Quotes about place
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“When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

Beauty, Art, Music, Time

“If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

“Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings.”

Robin Hobb book Royal Assassin

Variant: Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.

Wolves have no kings
Source: Royal Assassin

Life, Pain, Time, Heart

“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Camelot is a silly place.”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen

“We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, all over the place.
Steadfastness, it seems,
is more about dogs than about us.
One of the reasons we love them so much.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Dog Songs

Love, People, Dogs

“Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

Life, Books, Time

“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Carpe Corpus

“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”

Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are

Source: Where the Wild Things Are

“I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids

Source: The Day of the Triffids

“They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

Source: Lectures on Philosophy

Feeling, Understanding, Personality

“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128

“These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot.
'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

“Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.”

Steven Erikson book Midnight Tides

Source: Midnight Tides (2004)

“Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Love, Happiness

“There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

“Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Mercy

Travel, Home, Personality

“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”

Alain de Botton book The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.

1. Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

4.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Food, Sleep, Silence

“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”

Scott Westerfeld book Peeps

Variant: It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Source: Peeps

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

Death, God, Fear, Beauty

“If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.”

Charles Stross (1964) British science fiction writer and blogger

Source: Toast, and Other Stories

“So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, Happiness

“They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.”

Martin Amis book Time's Arrow

Source: Time's Arrow

“Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

“Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Letter to a Young Clergyman http://www.online-literature.com/swift/religion-church-vol-one/7/ (January 9, 1720)

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

“How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”

Raymond E. Feist (1945) Novelist

“This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Life, Time

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

“Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.”

Edna Ferber (1885–1968) Novelist, playwright

Source: Gigolo

“It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Happiness, Heart

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Philippica IX, 5.
Source: Philippicae – Philippics (44 BC)

Life, Memory, Dead

“It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Love, Feeling, Freedom, Water

“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Waiting, Parting

“The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

God, Personality

“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

Law, Idea, Time

“We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Books, Fashion, Success

“a woman's place is in the kitchen… sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Drink, Wine, Cooking

“We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.”

Lois Lowry Gathering Blue

Source: Gathering Blue

“I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Oh My Goth

People, Lie, World, Personality

“You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exsist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
"I do.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.”

Dan Chaon book Stay Awake

Source: Stay Awake

“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."

He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love, World, Learning

“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and
let go?”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

History, Question, Memory, Time

“This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.”

Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated… Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished.”

Jean Ferris (1939–2015) American children's writer

Source: Once Upon a Marigold

“Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

“But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

“The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”

Alan Moore book From Hell

Source: From Hell

“There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

“Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams…. A place of peace and harmony… that's the kind of land I invision.”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Happiness, Peace, Dreams, Hope

“Can you get it? (Jaden)
If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron)
I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden)
So would I. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“I put my head
out of my window and see
how much the wind’s knife
wants to slice it off.
On this unseen
guillotine, I’ve placed
the eyeless head
of all my desires.”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

“Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.”

Sherwood Anderson book Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.”

Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice

Source: Inherent Vice

“Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Source: Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!

“I love people. I love my family, my children … but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

As quoted in The New York Post (26 April 1959)

Love, Children, People, Family

“I warn you, the trip will not be easy. Once you choose to walk in the light, your path will lead you places you do not want to go.”

David Farland book The Courtship of Princess Leia

Source: The Courtship of Princess Leia

“He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.”

Valerie Martin (1948) American writer

Sadness, Forgiveness, Parting

“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

Source: The Magnificent Defeat

Way, Home, Courage, Heart

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Stupidity, Feeling

“Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Feeling, Exercises, Thinking

“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”

Iris Murdoch book The Red and the Green

The Red and the Green (1965), ch. 2, p. 30.

“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.”

Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

“And you read your emily dickinson,
And I my robert frost.
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what weve lost.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”

Richard Brautigan The Tokyo-Montana Express

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“This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”

Alessandro Baricco book Ocean Sea

Source: Ocean Sea

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.”

Nicole Krauss book Great House

Source: Great House

Sadness, Parting

“Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Certain Girls

“Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Jace Herondale, to Zachariah, pg. 236
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate

“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

“There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Life, War, Fight

“I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”

Rudyard Kipling book Just So Stories

The Cat that Walked by Himself.
Just So Stories (1902)
Source: The Cat That Walked By Himself

“… in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist