Astray Quotes

“Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.

How hard it is to tell what it was like,
this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn
(the thought of it brings back all my old fears),

a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer.
But if I would show the good that came of it
I must talk about things other than the good.”
― Dante Alighieri

“If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“But your laziness leads you astray;
your greed makes you dumb;
your gluttony makes enemies for you.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

“A sheep without a shepherd, go astray.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A man who saw has turned blind,
A hearer deaf,
A leader now leads astray!”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“A seeker of radical strenght
Keeps everything on track,
Feeble force yields at length,
Not sure where to go back.

When one can't find courage,
And all the efforts seem vain,
It's advised to fight like a sage:
Be powerful like a bullet train!

Too much work and no play
Can make a brain go astray!
Determined to live and stay
Can lead life into a long way.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“We often go astray, seeking our own way, until the the sacred moment of suffering, then we find grace to cry out for Saviour.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Now this peasant came to petition him a ninth time; he said: “O high steward, my lord! The tongue is men’s stand-balance. It is the balance that detects deficiency. Punish him who should be punished, and none shall equal your rectitude. When falsehood walks it goes astray.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Without a Shepherd, the sheep will go astray.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When a government is astray, it opens its zippers.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“Start your day without prayer, And your mind will go astray”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“So many paths have led me astray . . . But now things are going to be different. I don’t know what life is, but it is not loneliness.”
― Sigrid Undset, Marta Oulie

“Don’t be led astray. The best investment you can ever make is self-investment, and it pays the highest rewards. Invest now or regret later; it’s that simple.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“A paradox! By going astray, one reaches the goal the fastest.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“When the community went astray, no matter how much you shout, no one will listen to you, they will go after each other a successive path.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Follow your heart. You may go astray but your life will find its direction somehow.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“She would look us in the eyes and say, “Whenever you’re tempted, you’ve got to shout.” She then would scream the words so loud that we needed to cover our ears, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” Then she’d talk in a normal voice again and say, “The devil is ruling your lives. You need to learn how to say no. Stop throwing your pearls to the swine. Your lives have value, but you’re throwing it away.” Her voice would get desperate again and she'd say, “You must not give
yourself over to these things. They’re damaging you. They’ll destroy you. You must learn to stop.” Then she would turn to my friends and plead with them, “Please don’t lead my boy astray. He’s trying now, he’s trying to be better. Please don’t drag him down again.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“And he said...

...do not be so fast to follow in my footsteps when you can see that I am in a hurry to lead you astray.”
― Anthony T. Hincks