Labyrinths Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us.…
— Teresa of Avila
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I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness…
— Melvin B. Tolson
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We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That…
— T.H. White
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to…
— John Wesley Powell
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Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good…
— Romain Gary
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Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the "things" they like…
— Kenny Smith
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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
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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle…
— William Wordsworth
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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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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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The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.
— Mikhail Naimy
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She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way…
— Walter Benjamin
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…
— Roberto Bolano
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This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
— Neal Stephenson
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Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
— Bernhard Schlink
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We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact…
— Ben Okri
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our…
— E. M. Forster
Who Wrote These Labyrinths Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Labyrinths Quotes as follows: