Dystopian fiction Quote by Quoleena Sbrocca

“We built walls, and built them high. The walls would keep the gentiles and their terrifying world far away. The walls would protect us…

— Eishes Chayil

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.”

— Manal al-Sharif

“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”

— Eishes Chayil

“for years, maybe for my whole life, it felt as though there was a brick wall down the middle of everything. Standing outside those…

— Liz Murray

“Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.”

— Michael J. Sandel

“Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For we all must build our worlds around us, bravely or dreamily, as long as we can we shelter ourselves from the rain, walling…

— William T. Vollmann

“Life is better without the walls, everyone agrees. Still, sometimes I'm afraid of the outside world, and every so often in my private thoughts…

— Patrick Carman