Pilgrim Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pilgrim quotes, pilgrim sayings, and pilgrim proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

For the pilgrim, the road is home; reaching your destination seems nearly inconsequential. Andrew Schelling
I am a pilgrim, / wandered afar, / lands - west and east - arid and dry. / Mercy upholds me to get up and stand, / in storms- takes me by the hand, / guards my feet from sinking sand, / comforts my soul when tired and tried, / Donka Krsteva
As a weary pilgrim, now at rest, / Hugs with delight his silent nest / His wasted limbs, now lye full soft / That myrie steps, haue troden oft. Anne Bradstreet
I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way, / Or male and female devilkins to lead my feet astray. / If these are added, I rejoice---if not, I shall not mind, / So long as I have leave and choice to meet my fellow-kind. / For as we come and as we go (and deadly-soon go we!) / The people, Lord, Thy people, are good enough for me! Rudyard Kipling
Life’s paths become a pilgrim way. / Believe today is that brighter day! / We cast off darkness and decay. / Absorb rain’s spray, sun’s ray. Melita Catalina Warren
Vain folly of another age, / This wandering over earth, / To find the peace by some dark sin / Banish'd our household hearth. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing / Went I forth the world to roam-- / And the dance of youth, the glowing, / Left I in my father's home, Friedrich Schiller
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. Karen Armstrong
I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home. Seth Adam Smith
The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained. Susan Cheever
Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio. Morley Safer
The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming. In fact, they never had a good harvest until they learned to fish cod and plow the waste in the ground as fertilizer. Mark Kurlansky
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best-known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim. Peace Pilgrim
In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred. Phil Cousineau
We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them. Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did. Will Cuppy
I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth Pope Benedict XVI
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. Anne Michaels