Labyrinth Quotes
140 quotes by 97 authors
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one…
— John Green
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Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known;…
— Joseph Campbell
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..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,…
— John Green
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Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the…
— Haruki Murakami
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There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece…
— Geraldine McCaughrean
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I was born into BolÃvar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
— John Green
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
— Barry Hannah
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A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
— Umberto Eco
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Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step…
— Salvador Dali
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.
— Ian Mcewan
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Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker,…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the…
— John Green
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After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows,…
— John Green
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She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen…
— John Green
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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...
— David Bowie
Who Wrote These Labyrinth Quotes
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