Place Quotes

“I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new.”
― Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

“Gladly, I would give you my heart, but why take a broken one when you could have another one. After me, you can always return to a warm place where the sun waits for you. Still, I cannot return to a place that would no longer exist, a place where I had your love, a place where I treasured it but never held it too tightly so that you never lose the freedom so essential to you, a place where only fleeting moments is all we had. I am afraid of the darkness after you.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“Because I claim to know where I am at does not mean that I am at the place that I claim to be. For quite frequently the 'claim' represents my attempt to be what I am not, while the 'place' represents my attempts to not be what I am.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is a place inside you, away from everything that created you and everything that you created. In that place, you will probably find yourself.”
― Akshay Vasu, The wrecked windows: The whispers of the beautiful hearts

“We used to watch films together like that. And he would touch my hair in that exact way, distractedly. I found his distraction comforting. In a way i wanted to live inside it, as if it was a place of it's own, where he had never noticed I had entered.”
― Sally Rooney, Two Stories

“We're running in a place
Where only walking is allowed.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

“No place works any different than any other place, really, beyond mere details. The universal human laws--need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain--are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. What a powerful thing to know: that one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other--perhaps muted, exaggerated, or distorted, yes, but there nonetheless, and thus a source of comfort.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Nature: We all have a place in nature.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“...places leave their mark in the same way that a human being can touch us. We have to make our peace with place, with the locations where we have spent time. We consider how we've been affected by being present in a certain spot - and how the place itself is changed by what has come to pass. You only have to visit a battlefield long after a war has ended, to know that places are never quite the same following a tragedy.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon

“He does not so much inhabit this landscape as become inhabited by it. Its rivers flow through his veins, its branches toss in his hair, its planets burn through the bone of his forehead and irradiate his skull, its volcanoes stir and grumble in his throat”
― Gerald Moore

“I had hoped that the heart of reality might be of such a kind that we can best symbolize it as a place; instead, I found it to be a person.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“No matter the effort or the price, no matter how hard one tries to escape the time or the place, ultimately nobody can escape love - or fate!”
― Irene Doura-Kavadia

“The pavement was pockmarked by a light drizzle, and the city looked in its element. The sultriness that other European capitals wore so well didn't suit London.”
― Sabina Manea, Murder in Hampstead: a classic whodunnit in a contemporary setting

“Know your place. This one simple sentence will abundantly help you to avoid conflicts, embarrassment, and especially avoid loss of self-respect.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Victories are galore where faith is in place.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“Zaten saatle insanı birbirinden pek ayırmazdı. Sık sık, ''Cenab-ı Hak insanı kendi sureti üzerine yarattı; insan da saati kendine benzer icat etti...'' derdi. Bu fikri çok defa şöyle tamamlardı: ''İnsan saatin arkasını bırakmamalıdır. Nasıl ki, Allah insanı bırakırsa her şey mahvolur!'' Saat hakkındaki düşünceleri bazen daha derinleşirdi: ''Saatin kendisi mekan, yürüyüşü zaman, ayarı insandır... Bu da gösterir ki, zaman ve mekan, insanla mevcuttur!”
― Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

“...ghettoside. ... It was both a place and a predicament....”
― Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

“I set out this evening to learn something about the district, to study the roads and paths, and to get the hang of it, the feel of the land. It's no use rushing to ask questions when you're ignorant of the place, especially a place like this. As I see it, coming here as a stranger, this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've to to study the other.”
― E.C.R. Lorac, Fell Murder

“People can pray at any place.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“La démocratie construit un espace et repose sur un lieu, elle n'est même que cela.”
― Antoine Garapon, Le numérique contre le politique

“I can sit in my home and lift up a prayer from which no place or person on the planet is shielded.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Describe your street. Describe another street. Compare. Make an inventory of your pockets, of your bag. Ask yourself about the provenance, the use, what will become of each of the objects you take out. Question your tea spoons. What is there under your wallpaper? How many movements does it take to dial a phone number? Why? Why don’t you find cigarettes in grocery stores? Why not?”
― Georges Perec, Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books

“Nature is seamless because nothing questions its place. Therefore everything is in place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t think that we’re created to question what we supposed to do. I think that we’re created to question what will happen if we don’t do what we’re supposed to do.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is damaging to tie yourself. To a country and a home. Sooner or later both will fuck you up.”
― Daša Drndić, EEG

“Where is our place in this universe, where dead stars shine a light upon us, light that was emitted before all of this here was build?”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Days

“And so here - after then, and after that - we are”
― John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

“It is a fact seldom observed that after a certain age a single man is a creature no one has a place for”
― Andrew Holleran, The Kingdom of Sand

“I know how it feels to be someplace you no longer belong, or to no longer be in the place you do belong, because that place has ceased to exist. I know what it’s like to be robbed of your foundation walls, how difficult it becomes to stand firm or stand at all, to provide others with protection. It’s impossible to imagine; it must be experienced, although best avoided. I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.”
― Hans von Trotha, Pollaks Arm

“I was at the precipice. I knew it. So, then the issue was simply finding out where this journey was to take place. I needed a setting my main character would thrive in, a place that had a quality all its own. That's when it occurred to me, to use a painting.”
― Kristina Smeriglio, Falling Into Fire