All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?
– Haruki Murakami
Related Quotes:
- The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. – Ursula K Le Guin
- Traveling into the unfamiliar is quite an adventure for a blind person. It makes me feel like a real explorer. – Gretchen Preston
- I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map. – Anne Sexton
- When character is lost, nothing is lost; when wealth is lost, something is lost; but when health is lost, everything is lost. – Tapan Ghosh
- When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
- When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
- Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
- If you want to love and understand yourself better, seek out unfamiliar people in unfamiliar places. – Elaine Orabona Foster
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. – Samuel Johnson
- A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
- Only a few have learned to savor the significance of solitude. Those who can glory in being alone on occasion are the saint or poet or explorer. – William P Barker
- She is off the heart’s map and her compass is spinning. – Mark Haddon
- Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you’re already home. – Shannon L Alder
- I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone. – Haruki Murakami
- Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn’t lead to anything – Haruki Murakami
- I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. – Nick Hornby
- Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. – Stephen King
- If the map doesn’t agree with the ground the map is wrong – Gordon Livingston
- A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. – Rebecca Solnit
- When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost. – Haruki Murakami
- It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami
- But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami
- Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end. – Haruki Murakami
- At some point paradise would be lost. – Haruki Murakami
- I’m alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world. – Haruki Murakami
- I’m alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world. – Haruki Murakami
- He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone. – Haruki Murakami
- I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely. – Haruki Murakami
- I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials. – Haruki Murakami
- The world is full of ways and means to waste time – Haruki Murakami
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
- alone doesn’t mean lonely. It just means alone. It just means that for now, you’re on your own, and that’s not a terrible thing. – Hemal Jhaveri
- We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
- She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. – Kate Chopin
- She is neither an explorer nor a mapmaker, but she can always find her way to my heart. – Anonymous
- …somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected. – Haruki Murakami
- He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further. – Haruki Murakami
- I’m solitary as a pulled tooth,Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. – Gail Carson Levine
- That’s when I realize how much I don’t want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport.. – Carrie Jones