Gayle Forman Quotes

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.

Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.

We see parts of each other, and we put them together. But if I want to see you in totality, you need to move away; we need space between us. Across the street, I can see all of you at once, but then I also see this huge vista of space surrounding you, coming in and compressing you.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

I'm in a world so wide. It makes me feel small sometimes.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.