Quotes about Flight

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

Activity - Avoidance - Danger - Evasion - Facts - Fear - Flight - Psychology

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Flight - Future - Hope - Human - Loss - Mindset - Objectification - Pleasure - Present - Satisfaction

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Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician, Philosopher

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.

Adventure - Flight - Safety - Spirits - Unattainable - Worship

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Affairs - Age - Discovery - Flight - Sorry - Universe

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Poet, Journalist, Aviator

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

Airport - Earth - Flight - Oblivion - Perfection - Pilot - Radio - Sea

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Friedrich Schiller

Philosopher, Dramatist, Poet

The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.

Actions - Earth - Empires - Flight - Force - Heavens - Imagination - Journey - Secrets

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Konrad Lorenz

Statesman, Scientist, Zoologist

I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!

Belief - Flight - Hate - Help - Interest - People - Pilot - Realization

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Entertainer, Psychologist, Psychiatrist

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

Airplane - Farming - Flight - Leadership - Life - Nothing - Quiet - Reaching - Relaxing - Simple - Sleeping

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Ability - Flight - Ignorance - Mediocrity - Routine

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion. The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might.

Companion - Flight - Human - Interest - Life - Loyalty - Meaning - Persuasion - Pride

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Vladimir Nabokov

Leader, Novelist, Novelist

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

Creativity - Flight - Giving - Imagination - Insanity - Inspiration - Thinking

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.

Airplane - Boredom - Flight - Morals - Scuba diving - Travel

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Hesiod

Politician, Poet, Poet

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Age - Doing - Flight - Marriage - Old - Wedding - Wishing - Woman

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Blessing - Doing - Flight - Friendship - Learning - Love - Sweet - Willing

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Poet, Journalist, Aviator

The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

Airport - Bank - Earth - Engineering - Flight - Friendliness - Gardening - Jobs - Joy - Leaving - Miracle - Pilot - Songs - Storm

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Anais Nin

Writer

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.

Actions - Anxiety - Discouragement - Effort - Flight - Joy - Making - Pleasure - Possibility - Remembering - Solitude - Weariness - World

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Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

Flight

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Bravery - Cowardice - Death - Defiance - Flight - Follower - Vanity

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Sun Tzu

Musician, Philosopher, Strategist

Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

Army - Art - Expose - Fault - Flight - War

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.

Devotion - Diligence - Enough - Flight - Flying - Pilot - Sky - Studying

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