The most terrible thing during the retreat was the crying of the women. When I think of retreat now, I see long, long roads, and numerous villages, and suburbs, and everywhere women's unspeakable weeping. Ukraine cried.
The present is always traveling from the past to the future.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
—Vincent Van Gogh
“The surest road to our own happiness is to seek the good of others.”
In Christ, justice and mercy embrace, suffering is the road to glory, the cross points to a crown, and the timber of the cross becomes the tree of life.
—Herman Bavinck
The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
—Sun Tzu
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
—Nikolai Gogol
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
—Seneca
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness.
One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.
—Sigmund Freud
One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. – C.S. Lewis
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
—Voltaire