Quotes about reach
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“Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!”

James Rollins Black Order

Source: Black Order

World, Time, Madness

“Give me love, give me peace on earth,
Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth,
Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load,
Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)
Lyrics

Love, Life, Peace, Hope

“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”

Nicole Krauss book Great House

Source: Great House

Age, Failure

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Life, Past

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Death, Way, Birth

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

Night

“He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

Children, Time

“Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.

“Thank you, Rachel,” he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.

“Welcome back, my itchy witch.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

Mood

“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness…”

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

Music, Silence, Time

“The door slammed open. Vivenna jumped, putting a hand to her chest.

Vasher walked in. 'Start reaching for that sword when you're startled,' he said. 'There's little reason to grab your shirt, unless you're planning to rip it off.”

Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker

Source: Warbreaker

“He reached out and lightly touched her hair. There’s no way, he thought. I’m sunk. And my heart hasn’t beat the same since she walked into town.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Virgin River

Way, Heart

“At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine’s eyes.
", Shadowhunter," he said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Age, Motivational

“Honestly, darling," she said. "Do you even look in a mirror before you walk out the door? Your hair's a mess."

He dodged her as she reached toward his head. "Are you kidding? I spend hours in front of the mirror toit look this way.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Way

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Learning

“Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point”

Elizabeth Peters The Curse of the Pharaohs

Source: The Curse of the Pharaohs

Men

“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.”

Yōko Ogawa book The Housekeeper and the Professor

Source: The Housekeeper and the Professor

World, Way

“He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. “You’re black.”
“I prefer canine-American,” said Total.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”

Franz Kafka book The Trial

5; variant translations:
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
As quoted in The Unfinished Country: A Book of American Symbols (1959) by Max Lerner, p. 452; also in Wait Without Idols (1964) by Gabriel Vahanian, p, 216; in Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation (1995) by Vivian Heller, 39; in "The Sheltering Sky" (1949) by Paul Bowles, p. 213; and in the poem "Father and Son" by Delmore Schwartz.
There is a point of no return. This point has to be reached.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Source: The Trial

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

Source: Kitchen

Beauty, Way, Heart

“To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.”

Martin Buber book I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

God, World, Help

“Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

Evil

“There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder
and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“I love the relationship that anyone has with music… because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out…. It's the best part of us probably…”

Nick Hornby book Songbook

Source: Songbook

Love, Music, Parting

“Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”

Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

Life, Hope, Future

“I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Stupidity, Disease

“Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Appearance

“Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Collected Dorothy Parker

“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

“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Faith

“I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.”

Pearl S. Buck book The Good Earth

Source: The Good Earth

People, Books, Thinking, Reading

“Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.”

Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) American writer

Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

God

“Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

Hope

“With a sigh she reached into her pocket and drew out a small velvet bag, which upended on the table. Two gold rings fell out, landing with a soft clink. Simon looked at them puzzled. "You want to get married?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds
And see the world in endless sleep
The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap
A single choice shall end his days
Olympus to preserve or raze.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

God, World, Soul, Sleep

“It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach.”

Ayn Rand book We the Living

Source: We the Living

“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Freedom

“The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.”

Alfred Korzybski book Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

“I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Charmed Thirds

Love, Music, Time

“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”

Gail Tsukiyama (1957) American writer

Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

“He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

Time

“After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.”

Eleanor Estes book The Hundred Dresses

Source: The Hundred Dresses

Time

“I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, People, Learning

“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Love

“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Death

“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Love

“People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

People, Light

“Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

World

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

Bill Russell (1934) American professional basketball player and coach

Hope, Learning

“Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

“Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Beauty, Help, Forgetting

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Dogs

“Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.”

Robert McKee (1941) American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters

Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Life, Decision

“I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive… and open to growth”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Thinking

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: CAT'S EYE.

Life, Girl, Daughters

“But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

World, Help

“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

Music

“There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

Hunger, Knowledge, Sense

“To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

Life, Personality

“Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason”

Jimmy Fallon (1974) American TV Personality

Way, Star

“Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.”

Colson Whitehead book The Underground Railroad

Source: The Underground Railroad

Truth, Change

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

Joyce Maynard (1953) American writer

Children, Parent, Sun

“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.”

William Albert Allard (1937) Photographer

“You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

Wedding

“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

“Stop being so fruitlessly busy and. Use your. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

World, Dreams, Soul, Business

“We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.”

Albert Pike (1809–1891) Confederate States Army general and Freemason

Light, Hope

“The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

People, Success, Motivational, Graduation

“Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: A Killing Frost

Fear, Way

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Jayber Crow

Drawing

“God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

Source: Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender

God, Dreams, Past, Christ

“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

Faith, Soul

“When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large, scientific method in most cases fails us. One need only think of the weather, in which case prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”

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

1940s, Science and Religion (1941)

Nature, Thinking, Weather

“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”

Isabel Allende book Daughter of Fortune

Source: Daughter of Fortune

Angels, Hell

“You see how I try
To reach with words
What matters most
And how I fail.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

“Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for. […]”

David Eddings book The Diamond Throne

Source: The Diamond Throne

Drink, Heart

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”

Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist

Variant: Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

World

“Oh, man. You’re him. The cute and brooding vampire boyfriend.”
“She said I was cute and brooding?” I asked. “Never mind. Why can’t I reach her? Where is she?”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

“Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven…”

Scott Westerfeld book Blue Noon

Source: Blue Noon

Hell, Distant, Cry

“I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to”

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

Age

“My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Love, Hate

“I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a 'has-been' than a 'might-have-been' by far; for a 'might-have-been' has never been, but a 'has' was once an 'are.”

Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor

Star

“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Life, Age, Literature, Reading

“For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

Love, Dreams, Star

“She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected…. One was a wad of cash… she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Money, Moms

“I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Night

“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

A Note to the Reader
Source: The Historian (2005)
Context: As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.

History, Learning

“Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because theare funny but because your ownis funny.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

Support, Laughter