Nowhere Quotes

“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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, Women in Love

“I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.”
― Shaun Hick

“For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

“Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City...a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“What was wafting in the smoke of burning tires?
where had time
caught in the traffic jam
not reaching?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hung over with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“Nowhere and oblivion were completely different things/places to Richard Stein. For
him, oblivion is when something goes into nothing and nowhere is the place where
something can come out of nothing.”
― Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger

“Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

“I will be everywhere you look but nowhere to be found and that will be my revenge.”
― Aurora Raine

“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

“You appear from nowhere,
you disappear into nowhere,
on the way you are madly running,
never enjoying what is now & here,
let whatever comes - come,
let whatever goes - go,
Don't Demand...Don't Regret...Don't Cling...Don't Control

Simply flow...let it go”
― Himanshu Sharma (Shunyo)

“Nowhere like nothing requires for its affirmation a witness which it cannot supply by its own definition.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“I realised how terrible it must be to be at home everywhere for it means to be at home nowhere!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“I have nowhere to return to. It's like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that's alien to me and doesn't belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future is doubtful, everything yet to come is barely sketched and uncerain, like a mirage that can be destroyed by the slightest twitch of the air. That's what was going through my mind as we sat there in silence. It was better than a conversation.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“کیهان همه چیز را در بر می گیرد. اگر چیزی بیرون از کیهان وجود داشته باشد می توانیم بگوییم که کیهان در جایی است. اما چیزی نیست که بیرون از کیهان باشد. بنابراین کیهان اصلاً در جایی نیست، ناکجاست.”
― Daniel Kolak, پرسیدن مهم‌تر از پاسخ دادن است

“کیهانی که در ناکجاست، هیچ وقت هم پدید نمی آید.”
― Daniel Kolak, پرسیدن مهم‌تر از پاسخ دادن است

“Nowhere can be really interesting
if I don't attend it.”
― Augusto Branco

“Is President Trump going to be held accountable or is it just another political show that leads nowhere?”
― Steven Magee

“In the countryside in the middle of nowhere, no one can hear your screams!”
― Steven Magee

“My spirits are like that of a tramp-
I belong to nowhere!
I am sure I would be in love forever
With this life of adventure!”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, the lost mint taste

“Weak-minded people are willing to catch any random train that’s going to ‘somewhere’ because going somewhere is easier than having to sit down and determine a ‘somewhere.’ But what they fail to recognize is that ‘nowhere’ is often a better choice than a ‘somewhere’ that the train probably hasn’t determined anyway.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful