Caves Quotes
360 Caves quotes by 299 unique authors
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Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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...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
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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
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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
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In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive.…
— Temple Grandin
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And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE…
— Dave Eggers
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and…
— Khalil Gibran
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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
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Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in…
— Regina Doman
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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
— Anne Sexton
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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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
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down…
— Anais Nin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And…
— Thomas Gray
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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
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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
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My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in…
— Karen Chance
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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
— Joseph Campbell
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in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
— Nick Bantock
Who Wrote These Caves Quotes
299 authors contributed a total of 360 Caves Quotes, led by these top contributors: