Maps Quotes
625 quotes by 508 authors
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!
— Jeff Smith
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I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already…
— Reif Larsen
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The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.…
— Philip Pullman
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My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.
— Rachel Caine
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I wisely started with a map.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
— C.S. Lewis
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They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I’m…
— Sophie Kinsella
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I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And…
— David Levithan
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In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.
— William Shakespeare
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The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.
— Galt Niederhoffer
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...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages.…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you…
— Francesca Lia Block
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All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
— Michael Ondaatje
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She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or…
— James Patterson
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Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not…
— Reif Larsen
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She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Maps Quotes
508 authors contributed a total of 625 Maps Quotes, led by these top contributors: