Philosophy Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made up of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel,…

— Sebastian Barry

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?”

— David Burr Gerrard

“Better to believe that sane people were sane and crazy people were crazy and you could put the two types of people on opposite…

— Claire Messud

“Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls;…

— Lauren Oliver

“Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls;…

— Lauren Oliver

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.”

— Joyce Meyer

“As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by…

— Ann Radcliffe

“You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don’t know whether…

— Lauren Oliver

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke