Quotes About Doorways

#1. The Boy should watch where he's going," she
said.
"Rachel should not manifest in doorways," I
replied.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!

Charles Dickens

#3. When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

A.A. Milne

#4. I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

Liu Xiaobo

#5. Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she'd not noticed it until now.

Clive Barker

#6. Shadowy figures watched them from doorways, as shadowy figures are wont to fucking do.

Jesse Bullington

#7. It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person and hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

Carson McCullers

#8. As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

#9. Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

Sam Horn

#10. The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.

Frederick Lenz

#11. To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things ...

Paula Rego

#12. The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God.

Rumi

#13. Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach
the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to
the hidden, spiritual things of life.

Harold Klemp

#14. The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Stanislaw Lem

#16. If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways.

Esther M. Friesner

#17. Sinking invalids blew kisses to him from windows. Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops. Tubas crumped. Here and there a person fell and was trampled to death.

Joseph Heller

#18. A dingily bilious sun was seeping through a tent of black clouds. Passersby, spitefully elbowing elbows, were rushing along the pavement. People thronging the doorways of shops tried to pummel their way through and stuck fast, their faces flushed with spite and fury, their teeth bared.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#19. [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

Dorothy Parker

#20. We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.

Oscar Romero

#21. Some paths, some doorways, some people were not to be yours, though the slightest difference in the rippling of time might have made it so.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#22. We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

Charlton Heston

#23. The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

Terence McKenna

#24. We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened." There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways.

Stephen King

#25. In a nobler age one could have answered such impertinence by jostling his lordship as he stood holding open the door, so that he would have been obliged to demand a meeting. Or did one, even in that age, refrain from jostling people in doorways when a lady was present? Before

Georgette Heyer

#26. When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#27. I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

Andy Summers

#28. Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

Frederick Lenz

#29. Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

Robert Hunter

#30. The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifer's.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#31. I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

Ice Cube

#32. Foras Road has a sordid reputation ( ... ) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

Tahir Shah

#33. I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through.

Louise Hay

#34. He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

Eloisa James

#35. I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.

Tom Robbins

#36. Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

Dottie Walters

#37. Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

Marge Piercy

#39. At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.

Frederick Lenz

#40. Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

Frida Kahlo

#41. As if some faces could be doorways in
To life one has an image of
But never sees. The vista was
A strange and beautiful
Release

Herbert Mason

#42. Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Bob Dylan

#43. His gloom seeped through the house, oozing under doorways like some noxious gas, so that all of them became infected by it.

J.K. Rowling

#44. External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

Ram Dass

#45. Dreams are doorways into other dimensions that you forget how to open once you're awake.

R.M. ArceJaeger

#46. I have lived in other cities but been inside of only one. I once wore all the windows of Chicago and all its doorways on a key ring. Salons, mansions, alleys, courtrooms, depots, factories, hotels, police cells, the lake front, the rooftops and the sidewalks were my haberdashery.

Ben Hecht

#47. Books are boring," James said as he wrote.
"They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

Laura Whitcomb

#48. We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know.

Eleanor Morse

#49. It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

Alexander Woollcott

#50. Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters.
But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

Laini Taylor

#51. Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

Bruno Schulz

#52. Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives ... it's the doorway 2 learning.

Wynton Marsalis

#53. As if on cue, Fiona appeared in another of the ballroom's multiple doorways. 'Beatrice! Oliver! How many times have I told you no skating in the house? I just had these floors refinished.'
'So that's why it's extra slippery today,' mused Oliver. 'Cool.

Jennifer Sturman

#54. Decisions are the doorway to change.

Tony Robbins

#55. There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.

Frederick Lenz

#56. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#57. They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#58. Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

Dottie Walters

#59. Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds skimming across bricks trying to fly away. Little bird, what are you thinking? You come from a can.

Cath Crowley

#60. In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.

Frederick Lenz

#61. Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

Deepak Chopra

#62. Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.

Sasha Graham

#63. An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

James Russell Lowell

#64. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

Mordecai Ham

#65. A few letter-writers had taken refuge in doorways, their old voiceprinters wrapped in sheets of clear plastic, evidence that the written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here.

William Gibson

#66. Meditation is a doorway to the soul.

James Van Praagh

#67. What is easily the most dangerous spot cats choose for sleeping? Beneath our feet-sprawled out in hallways or in doorways, tails predictably extended just to be stepped on.

Arnold Hano

#68. Portals and doorways are common symbolic constructs that represent transformative rites of passage. To look for a literal portal would be like trying to locate the actual Gates of Heaven.

Dan Brown

#69. Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.

Peter Shaffer

#70. You are the doorway to the infinite.

Adyashanti

#71. In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

Itzhak Perlman

#72. Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future
moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

Martha Beck

#73. Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.

Michael Harner

#74. You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

Richard Bach

#75. But the intimacy, the smallness, also made me feel shut out; and I found myself hurrying past the inviting little doorways with my head down, very aware of all the convivial Sunday-morning lives unrolling around me in private.

Donna Tartt

#76. Larry said that Michelangelo was a poof, so I wondered why he'd sculpted a guy with a really tiny cock. But I know when you go to old houses, the doorways are much smaller, 'cause people were shorter then, so maybe cocks were smaller too. It makes me glad I wasn't born a few centuries ago.

J.L. Merrow

#77. Don't settle, Genevieve. Don't let strangers grope you on dance floors. Don't allow college boys to fondle you in doorways. Don't waver in uncertainty about your own desires....Know what you want. Endeavor to seize it, and keep it when you do.

Juliette Cross

#78. Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.

Patricia A. McKillip

#79. I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.

Janet Fitch

#80. Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

George G. Ritchie

#81. Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway.

Josh Billings

#82. You control the doorway to your mind.

Joel Osteen

#83. I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Linda Ronstadt

#84. God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

Martin Laird

#85. Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#86. The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

Barbara De Angelis

#87. Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in the way I occupy myself when I am well ... completely - to the edge of both my house and body. No one notices, when they walk by, that I am brimming in the doorways.

William H Gass

#88. It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren't good, you might discover something in a photograph that is the key. The very doorway to your own interest.

Joel Meyerowitz

#89. Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways.

Brandon Mull

#90. The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.

C.P. Cavafy

#91. A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

George Barr McCutcheon

#92. Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

Shaun McNiff

#93. Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

Andy Partridge

#94. Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Deepak Chopra

#95. Mistakes are the doorway to discovery.

Sam Horn

#96. Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#97. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Roger Bacon

#98. Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

Geneen Roth

#99. People need doorways to explore universal religious and ethical ideas.

Mitch Horowitz

#100. Not quite a room, Jeevan thought now, looking around the stage. It was too transitory, all those doorways and dark spaces between wings, the missing ceiling. It was more like a terminal, he thought, a train station or an airport, everyone passing quickly through.

Emily St. John Mandel