335 Quotes About Place

And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.

Un luogo non è mai solo “quel” luogo: quel luogo siamo un po’ anche noi. In qualche modo, senza saperlo, ce lo portavamo dentro e un giorno, per caso, ci siamo arrivati.

None of these things is happening here. They are all happening far away, elsewhere.But they may as well be, Iris says. What does here mean anyway, I’d like to know. Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?

Deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.—Falling Into Place

A place without meaning is no place to be.

Auf diesem Platz hat schon mancher gedacht, hier wäre der Ort für ein tüchtiges Stück Leben und Freude, hier müßte etwas Lebendiges, Beglückendes wachsen können, hier müßten reife und gute Menschen ihre freudigen Gedanken denken und schöne und heitere Werke schaffen.

The best place to find joy is in God.

I am afraid of photographs. I am ashamed they will showwhere I really come from. From particles of light, a slowholding of breath as if I were filling with dirt & I am, becausewhere I come from is a place outside and it is not normal...

We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.