Walls Quotes

1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors

You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are… — Paul Bowles
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. — Charles Bukowski
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls… — Algernon Blackwood
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the… — Jacqueline Woodson
That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers… — Orson Scott Card
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As… — Simon R. Green
We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we… — Erich Maria Remarque
Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world. — Goldie Hawn
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain,… — Daphne du Maurier
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals… — Michael Pollan
You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your… — Judith McNaught
So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls… — Julia Cameron
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in. — Corrie Ten Boom
Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's. — Jodi Picoult
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. — Che Guevara
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. — Jeanette Winterson
...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect,… — Gregory Maguire
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to… — Mervyn Peake
Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered. — Laura Whitcomb
She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when… — Cassandra Clare
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give.… — Brandon Sanderson
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the… — Francesca Lia Block
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass… — Kurt Vonnegut

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