Jacques book Martin the Warrior

Source: Martin the Warrior

Happiness

“Man, he wasn't going to need a stress test anytime soon. If his heart could get through a kiss from her, he could probably run a marathon.

While dragging a car behind him.

Sideways to the road.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

Cars, Kiss, Heart

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Way, Loss, Happiness

“There's more to getting to where you're going then just knowing there's a road.”

Joan Lowery Nixon (1927–2003) American children's writer and journalist

Source: In The Face of Danger

“Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage.

---Beth about Wrath”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

Rage, Perfection

“Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

Arturo Pérez-Reverte book The Fencing Master

Source: The Fencing Master

Travel, Loneliness

“Failure is but the longer road to triumph.”

Steve Hockensmith (1968) American writer

Source: Dreadfully Ever After

Failure

“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Life

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Source: The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

Travel, Flying

“There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Victory

“If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Music

“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Dead

“End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.”

Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist

Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

Patience

“There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Life, Pain, Learning, Teachers

“I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Tree

“When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

"The Epigrams of Lusin"
Variant: Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Hope, People, Hope, Country

“As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

God

“It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

“You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.”

Greg Mortenson (1957) American mountaineer and humanitarian

Education, Girl, Change

“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: After Ikkyu & Other Poems

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1

Hell

“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

God, People, Music, Jerk

“Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.”

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist

Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen

God, Secret, Way, Lovers

“The road to success is always under construction”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Success, Attitude, For Team, Positive

“It's just that… I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Life, Way, Thinking, Universe

“Every road i traveled led back to you”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Travel

“Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.”

Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Learning, Chance, Parting

“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“All my years to this moment
All my roads to this wall.
All my words to this silence
All my pride to this fall.
-Songs of Sapphique”

Catherine Fisher book Incarceron

Source: Incarceron

Silence

“I can only drive slowly."
"That's all right."
"And I can only do left turns."
Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!”

Hilary McKay book Saffy's Angel

Source: Saffy's Angel

Way

“Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.”

D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer

Source: Pendragon Before The War: Book Two Of The Travelers (Pendragon

Reading

“A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Idea, Horse, Night, Happiness

“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

1910s
Source: "The Road Not Taken", st. 4 (1916)

Age, Travel

“Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Star, Spring

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

Lois Wyse (1926–2007) American advertising executive

For Wife, Friendship, Powerful, For Friend

“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.”

Jimmy Buffett book A Pirate Looks at Fifty

Source: A Pirate Looks at Fifty

Life, Water

“Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works

“Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Echoes at Dawn

Life, People, Time

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Life, Way

“Things take the time they take.
Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Time

“And that - he pointed ahead - is the road to Hell. That's where we're going. I have always heard it was paved with good intentions, said Simon”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Alex Lightwood, Simon Lewis, and the Seelie Queen, pg. 353-354
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: There,' he said, pointing to the leafy tunnel. 'That goes farther into Faerie. And that'--he pointed ahead--'is the road to Hell. That's where we're going.'
'I always heard it was paved with good intentions,' said Simon.
'Place your feet upon the way and find out, Daylighter,' said the Queen.

Hell

“What is a Shadowhunter made of, if they desert their own, if they throw away a child’s heart like rubbish left on the side of the road? Tell me, Simon Lewis, if that is what Shadowhunters are, why would I wish to be one?”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Bitter of Tongue

Heart

“Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar”

Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020) British book editor

Source: The Hobbit

Home, Star

“You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either!
I need to spend some money or I’m going to go crazy!”

Sophie Kinsella book Mini Shopaholic

Source: Mini Shopaholic

Money, Clothes

“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Variant: All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Hell, Animals

“I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Dead

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

Variant: Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard

Way

“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Time of My Life

Love, Truth, Perfection

“What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll

“And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.”

William Kent Krueger book Ordinary Grace

Source: Ordinary Grace

Time, Happiness

“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”

Terry Brooks book The Elfstones of Shannara

Source: The Elfstones of Shannara

Hurtful, Way, Travel, Hurt

“Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?”

James Hilton Random Harvest

Source: Random Harvest

Idea

“My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Hell, Parent

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)

Travel

“It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you don’t know what adventures await you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Boy

“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”

Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

Dreams

“Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. 'I need a coffee shop or something.'
'I think I saw one in a cave down the road,' I said.
That almost got a smile from her.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Smile, Coffee, Thinking, Clothes

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience

Wisdom

“You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Fear, Waiting

“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Love, Hate, Suicide, Painting

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variant: You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Courageous, Disappointment, Courage, Waiting

“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”

Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer

Source: In the Presence of Absence

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Men

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

Ma Jian (1953) Chinese writer

Source: Red Dust: A Path Through China

Waiting

“Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.”

Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American writer

Fear, Time

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“roads were made for journeys not destinations”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Thinking