An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Richard H. Baker

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
Alfred de Vigny

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
Vaclav Havel

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.
Peter Cook

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.
Morton Gould

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
Henry James Sumner Maine

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
John Strachan

Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Kahlil Gibran

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
Dennis Banks

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
Max Beckmann

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
Bob Woodward

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field

We live within two environments: one is physical and surrounds us; the other is mental and is inside of us. Both can be designed to support your success.
Darren L. Johnson

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
Thomas Lynch