Place

Famous quotes containing the word place:

    Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
    Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)

    Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
    Erica Jong (b. 1942)

    To have a place full of delights and nothing but delights, which one does not have to explain and defend to people who have ideas unsympathetic to one, it is to economize the forces which keep one from ending like the wisteria, from committing the unpardonable sin of doing things with difficulty.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)