Labyrinthine Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
— Robert Browning
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He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses…
— Michel de Certeau
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The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a…
— Roger Scruton
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of…
— Adam Zagajewski
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable…
— Rob Brezsny
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But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and…
— Erica Jong
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I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.
— Annie Dillard
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Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I…
— Alberto Manguel
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This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within…
— Primo Levi
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And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers…
— Philip Roth
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and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in…
— Franz Kafka
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Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
— Sophie Hannah
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My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11,…
— David Remnick
Who Wrote These Labyrinthine Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Labyrinthine Quotes as follows: