Voyager Quotes

“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”

“The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?”

“Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager record will still be largely intact, in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy, preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished — perhaps before moving on to greater deeds and other worlds — on the distant planet Earth.”

“Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp. ... Like John Donne, man lies in a close prison, yet it is dear to him. Like Donne's, his thoughts at times overleap the sun and pace beyond the body. If I term humanity a slime mold organism it is because our present environment suggest it. If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there. ... If I dream by contrast of the eventual drift of the star voyagers through the dilated time of the universe, it is because I have seen thistledown off to new worlds and am at heart a voyager who, in this modern time, still yearns for the lost country of his birth.”

“Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.”

“We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.”

“And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.”

“Voyager upon life's sea: - To yourself be true And whate'er your lot may be Paddle your own canoe.”

“All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways."Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.”