The finest made-up Camino quotes – from Goethe to Obi-Wan Kenobi

There are wonderful quotes about the Camino – from Goethe, Lao Tzu or Saint-Exupéry. But there are also quotes that sadly never existed but absolutely should. At least that's what we thought when we made them up.

Here is our collection of the finest made-up Camino quotes. You're sure to know the originals – and that's exactly where the fun lies. Please don't cite them in your doctoral thesis.

Poets and thinkers

• “It is only with the heart that one can walk rightly.”
  – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• “All men become pilgrims where your gentle wing abides.”
  – Friedrich Schiller
• “Through this hollow lane he has to walk.”
  – Friedrich Schiller
• “Two paths, alas, dwell within my breast.”
  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “And here I walk, poor fool,
  and much wiser than before!”
  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “Give every path the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.”
  – Mark Twain
• “All’s well that’s stamped well.”
  – William Shakespeare
• “I walk, therefore I am.”
  – René Descartes
• “All roads lead to Santiago.”
  – Alanus de Insulis

Great words of world history

• “I am the Way of St James, and the truth, and the life.”
  – Jesus of Nazareth
• “I came, I walked, I conquered.”
  – Julius Caesar
• “Ick bin ein Pilger.”
  – John F. Kennedy

From film and television

• “May the shell be with you.”
  – Obi-Wan Kenobi
• “The Camino is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
  – Tom Hanks in “Forrest Gump”
• “I’ll be back.”
  – Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Pilgrinator
• “Carpe iter – seize the way!”
  – Robin Williams as teacher Keating in “Dead Poets Society”

Folk wisdom and proverbs

• “Where there’s a will, there’s a Camino.”
  – Folk wisdom
• “Pilgrimage before pleasure.”
  – Proverb
• “Just when you think you can’t go on, another hill comes along from somewhere.”
  – Old proverb

Got one of your own?

Do you know a quote that’s too good not to pin on somebody? Write to us at info@caminoninja.com – we’ll be happy to add it to this page.

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