Flight Quotes - Page 16

• Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

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• Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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• How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

  William Blake

  Cutting, Bird, Delight

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.51, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Art, Lying, Humor

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.398, Del Rey

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• The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

  Michael Cunningham

  Law, Secret, Body

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Bird, Flying

  "Les Miserables".

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• Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Imagination, Fancy

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• He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

  Richard Bach

  Ideas, Perfect, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 25, 2015

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• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Joy, Anxiety

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

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• The only victory over love is flight.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Love Is, Victory

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• It was a love of perpetual flight.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Perpetual

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “The General in His Labyrinth”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

  Immanuel Kant

  Plato, Cutting, Light

  Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer (1998). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Stars, Book

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.204, Library of America

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Men, Self

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.86, Canongate Books

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• It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

  Khaled Hosseini

  Spring, Snow, Bird

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.168, A&C Black

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• The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  World, Monastic Life, Should

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

  Amy Hempel

  Night, Sea, Land

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Fate, Voice

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• As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

  William Carlos Williams

  Reality, Air, Birds Wings

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

  Paul Theroux

  Pursuit, Equal

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

  Ayn Rand

  Steps, Restless, Substitutes

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.288, Hamilton Books

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• Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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• the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Giving Up, Believe

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