“Even the most distant and exotic place has its parallel in ordinary life.”
Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist
Fresh Air Fiend (2000)
“Even the most distant and exotic place has its parallel in ordinary life.”
Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist
Fresh Air Fiend (2000)
“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“The person who started my nomadic life was my grandmother.”
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945) Swedish female singer
Interview on Skavlan (2014)
“Serenely let us move to distant places”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
“All places are distant from heaven alike.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 4, Exercise rectified of Body and Mind.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“His cold remains all naked to the sky,
On distant shores unwept, unburied lie.”
XI. 72–73 (tr. Alexander Pope); of Elpenor.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau