Train Quotes

“Beth's not on that train?"

"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.”
― J.R. Ward, The King

“Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.”
― Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds, Butterfly Weeds

“The great trains are going out all over Europe, one by one, but still, three times a week, the Orient Express thunders superbly over the 1,400 miles of glittering steel track between Istanbul and Paris.

Under the arc-lights, the long-chassied German locomotive panted quietly with the labored breath of a dragon dying of asthma. Each heavy breath seemed certain to be the last. Then came another.”
― Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love

“It's been a year and nine month since we broke up. It's almost the second spring since then. When I turn 20 in March, I'm going to buy myself a much deserved present. A one way ticket to Tokyo. As for luggage, all I need is my guitar and my smokes. - Nana”
― Ai Yazawa

“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars... Anything is possible on a train...”
― Paul Theroux

“The siren soared again, closer at hand, and then, with no anticipatory roar and clamour, a dark and sinuous body curved into view against the shadows far down the high-banked track, and with no sound but the rush of the cleft wind and the clock like tick of the rails, moved towards the bridge - it was an electric train. Above the engine two vivid blurs of blue light formed incessantly a radiant crackling bar between them, which, like a spluttering flame in a lamp beside a corpse, lit for an instant the successive rows of trees and caused Gloria to draw back instinctively to the far side of the road. The light was tepid - the temperature of warm blood... The clicking blended suddenly with itself in a rush of even sound, and then, elongating in sombre elasticity, the thing roared blindly by her and thundered onto the bridge, racing the lurid shaft of fire it cast into the solemn river alongside. Then it contracted swiftly, sucking in its sound until it left only a reverberant echo, which died upon the farther bank.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Stop blaming people for not helping you to solve your problems. The question is simple "are they the ones in the problem with you"? People may teach you, people may advise you, people may inspire you, but it takes YOU to go the extra mile and make an indelible impact!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?'

Worries

Forget your worries

All the stations full of cracks tilted along the way

The telegraph wires they hang from

The grimacing poles that gesticulate and strangle them

The world stretches lengthens and folds in like an accordion tormented by a sadistic hand

In the cracks of the sky the locomotives in anger

Flee

And in the holes,

The whirling wheels the mouths the voices

And the dogs of misfortune that bark at our heels

The demons are unleashed

Iron rails

Everything is off-key

The broun-roun-roun of the wheels

Shocks

Bounces

We are a storm under a deaf man's skull...

'Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?'

Hell yes, you're getting on my nerves you know very well we're far away

Overheated madness bellows in the locomotive

Plague, cholera rise up like burning embers on our way

We disappear in the war sucked into a tunnel

Hunger, the whore, clings to the stampeding clouds

And drops battle dung in piles of stinking corpses

Do like her, do your job

'Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?”
― Blaise Cendrars, Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of the Little Jeanne de France

“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations

We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day

And vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")”
― Pierre Albert-Birot, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

“And then, every time I didn't see her, there was a fall involved. I thought about dancing on the fifth-floor ledge outside out apartment. Every train she wasn't on felt something like hitting the pavement from five floors up. So maybe my father was right about that. Maybe happiness and excitement really are dangerous things.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Chasing Windmills

“Just as we take a train to get to Beijing or Manhattan, we take death to reach a star.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness

“I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.”
― Elizabeth Newton, Furry Friends

“There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you?”
― John Burningham, Hey! Get Off Our Train

“I turn off my cell phone and reluctantly slide it down my pocket. My hands are shaking. A large knife appears in his hand.”

William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup”
― Steen Langstrup, Metro

“My doppelganger wraps the ear in a handkerchief and shoves it into his pocket as he leaves the train with a nod of his head in my direction.”

William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup”
― Steen Langstrup, Metro

“One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in our class, was run over by a New York City bound train right in the center of town. Our classmate left school in the middle of the semester. The gossip was that the woman must have thrown herself under the train. The adults whispered about reasons, usual ones, but my friends and I were too busy planning what to wear to the prom to wonder about the savagery of adult passion.”
― Inna Swinton, The Many Loves of Mila

“The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.”
― Amruta Patil, Kari

“There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Don't feel pity for those who will feel disappointed because you have scored! You were trained not to entertain a pity party but to excel in a winning game!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Прямо на «железках» стояло огромное жутковатое строение с трубой. Позади него, цепляясь друг за дружку, выстроились в ряд одинаковые обшарпанные сарайчики. И конструкция с трубой, больше всего напоминавшая паровую машину немыслимых размеров, и сарайчики были на колесах, а колеса в свою очередь стояли четко по «железкам».”
― Михаил Костин, Живое и мёртвое

“I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a pleasant experience, as I'm sure you can imagine.”
― Elizabeth Newton, Furry Friends

“Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken?
Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance, five-hour phone conversation?
The best soy latte that you ever had and me”
― Train train

“Be', proprio così, -insistette. - Perché non ti sposi?
Abbandonando la sua posizione, Zooey prese dalla tasca posteriore dei calzoni un fazzoletto piegato, [...] e disse: - Mi piace troppo viaggiare in treno. Quando sei sposato non puoi più sederti vicino l finestrino.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“You can hear the train in those lines; you can feel its rocking motion.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Trains and Lovers

“It's iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Here.” He spread his legs wider and patted the floor between them. “You’ll be warmer, and I promise I won’t grope you or anything.”

Yes, because getting groped by a handsome, charming man hours after getting dumped by a workaholic iceberg was such a repulsive notion.”
― Meg Maguire, Thank You for Riding