Doors Quote by Henry Miller

“They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once did they opened the door that leads to the soul; never once did they…

— Henry Miller

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

— Ayn Rand

“the stench that greeted her inside instantly took her mind from the locked door. It was an overpowering odor, like a mixture of human…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

— Jodi Picoult

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the…

— Poppy Z. Brite

Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice…

— Willa Cather

“The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our…

— Kurt Vonnegut

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and Providence…

— John Milton

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at…

— Hugh Miller

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So…

— Conor Oberst