Cave Quotes
303 quotes by 267 authors
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I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I…
— Nelson Mandela
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later,…
— Eileen Myles
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We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw…
— Bon Scott
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Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong…
— Herman Wouk
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When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a…
— Jack Handey
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I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a…
— Karen Russell
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And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear…
— Joseph Campbell
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for…
— Matt Taibbi
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Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not…
— Javed Akhtar
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Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
— Duane Chapman
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In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.
— Joe Sabia
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt…
— Richard Louv
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To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind…
— Hakim Bey
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Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
— Dodie Smith
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If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood…
— Temple Grandin
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
— Lance Morrow
Who Wrote These Cave Quotes
267 authors contributed a total of 303 Cave Quotes, led by these top contributors: