He was alone in the doorway, digging the street…

“Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).”

— Jack Kerouac

At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.

— Frederick Lenz

Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

— Dottie Walters

It's the simplest thing, a kiss. It's the doorway to everything else, you know? Promise, hope, a future with someone.

— Anonymous

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

— Martha Beck

“Lord child you ain't nothing but a doorway. How many haints you count at your heels?”

— Cynthia Bond

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

— Mark Frost

“The volume exploded when Travis appeared in a doorway across the room. He made his entrance, shirtless, relaxed and unaffected. He strolled into the…

— Jamie McGuire

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was…

— Howard Carter

“Meditation can be a doorway to mindfulness.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most…

— Dennis Quaid

“I caught a bob of Rhys's throat as we cleared the final steps to the open doorway. ... And though his face was calm,…

— Sarah J. Maas

She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b)…

— Maureen Johnson

“I love you,” he says as he meets me in the doorway. “Just because you say it doesn’t make it true, you know.”

— Andrea Randall

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

— Barbara Kingsolver