Cave Quotes

303 quotes by 264 authors

Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… — Annie Dillard
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go...back… — Thomas Wolfe
Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It… — George MacDonald
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons. — Brandon Mull
Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. — Anne Sexton
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and… — Charles Bukowski
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where… — Arthur Golden
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless… — Jack London
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself… — Margaret Atwood
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be… — Marian Keyes
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles… — Jennifer Donnelly
They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been… — Amy Tan
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, sheâ€™d left it in… — Karen Chance
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. — Joseph Campbell
I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was. — Richelle Mead
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all.… — S.M. Stirling
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the… — Ayn Rand

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