Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii. Compare: "'T is always morning somewhere", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wayside Inn. Birds of Killingworth, stanza 16.
“The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“There's always something that's smoldering somewhere”
The Other End (of the Telescope), written by Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann
Song lyrics, All This Useless Beauty (1996)
Context: There's always something that's smoldering somewhere
I know it don't make a difference to you
But oh! It sure made a difference to me
You'll see me off in the distance, I hope
At the other end
At the other end of the telescope.
Twitter post https://twitter.com/jaynordlinger/status/1037178490376863744 (4 September 2018)
2010s
“It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.”
Rooming House Madrigals (1954)
“Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”
No Country for Old Men (2005)
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 2
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 201
Context: What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.
