Behinds Quote by Daniel Keyes

“the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes”

— Daniel Keyes

“God is dead;1 but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here's something else I'd like your opinion about," I said. "If he went back underground and sat down again in the same spot, wouldn't…

— Plato

“Between you and me, Plato was a hack. All that crap about higher forms and caves? He was drunk when he wrote it. I…

— Gene Doucette

“that the body of light come forth from the body of fire And that your eyes come to the surface from the deep wherein…

— Ezra Pound

“He would not look away. Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast – absence…

— Eowyn Ivey

“His own men, those who would attack in the morning, knelt on the earth, faces hidden behind one hand, in an agonizing tunnel of…

— Sebastian Faulks

“On the walls of the cave, only the shadows are the truth”

— The Allegory of the Cave Plato

“The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible…

— Paul Leppin

“Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its…

— Mark Twain

“Yet Theo had become engrossed in his own tale, transporting himself back to the night of which he spoke. In the distance, he could…

— A. H. Septimius

“When darkness falls upon you, turn your face to the sun and your shadows will fall behind you.”

— Daniel Wicomb