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Quotes About Somewhere

that somewhere from amidst the welter of sound there will dart up, like a bird, a single authentic note of immortal longing.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Although some we rarely see, the thought of them is comforting, like the pleasure of knowing there is a mooring somewhere, if occasionally we want to sail into port.
~ Charles Chaplin
Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Even our challenges here have made our lives richer and deepened our ability to feel. Our family has been very lucky to live somewhere beautiful.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
On and on we go, for the mental consciousness labours under the illusion that there is somewhere to go to, a goal to consciousness. Whereas of course there is no goal. Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
~ D. H. Lawrence
That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
~ D.H. Lawrence
A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse. Energyless, he felt at times he was dead, really dead.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
~ Walker Percy
I've been hurt, I imagine we all have, and I think somewhere in that pain we convince ourselves that if we don't open up and love again, we don't have to hurt again
~ Charles Martin
You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
~ Ernst Zundel
let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything!
~ William Gibson
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
~ Jasper Fforde
Be confident, he advised me. 'Be confident even in your mistakes. In Allah there is no wrong road. There is only the road you must travel' 'And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
~ Tom Petty
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.
~ Chuck Barris
Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere
~ Joan Didion
We study, said Serbitar. And we train, and we plant flowers and raise horses. Our time is well occupied, I can assure you. No wonder you want to go away and die somewhere, said Rek with feeling.
~ David Gemmell
I know people always talk about living in the middle of nowhere—there's always another place (some city, some foreign country) they'd rather be. But it's moments like this that I feel like I live in the middle of somewhere. My somewhere.
~ David Levithan
And then I heard the most beautiful sound of my life. Somewhere nearby, a cat let out an angry, hissing scream.
~ Jim Butcher
Par," said Wilfred Wimp, "what's a alleybi? A marble?" "No, my lad," said Grodman, "it means being somewhere else when you're supposed to be somewhere." "Ah, playing truant," said Wilfred self-consciously; his schoolmaster had often proved an alibi against him. "Then Denzil will be hanged.
~ Israel Zangwill
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
~ James Thurber
Go sell your crazy somewhere else...we are all stocked up here.
~ Unknown
I heard Molly say, 'Our Mouse is a hundred miles away.' But I wasn't as far away as that; I was in a dimly lit street somewhere in Hampstead.
~ Dodie Smith
Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.
~ Lawrence Durrell