Quotes About Elsewhere
If you didn't know, you wouldn't take him for part-ghost—but you'd know he wanted to be somewhere else.
~ China Mieville
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But a man cannot remain indifferent to the world around him; it worries him and torments him to think that he could be happier somewhere else, and that he is where he is simply through a mistake of fate
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
~ Henry Miller
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Every proposal to seek authorization elsewhere than in the gospel itself must lead us astray. The
~ Lesslie Newbigin
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He had an air of magnificent melancholy sophistication, as if his proper place were elsewhere, somewhere infinitely more compelling even than Brakebills, and he'd been confined to his present setting by a grotesque divine oversight, which he tolerated with as much good humor as could be expected.
~ Lev Grossman
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New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
~ John Updike
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It is thus always by virtue of a declination of meaning, or of non-meaning, that existence takes on form - by virtue, that is, of the deflection of something else. We have no will of our own, and the other is never what we would, of our own volition, choose to confront. Rather, the other is an invasion by something from elsewhere, priority given to what comes from elsewhere, seduction by foreignness and the transmission of foreignness.
~ Jean Baudrillard
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Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who thinks he's being followed.
~ Paul Theroux
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There is a world elsewhere.
~ William Shakespeare
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Though he looked like any other Bengali he felt an allegiance with the foreigners now. He shared with them a knowledge of elsewhere. Another life to go back to. The ability to leave.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
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Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.
~ Unknown
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If you try to engineer all of the risk out of a trade, it will only surface somewhere else when it is least welcome.
~ Unknown
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At other times the school has been less successful. As an institution, the school has not always been able to meet the unique needs of all of it students. For some of these students, RVA has exacerbated personal problems that might have been dealt with in a healthier way elsewhere. p219
~ Unknown
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We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.
~ Philip Pullman
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and asked the I Ching: Should I be here doing this, or should I go on somewhere else and keep searching? The reply came: Keeping still, so that restlessness dissolves; then, beyond the tumult, one can perceive the great laws.
~ Philip Pullman
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now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going
~ Lois Lowry
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A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
~ W.H. Auden
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Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, silently and very fast.
~ W.H. Auden
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And, hey, Mr. Zuckerman--the book.' 'What book?' 'Your book. Send the book.' 'You got it,' I said, 'it's in the mail,' and started back across the ice. He was behind me, still holding that auger as slowly I started away. It was a long way. If I even made it, I knew that my five years alone in my house here were over. I knew that if and when I finished the book, I was going to have to go elsewhere to live.
~ Philip Roth
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As far as 'St. Elsewhere' goes, I just loved that show.
~ Norman Lloyd
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Whenever I sign a couple of films, people say I'm not paying attention to my constituency. Whenever I go to Rampur or elsewhere, people ask me about my films. It is strange, really.
~ Jaya Prada
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Journeys to relive your past?' was the Khan's question at this point, a question which could also have been formulated: 'Journeys to recover your future?' And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
~ Italo Calvino
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And Marco's answer was: 'Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
~ Italo Calvino
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They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other.
~ Italo Calvino
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