Voyager Quotes

“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
It only can be squandered.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.

We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some--perhaps many--may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:

This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe”
― Jimmy Carter

“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.”
― Carl Sagan

“Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.”
― Amit Kalantri

“I love you," Kathryn said simply.
"I like hearing you say that." Chakotay smiled.
"Good," Kathryn replied, resettling herself beside him, "because if we do this, we do it together.”
― Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide

“A book is a journey. Journeys need their voyagers, and voyagers require a diversity of scenes; experiences.”
― Pablito Greco

“A man should pay tribute to your body," he said softly... "For you are beautiful, and that is your right.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.”
― Jimmy Carter

“… car c’est souvent en errant seule dans les villes inconnues que je suis le mieux arrivée – mais à quelque chose d’autre que ce que je pensais chercher et qui fut presque toujours meilleur.”
― Gabrielle Roy, La Détresse et l'Enchantement

“Les papiers des Etats-Unis n’ouvrent pas les portes du paradis. À désirer avec modération.”
― Naïde Pavelly Obiang

“This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.”
― Jimmy Carter

“I wish it were as easy to stop hating as it was to start.”
― Michael Piller

“Comets are the icy heralds from a bygone epoch. When the Solar System was forming these icy leftovers brought water to the inner planets. Now they are merely ghostly messengers who write their stories in dust; each statement costs the comet dearly.”
― Stuart Clark, Saturn

“Si vous voulez voyager longtemps dans cet univers, vous devriez vous arrêter et vous reposer en chemin de temps en temps et vous récompenser !”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I have knelt is silent prayer, and also cried towards heaven countless times. I have repeated words as mantras, and I have executed dozens of heartfelt discourses to the open air. When did I top praying so often about losing my father, and being praying to find myself? At some point, it was not so much about my Dad, and not even about loss. It became about the way forward. Now I am the voyager, stuck as I am. in memories and more.”
― Piper Winifred, The Path of Grief: & the Imagined Future

“But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you...I have no name.”
― Diana Gabaldon