Quotes about place
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“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

Love, Change, Heart

“One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted —
One need not be a House —
The Brain has Corridors — surpassing
Material Place”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Housing

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”

Anne Enright The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

Heart

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”

Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher

Men, Personality

“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 54

Idea

“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Health, Communication, Sense

“One place understood helps us understand all places better”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Understanding, Help

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“Adrian.
He was the reason I was able to survive in this prison.
And he was also the reason I was here in the first place.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

“Mortal, if there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years, it’s this: lies are curses you place on yourself.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Source: Dead of Winter

Learning

“How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Heart, Forgetting

“Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”

Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter

People

“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.”

Richard Russo Empire Falls

Source: Empire Falls

People, World, Time, Heart

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

People, Time

“Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here is the place where I love you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Love, Dreams, Good Night

“Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

Pain, Music, Angels, Lovers

“Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The Calhouns: Suzanna & Megan

“Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Love, Wisdom, Happiness, Justice

“it is good to be sitting some place
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

Secret

“Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“This is the place of places and and it is here.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Beauty, Birthday

“Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: One Hundred Names

People, Fear

“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Way, Knowledge, Light

“Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

World, Thinking, Parting

“Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

Time, Personality, Forgetting

“Remember when i slept with my head
in a puddle at your feet?
It was humility, or atonement.
later your ankle was a pillow and
finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i
placed your hand above my heart,
like i forgot i didn't live there
anymore”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

Sleep, Heart

“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”

Gore Vidal book Julian

Source: Julian

Truth, History

“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”

Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire

Source: Soul of the Fire

World

“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

People, Feeling, Sense, Help

“Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Thinking

“But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

Way, Change, Time

“Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/
as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.”

Kay Ryan (1945) American poet

Water

“In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Bird, Light

“I dreamed of a green place once,” he whispered. “A manor house and a little girl with red hair, and preparations for a wedding. If there are other worlds, then maybe there is one where I was a good brother and a good son.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

World, Dreams, Girl, Wedding

“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Help

“I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

Water

“Everything feels right with the world…
… and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Challenger Deep

World, Sadness, Dreams, Feeling

“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.”

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

Nobel acceptance speech (1986)

Women, Men, Religion, Universe

“He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem’s place to do those things, not his. Not his.” -Will Herondale”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,—nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.”

Plutarch book Parallel Lives

Of Hearing, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Parallel Lives

“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

People

“This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

Feeling

“Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

Animals

“Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.”

Emily Giffin book Where We Belong

Source: Where We Belong

Heart, Forgetting

“I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love

“Art is not in some far-off place.”

Lydia Davis (1947) American writer

Source: The Collected Stories

Art

“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”

William Gibson book Zero History

Source: Zero History

Parting

“I know the place.
It is true.
Everything we do
Corrects the space
Between death and me
And you.”

Harold Pinter (1930–2008) playwright from England

Death

“He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest
where a heart would fit perfectly
and he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –
well then, game over.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Game, Thinking, Heart

“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”

Andrew Sean Greer (1970) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Time

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

People, Imagination, Understanding, Thinking

“When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Books, Light

“How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?

I read his mind.

I matched his DNA.

I smelled him.

I also did that.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 1: Gifted

Reading

“My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.”

Cynthia Kadohata book Kira-Kira

Source: Kira-Kira

World, Way, Sister

“Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:

"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"

This also became Conrad's epitaph.”

Joseph Conrad book The Rover

Source: The Rover

Life, Death, Sleep, Sea

“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”

Harun Yahya (1956) Turkish author

Question, Bird, Flying

“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

Source: The Lazarus Project

Love

“And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.”

Mineko Iwasaki (1949) Japanese Geisha

Source: Geisha, a Life

Parting, Training

“My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.'
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Fools

“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Home, Light, Water, Parting

“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Feeling

“She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Turbulent Sea

Love, Soul, Heart

“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way

Source: The Artist's Way

Pain, Learning, Time, Past

“Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.'

'I got it covered.'

'The DiMarcos might be in town.'

'Actually, they're in jail.'

'All seven of them?'

Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Dreams, Way, Learning

“Not fat, just not anorexic. She's soft in all the right places.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Heart of the Dragon

“Rhage nodded. “The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other.”
“That depends more on your mouth than any floor plan,” Phury said with a grin.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Variant: The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage
"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury
Source: Dark Lover

Dependency

“No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Hell, Heart

“It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.”

Mary Stewart Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy

Source: Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy

God

“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

World, Perfection

“When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

God

“Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

Thinking

“She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.”

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet

Love, Death, Fear, Lying

“A place to keep all your secrets”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Secret

“Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.”

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: American Wife

Appearance

“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Nature of Jade

Disappointment, Feeling, Sense, Loss

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

People, History, Time, Success

“The world is an inherently unfair place.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

World

“You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home… Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism…”

William Peter Blatty book The Exorcist

Source: The Exorcist

Home

“Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

“It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Life, Music

“It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

World, Time

“I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Time

“I say “Out” to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

Reality, Personality

“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.”

Ernest Cline (1972) writer

Reality

“Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, I've Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
Context: Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like any man, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Life, God, People, Mountain