nowhere quotes

Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. He who is lying on the ground has nowhere to fall.

-Alan of Lille also known as  'Alanus de Insulis'
  Liber Parabolarum, ch.2, l.18.

If you don't know where you are, you're nowhere.

- Gilbert M Grosvenor
On the NGS's establishment of a $20-million foundation to fight ignorance of geography. Quoted in the Washington Post,14  Jan 1988.

A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go.What is Life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

- Sir (Henry) Rider Haggard
  Dying words of the  African chief Umbopa in King Solomon's Mines.  John Peter Turner in The North-West Mounted Police (1950) credited them to Crowfoot (c.1830^1890), chief of the Blackfoot Indians, who died in his teepee overlooking the Bow River,  Alberta, 25  Apr1890, and this attribution gained popular acceptance.

Quant a'   l'action, elle se passe en Pologne, c'est a'   dire, nulle part. The action takes place in Poland; in other words, nowhere.

- Alfred Jarry
  Ubu Roi, introduction.