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Quotes About Place

Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are places where he doesn't belong, and those where he seems to fall right in.
~ Chris Ware
Where can I go. Is it possible to imagine a world, a time, where I would have a place. There's no one I could ask. That's the answer.
~ Christa Wolf
Yes, Evangeline loathed this place, but she loathed more the vanity and naivete and willful ignorance that had landed her here.
~ Christina Baker Kline
I've come to think that's what heaven is—a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on. Maybe
~ Christina Baker Kline
Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace, Grant me. Father, a servant's place.
~ Christina Rossetti
Children of borderlines and survivors of hurricanes have much in common. Survival is dependent on finding a safe place, staying low, and not being fooled by the eye of the storm.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It arises out of personal needs and social crises but looks beyond them to truth.
~ Christine Helmer
Once you have that feeling of that great mystery, any piece of information feels like a treasure trove. Whether it's a name or a place where somebody once was, it's a form of a connection that you thought you were never going to have.
~ Christine Kenneally
I suppose there are some advantages to this place,' he admitted. 'I bet it's fucking raining in Stirling.
~ Christopher Brookmyre
To be melancholy is to be self-haunted, and among the many reasons this is an unsatisfactory explanation for living inside a jam jar inside an aquarium, foremost among them is that there are no good stories to tell of your bleak time in a beautiful place, and no specter to blame for the fact that happiness, though it should have been inescapable, evaded you.
~ Heidi Julavits
She knows her place, she sure does know her place. There's something ghostlike about this girl . . .
~ Helen Oyeyemi
My arms are open. Come, my Lord, to me And rest upon my heart. It beats for you And sings in joyous welcome. What am I Except your resting place and your repose?
~ Helen Schucman
culpa y la salvación tienen que encontrarse en el mismo lugar. 6 Al entender esto te salvas.
~ Helen Schucman
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
~ Helen Slater
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
~ Henry Miller
You may specify by telephone," the voice droned on, "whether you wish his body interred by the Government or would you prefer a private burial place? The fee for Government burial is ten dollars.
~ Henry Slesar
The fundamental love that a man needs in his life, if he is to have steady spiritual ease is the love of place where he was a child, and first became aware of the light, and the objects which the light illumined ... It is the hurt child become man that seeks the wilderness, wherein to rebuild himself.
~ Henry Williamson
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
Establish your law in this walled place. Let nine men come to lift me into their prayer so that I may whisper with them: Blessed be the name of the glory of the kingdom forever and forever.
~ Leonard Cohen
In the hopelessness of every other thing, you make your place, you strengthen your presence, and I ask yo bow down before the lord of my life.
~ Leonard Cohen
You who pour mercy into hell, sole authority in the highest and the lowest worlds, let your anger disperse the mist in this aimless place, where even my sins fall short of the mark.
~ Leonard Cohen
In more metaphysical terms, it becomes a safe place in which one sleeps, dreams, and grows before emerging back into the world. Either way, it's a place not merely of shelter, but of incubation.
~ Lesley Hazleton
Each star had cost an effort. For each there had been planning, watching and anticipation. Each one recalled to me a place, a time, a season. Each one now has a personality. The stars, in short, had become my stars.
~ Leslie C. Peltier
He was in the right place. He was living his best life. How many other people in the multiverse could say that?
~ Lev Grossman