33 Quotes About Detours

The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.

People talk a lot about midlife crisis, the momentary stress that arises when you finally slack off. The sublime flash of greenish light as the curtain of the sanctuary rips, when poets start reviewing books and programmers take jobs in quality control.

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.")[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

The road had detours, stop signs, missed turns, hills and valleys, deep, deep tangled forests, ruts and potholes, icy patches, and spin-outs along the way.

Keep walking for sometimes the detours may find you a door, a route opening into a pathway that you never knew danced inside the buried layers of your wandering soul.

You don't realize it at the time, but some of life's roadblocks, detours, and rejections are answered prayers.