The Great Train Journey Quotes

“It’s safer in the jungle than in the town.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“There is something about passing trains that fills me with awe and excitement. All those passengers, with mysterious lives and mysterious destinations, are people I want to know, people whose mysteries I want to unfold. There is no joy like sitting in a train as it comes out of tunnels and jungles and passes through fields and villages—when small children shout and wave at you and you simply wave back to them.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass…”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“He felt a bit sorry for his mother and father—they would miss him…they would believe he had been lost for ever…! But one day, a fortune made, he would return home and then nobody would care any more about school reports and what he ate and why he came home late…Ranji would be waiting for him at the station, and Suraj would bring him back a present—an African lion, perhaps, or a transistor-radio… But he wished Ranji was with him now; he wished the ragged hippy was still with him. An adventure was always more fun when one had company.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

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― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“In the last few years I have passed through Deoli many times, and I always look out of the carriage window half-expecting to see the same unchanged face smiling up at me. I wonder what happens in Deoli, behind the station walls. But I will never break my journey there. It may spoil my game. I prefer to keep hoping and dreaming and looking out of the window up and down that lonely platform, waiting for the girl with the baskets. I never break my journey at Deoli but I pass through as often as I can.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“Mussoorie.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“Well, it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them. They have too much to take in, I suppose. Whereas people who cannot see (or see very little) have to take in only the essentials, whatever registers tellingly on their remaining senses.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“they will take you back to a time when life was not so full of care and there was time to stand and stare. But not for too long, or the train would leave without you!”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“That sad word love,’ she said, and became pensive and silent.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“Small wayside stations have always fascinated me. Manned sometimes by just one or two railway employees, and often situated in the middle of a damp subtropical forest, or clinging to the mountainside on the way to Simla or Darjeeling, these little stations are, for me, outposts of romance, lonely symbols of the pioneering spirit that led men to lay tracks into the remote corners of the earth.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

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― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey

“William Henry Davies wrote these lines in 1911, and they ring true even over a century later. It is the truth; we really don’t have the time to stand and stare. I always think of this when I don’t have the luxury of time and am told to travel by airplanes, usually for book fairs and literature festivals. I wish I could take the train to every destination I travel to. There would be so much more to see, and many more stories to tell. The first”
― Ruskin Bond, The Great Train Journey