Quotes about beyond
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“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Red Headed League

Time

“… alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.”

Lloyd Alexander book The Castle of Llyr

Source: The Castle of Llyr

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

People, World

“Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says.
Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Past, Fight, Hurt

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden

Variant: You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
Source: The Garden of Eden

Love

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“I want to be with you forever and beyond…”

Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Hope

“Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: The Impossible

Love

“He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

Sense, Time

“Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.”

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

Source: The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

Waiting

“Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Dreams

“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

Thinking

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)

Happiness, Happy

“SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.”

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (1968) Canadian writer

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Life

“Almost Beyond:
She laid on my chest & her breathing filled me almost to beyond what I could hold.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.”

Ted Dekker book Skin

Source: Skin

World

“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Life

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”

Lisa Gardner (1956) American author

Source: Live to Tell

Love, Hope, Thinking, Parent

“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”

William Gibson book Pattern Recognition

Source: Pattern Recognition

Soul

“I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Family, Idea

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Courageous

“Limitations are possibilities…
Opportunities to perceive ourselves
Beyond our present selves…”

Ilchi Lee (1950) South Korean businessman

Songs of Enlightenment

“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon?… The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, People, World, Hope

“To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Context: Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Way, Appearance, Time

“Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave”

Jude Watson (1956) novelist

Cats

“[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

Hope

“If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Soul, Nature

“No one should live beyond 30”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

Smile, Flowers, Sun

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 3001: The Final Odyssey

Chapter 19
Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey

Education, Intelligence

“Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall, the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

Beauty

“It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“Man is ultimately concerned about that which determines his ultimate destiny beyond all preliminary necessities and accidents.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

Systematic Theology (1951–63)
Context: Man is infinitely concerned about the infinity to which he belongs, from which he is separated, and for which he is longing. Man is totally concerned about the totality which is his true being and which is disrupted in time and space. Man is unconditionally concerned about that which conditions his being beyond all the conditions in him and around him. Man is ultimately concerned about that which determines his ultimate destiny beyond all preliminary necessities and accidents.

“I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.”

Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Source: Animal Dreams

Life

“You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Future

“Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say… Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.”

Brian Jacques (1939–2011) British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels

Source: Taggerung

“The door opened, and we were met by a fifty-something man with a grizzled blond beard. He was wearing Bermuda shorts and a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt. Also, he had an eye patch. "This is incredible," I heard Adrian murmur. "Beyond my wildest dreams.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Dreams

“Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?'
'I'm called Chocho,' Will said…
'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.”

Wil Wheaton (1972) American actor and writer

Source: Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise

World, Way, Chance

“My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it”

Iain Banks The Player of Games

Source: The Player of Games

Gratitude

“It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!”

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things

“I think that this scene is upsetting because it calls us beyond fact into the vast world of imagination, and imagination is a word of many dimensions.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Source: A Circle of Quiet
Context: In Kenneth Grahame's beautiful book, The Wind In The Willows, Mole and Rat go to the holy island of the great god, Pan. It is a superb piece of religious writing, but because it has gone beyond fact, it is deeply upsetting and untruthful to some people. If a story is not specified as being Christian, it is not Christian. But that is not so.
I think that this scene is upsetting because it calls us beyond fact into the vast world of imagination, and imagination is a word of many dimensions.

World, Imagination, Thinking

“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Beauty

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence.
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously)her first rose or if it be your wish to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly
as the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries
rendering death and forever with each breathing”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

W [ViVa] (1931) LVII

Life, Death, World, Travel

“Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Imagination, Freedom

“His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 2, p. 36

Understanding

“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

God

“The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet

Youth, Age, Beauty, Strong

“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Life, World, Way, Reality

“That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 19, Hot Potting, A story by Baroness Frostbite

Fear, Hope, Thinking, Tear

“God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

God

“The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

Truth

“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Hope, Summer, Childhood, Flying

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

Law, Food, Sea

“Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.”

Stephen R. Donaldson book Reave the Just and Other Tales

Source: Reave the Just and Other Tales

“But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Communication, Tear, Forgetting

“Who is Hunter Becker?"
"Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?"
"I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Source: The Judges

Life

“Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

"The Darlings at the Top of the Stairs", Lanterns & Lances (1961); previously appeared in The Queen and in Harper's Magazine.
From Lanterns and Lances‎

Age, Boy, Understanding

“… like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Star, Summer

“When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

“No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Age, Heart

“Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave—a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you’d have in conversation with a friend.”

Michel Houellebecq (1956) writer

Source: Submission

Literature

“It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

God, Books

“She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Life

“Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”

Coleman Barks (1937) American poet

World, Soul, Idea, Sense

“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

World, Soul, Bird

“Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Source: Role Models

Hunger, Pleasure, Youth, World

“When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

Drawing

“What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Love, Question

“Beyond the reach of human rage
A drop of hell, a touch of strange…”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

Hell, Rage

“The queen's guards might have been the best of the best, but Dimitri… well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Variant: ... but Dimitri... well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and he was using them all in defense of me.
"Stay back," he ordered me. "They aren't laying a hand on you.
Source: Spirit Bound

Lovers, Fight

“For man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”

John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Universe