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 were on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars …
– Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump aboard
or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
– Yasmina Khadra
The train is a small world moving through a larger world.
– Elisha Cooper, Train
A train is a vehicle that allows residence:
dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer…
– Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
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
Railway terminals are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.
Through them, we pass out into adventure and sunshine,
to them, alas! we return.
– E. M. Forster
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s
very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
– Paul Simon
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered
is to miss the train before.
– G.K. Chesterton
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.
– Paulo Coelho
My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not be knowing,
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry