Nowhere To Turn Quotes

• When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

  Truman Capote

  Depression, Gas, Turns

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayers”, p.54, Vintage

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• Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Stress, People, Worry

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.34, Middleway Press

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Art, Motivation

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

  Lionel Richie

  Education, Turns

  Song: Love Will Conquer All, Album: Dancing on the Ceiling

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• The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Trying, Monsters

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• 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

  Moving, Dark, Forever

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

  Bob Dylan

  Journey, Limbo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.

  Mark Batterson

  Sometimes, Turns

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• Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Mean, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.41, Google Publishing

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• Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.

  Brittany Snow

  Suicidal, Love Is, Feelings

  "Brittany Snow and MTV Launch 'love is louder' after recent suicides" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. October 1, 2010.

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• The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Government, Land, Class

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