Cave Quotes

303 quotes by 263 authors

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this… — William Shakespeare
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. — H.G. Wells
The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the… — Gilbert Highet
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… — Charles Horton Cooley
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. — Ernest Hello
The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. — Stephen Malkmus
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,'… — Ron Rash
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… — Susan Sontag
There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it. — Frederick Lenz
Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and… — Frederick Lenz
Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was… — AnnaLynne McCord
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into… — Joy Williams
The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no… — Randy Wayne White
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
They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave. — Hank Snow
Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside… — Swami Muktananda
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by… — Theodore Sturgeon
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. — Stephen Gardiner
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and… — Aleksandar Hemon
Plato's cave is full of freaks. — Jack Johnson

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