Detours Quotes

“Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“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.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“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]”
― George Sand, Correspondance

“Odd, how life makes twists and turns. I never would have guessed that I’d end up where I am now, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I wouldn’t trade this path I’m on for the whole solar system, for that matter. If I’ve learned anything these last several months, it’s that sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After

“We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination”
― Paulo Coelho

“Never view obstacles in your path as the enemy. Rather, view any obstacles as detour signs to avoid pitfalls.”
― Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.”
― Ken Poirot

“There comes a time when we must rebel against the stop signs, detours, and bad counsel to stick with Yahweh. All those no’s create character, with a deeper shade of empathy. Carry on Ruth. To hell with all those human roadblocks.
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 29”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material

“In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.”
― Shannon Ables

“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.”
― Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper

“You know the feeling, when you decide to walk a certain way, and while actually taking the walk, you lose your way and tumble across an entirely new alleyway, you listen to your soul, that mad mad gypsy soul of yours and tread along that unknown path and get mesmerized by all the beauty that surrounds that path, and thank your soul for that walk, that strange crazy step that took you there. Meantime, that mind of yours, that overzealous protective disciplinarian, keeps reminding you how you've turned your path, how you are losing on Time and perhaps a little bit of your dream's favour, only to let your heart smile upon its foolishness, oh but nothing is a dead-end, just a detour and you can take as many detours as you want because your Soul isn't bound by Time and dreams are but Stardust born of every star dying to breathe in yet again, just another dance of a death and birth of a star, a dream, a path to find and to lose, a walk, a long long walk, a thousand detours and yet each one as full of life and beautiful as the majesticity of Life is meant to be.”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“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.”
― Jazz Feylynn

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

“What may at first appear as an obstacle, detour or meander in life, can in truth, often be the most direct, ground breaking, enriching, fruitful and enlightened... or clear path moving forward!”
― AshRawArt

“Easter is the road upon which detours die and consequences find no footing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we’re vigorously trying to walk away from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“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.”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“Like an intermission during a long movie, I was waiting for my “real” life to resume. I had never penciled in such a detour in any list I had made for my life.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Detours are paths to regret.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life's greatest lessons often masquerade as detours on the road to destiny.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero