Arrival Quotes

“People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?"

"Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.”
― Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine

“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“The ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in"

"Fermat's principle sounds weird because it describes light's behavior in goal-oriented terms. It sounds like a commandment to a light beam: "Thou shalt minimize or maximize the time taken to reach thy destination.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“Well, my friends give me purple flowers and orange tea
and goosedown spinning quilts and torquoise chairs
we greet one another in a wild profusion of words
and wave farewell amidst the wonderment of air
In the laughing times we know we are lucky
In the quiet times we know that we are blessed
And we will not be alone”
― Dar Williams

“It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it.

Don’t just fit in; make it a point to brighten your corner. Decide to resolve your challenges.

Don’t just manage; go extra mile and win your race. Never give up the fight. You will win.

Don’t just be able; always make sure you are available. Be present to make a change.

Don’t just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished.

Don’t just wish; be passionate about what you wish to see happen. Rise up and make it happen.

Don’t just create; create to change; change to improve; improve to increase. Aspire to inspire.

Don’t just be making a living; make a life and leave an indelible footstep wherever you step.

I want to meet you and many others on the top. Don’t be left out!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“That (labyrinth)...became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one. After that careful walking and looking down, the stillness was deeply moving...It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust

“The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“My arrival
Her womb’s delight
Her existence
My living light
Her wounds
My scars
Her skies
My stars
Her days
My hours
Her strength
My powers
I breathe my name
Being her child
Without mother
Life’s beguiled

From the poem 'Mother”
― Munia Khan, Beyond The Vernal Mind

“I am mad with joy.--At least I think it's joy. Strangers have come, and it's a whole new game. I kiss the ice on the frozen creeks, I press my ear to it, honoring the water that rattles below, for by water they came: the icebergs parted as if gently pushed back by enormous hands, and the ship sailed through, sea-eager, foamy-necked, white sails, riding the swan-road, flying like a bird! O happy Grendel! Fifteen glorious heroes, proud in their battle dress, fat as cows!”
― John Gardner

“When you feel negative energy coming your way,
DOA-Dismiss On Arrival”
― Charmaine J Forde

“I just hope — if he does come — it won't be some sort of horror show.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;'
And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;'
The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;'
And the lily whispers, 'I wait.'

Alfred, Lord Tennyson”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

“When I arrive to a new place, it is no longer the place it was before my arrival. And I am not the same person either. I change it and it changes me on the spot. And together we give the world a slightly different face.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while... It destroys before negotiations!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hey, guys,' he said, 'this is crazy. We did it. We finally got to where we were going. This is Milliways!'
'Milliways!' said Ford.
'Yes, sir,' said the waiter, laying on the patience with a trowel, 'this is Milliways—the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.'
'End of what?' said Arthur.
'The Universe,' repeated the waiter, very clearly and unnecessarily distinctly.
'When did that end?' said Arthur.
'In just a few minutes, sir,' said the waiter. He took a deep breath. He didn’t need to do this since his body was supplied with the peculiar assortment of gases it required for survival from a small intravenous device strapped to his leg. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“On this diet of expectation, he had fairly frenzied himself by the time he arrived.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“so it came time and
no day like that is ever
good in the coming”
― Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

“Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together. It is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.”
― Jeremy Renner

“Whether we trek, crawl, or fly, we are bound to arrive where we ought to.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“I kept taking one step forward and two back. Then I went all the way around backwards and arrived where I had dreamed of going.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Being the first to start or leave does not necessarily mean that you will be the first to finish or arrive. Or that you will finish or arrive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Their arrival was heralded by a speedy whooshing and whirring, accented with clattering clunks and clicks.”
― Sarah Tait, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“Don’t just wait for a keyboard if you can write using a mouse, but don’t be stupid by not visualizing it’s arrival.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Confirm the celebration reservation for the arrival at your goal finish line!”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“A true genius recognizes that if they’ve arrived at a conclusion there’s a good chance that they’ve yet to arrive.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough