Quotes about place
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“(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.)
Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it’s a bat cave. (Chris)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Spring

“Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.”

Gregory Maguire (1954) Novelist

Home

“If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Hurt

“There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.”

Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) Chef and food writer

“He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.”

Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist

World, Way

“When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker around me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Life, People, Star, Forgetting

“I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway)
I don’t want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Ice

Love, Food

“When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

Death

“I have gone into the waste lonely places
Behind the eye.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

"Meditations of an Old Woman: First Meditation," ll. 76-77
Words for the Wind (1958)

“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

Death, People

“All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?'
'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.”

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

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Way, Personality

“For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.”

George MacDonald book At the Back of the North Wind

Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18

Love, Heart, Dependency

“Home is the place where they have to take you in”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

Home, Peaceful

“What do you mean, Araluen? Death?"
Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.”

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

Source: The Battle for Skandia

Life, Death, Departure, Dependency

“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. But I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is. It's the thing you're talkin about. I've heard it compared to the rock — maybe in the bible—and I wouldnt disagree with that. But it'll be here even when the rock is gone. I'm sure they's people would disagree with that. Quite a few, in fact. But I never could find out what any of them did believe.

Truth, Thinking, Change, Time

“Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Friendship, Family, Way

“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), p. 212. ISBN 978-0-375-50789-2

Life

“Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”

Michael Mewshaw (1943) American writer

Way, Feeling, Home, Personality

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you
must make, not a place you must find.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Faith

“Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick."

Until it broke.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

Beloved (1987)

Love, Freedom

“Hearing him say it now, that is was my birthday present, touched me in the last place I wanted him to touch me. My heart.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Birthday, Heart

“There still might be a place for us somewhere.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

Preface
Source: Adonais (1821)

Love, Death, Thinking, Winter

“I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.”

Louise Erdrich book The Master Butchers Singing Club

Source: The Master Butchers Singing Club

Travel, Singing, Time

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.”

Washington Irving book Tales of a Traveller

Tales of a Traveler (1824), Preface, p. 7.
Source: Tales of a Traveller

Travel, Change

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

World

“Any place I hang my head is home.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Home

“Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on?
Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line.
Jamie: OK…
Landon: You're in two places at once.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Personality

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Life, Death, Health

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer

“People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

People, Time

“I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Hope, Heart

“A home to come back to every day of their lives.
Where they would all belong or long to be.
A place on the Jellicoe Road.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Home

“Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl.

"Underground," he said. "My favorite place."

Underground wasJason's favorite place.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Smile

“Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's closing time.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Death, Sex, Feeling, Freedom

“We note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

Source: Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

“The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.”

George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian

Truth, Idea

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

William James book The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

Life, Knowledge

“Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

World, Question, Time

“Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;
And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;
And it’s sweet to dream in Venice, and it’s great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

Variant: Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
Source: America for Me (1909), Lines 9-12.

Dreams, Home, Flowers, Study

“Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

“My mother said I broke her heart… but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us… but within that inch we are free.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Heart, Selfishness

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Love, Heart

“He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Lyra to Pan in Ch. 38 : The Botanic Garden
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
Context: "I remember. He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn’t live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place."
"He said we had to build something…"
"That’s why we needed our full life, Pan... we wouldn’t have been able to build it. No one could if they put themselves first. We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we’ve got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we’ll build…"

Life, World

“For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Soul

“Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…. For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

Life, Reading

“And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Chapter 30 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_30 <br class="br">Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

God, Gratitude

“It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.”

Charles Addams (1912–1988) Cartoonist

Life, People, Dogs, Hell

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

World

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

World, Home

“Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too.

"It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock.”

Jim Butcher book Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

Sleep

“… when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

Life

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”

Raymond E. Feist book Krondor: The Betrayal

Source: Krondor: The Betrayal

World, Dreams

“It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Chance, Time

“If our faith is strong, we’ll go to heaven, and we’ll understand the whole thing when we get there. As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

Life, Faith, Understanding, Strong

“I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Way, Feeling, Heart

“The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Heart

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Way, Sense, Time

“That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life

Life, Feeling, Waiting

“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Variant: Time is the longest distance between two places.
Source: The Glass Menagerie

Time

“Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“Sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

“You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Success

“If I ever leave this place-
I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.”

Siri Hustvedt book The Summer Without Men

Source: The Summer Without Men

Reading

“lies are curses you place on yourself.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Dead of Winter

“What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”

Cormac McCarthy book Suttree

page 130
Source: Suttree (1979)
Context: Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.

God, Soul

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Source: 1930s, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), p. 322
Context: Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinctions, the most striking of which is sex. It will not be by the mere abolition of these distinctions that society will develop patterns in which individual gifts are given place instead of being forced into an ill-fitting mould. If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.