Caves Quotes · Page 4

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

— John Ashbery

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

— William Shakespeare

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led,…

— Herman Melville

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

— Aimee Bender

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.

— Donald Rumsfeld

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a…

— Karl Pilkington

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.

— Anonymous

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

— Anne Sexton

In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In…

— Francesco Clemente

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to…

— Rumi

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino…

— Barbara Hurd

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian…

— Oswald Chambers

What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And…

— Dana Gould

Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and…

— Theodore Roethke

The left are not bipartisan. Somebody give me an example of left-wing bipartisanship. They don't even define it the way we do.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that…

— Jack London

Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the…

— Robert Ruark

Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated…

— Thomas Hobbes

Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans…

— Ibn Khaldun

People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment.…

— Martin Amis

I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all…

— John Muir

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper…

— David Seaman

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

— John Milton

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.

— Kenneth Oppel

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of…

— David Letterman

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

— John Milton

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

— Joe Teti

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

— Plato

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

— Isaac D'Israeli

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

— Ernest Hello

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

— Ram Dass

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

— John Milton

That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but…

— Ian Astbury

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats…

— Karen Russell

I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.”

— Cuthbert Soup

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

— Samuel Beckett