Caves Quotes · Page 6

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

— Ram Dass

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

— Ernest Hello

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

— Kenneth Oppel

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

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

— Plato

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

— Joe Teti

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

— John Milton

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

— David Letterman

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go…

— Ron Rash

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a…

— Gilbert Highet

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of…

— Terry Pratchett

Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we…

— Libba Bray

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems…

— Ray Bradbury

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the…

— Joy Williams

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the…

— Jason Silva

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands…

— David Massengill

When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's…

— Libba Bray

Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by…

— Charles Dickens

I think there's a whole book being written about it in the UK. I don't know if you can get it here.…

— Neil Marshall

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse…

— Jack Handey

But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten…

— Jean M. Auel

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back…

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Donald Rumsfeld

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

— Aimee Bender

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

— Herman Melville

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

— Anne Sexton

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

— Anonymous

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

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

— Phil Anselmo

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

— Fernando Botero

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— John Ashbery

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

— John Berger

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

— Claire Cameron

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

— Duane Chapman

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

— Frederick Lenz

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized.

— John Stephens