Fly Away Quotes

• There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Joy, Bird

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.64

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• Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life Is, Crosses, Elsewhere

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.

  Rumi

  Wings, Long, Wings Of Love

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• My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind?

  Julia Golding

  Dream, Should, Behinds

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• I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

  Stephen King

  Bird, Prison Life, Redemption

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

  Martial

  Wings, Joy

  "Epigrams". Book I. 16. 8, c. 80-104 AD.

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• There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Mean, Night

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

  Plato

  Wise, Plato, Heaven

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.8095, Catholic Way Publishing

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• It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Flying, Soul, Sound

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.213, Penguin

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• I want to get away, I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Want, Yeah, Get Away

  Song: Fly Away

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• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Bird, Savages

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• One bright morning when my work is over I will fly away home.

  Bob Marley

  Morning, Home

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• While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

  Rumi

  Bird, Cages, Spirit

  Rumi (2012). “Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit”, p.214, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.

  Robert Ruark

  Boys, One Day, Wake Up

  Robert Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and The Boy”

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• Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Forever, Lines

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• I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...

  Nelly Furtado

  Bird

  Song: I'm Like a Bird, Album: Whoa Nelly!

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• Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

  Emme

  Home, Butterfly, Perfect

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• Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

  Elton John

  Sweet, Butterfly, Bye

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Enjoy, Folly

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• Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

  Horace

  May, Too Much, Hours

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• The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.

  Bob Hope

  Bombers, Bombs, Hell

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• Come away, come away, death,
  And in sad cypres let me be laid;
  Fly away, fly away, breath;
  I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

  William Shakespeare

  Cypresses, Maids, Fairness

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Creative, Bird, Trying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.374, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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