Elsewhere Quotes
506 quotes by 451 authors
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I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery.…
— Marguerite Duras
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Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
— Eric Berne
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You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.
— A. S. Byatt
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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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People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
— Alice Munro
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Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of…
— Dean Young
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I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look…
— Sarah Dessen
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Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was…
— Hermann Hesse
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Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
— Lois Lowry
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Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious…
— Adrienne Rich
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No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to reason that at…
— Tammara Webber
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I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing…
— Roland Barthes
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True life is elsewhere
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I signed on for the role of ‘boyfriend,’ not ‘conscience.’ If you want wholesome and ethical, you’ll have to look elsewhere. But I promise that…
— Rachel Vincent
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The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
— Pat Conroy
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No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that…
— Marianne Williamson
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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient…
— Dante Alighieri
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It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is…
— Noam Chomsky
Who Wrote These Elsewhere Quotes
451 authors contributed a total of 506 Elsewhere Quotes, led by these top contributors: