Essays Quote by Jorge Luis Borges Download Open image ““I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.”” — Jorge Luis Borges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essays Heroes Jorge-luis-borges Labyrinths
“The only way to get through this whole labyrinth thing, like most other crappy things, was to just get through it.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nothing scared me more than the dark. I liked to see what was coming, and darkness was a place where things could hide.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“He said, 'And now, we are in the labyrinth where we have been, except you can see it more clearly.” — N.J. Campbell Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how someone will react in a frightening situation until you're in it. Most would call me a monster, but even… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
“she said, "That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape- the world or the end… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are limits to the dimension of fear. Until one meets the unknown. Then terror has no boundaries, no walls to keep it contained.” — Carol Hedges Copy Share Image
“When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Unless you expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is hidden and thickly tangled.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image