Architecture Quote by Paul Willems

“The main hall of the palace was an intimidating place when empty, because it had been designed for exactly that purpose.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The labyrinths that time creates vanish. (Only the desert remains.) The heart, fountain of desire, vanishes. (Only the desert remains.) The illusion of dawn…

— Federico García Lorca

“what did you think you were doing, then, when you went up through one door and down through another, turning this way and that,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“But I do have a real and significant palace. It stands on yonder hills. I do not know how it compares to the other…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small,…

— John Green

“This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“But hitherto she had been like some young captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls she takes for the actual world.…

— Edith Wharton

“It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.' 'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid…

— Iain Banks

“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?”

— John Green

“Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one’s magical resources when they were running low.”

— Lev Grossman

“—Sooner or later the mind grasps at a thought and follows it into the labyrinth, one thought branching into another. Then the labyrinth caves…

— Denis Johnson

“Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.”

— John Webster