Top 33 Quotes About Labyrinths
#1. Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.
Paul Di Filippo
#2. Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.
Umberto Eco
#3. Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.
Edward O. Wilson
#4. That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words ... and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the exhausting immensity of their "possibles", in short their treachery, have something of quicksand about them.
Georges Bataille
#5. The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
Randy Wayne White
#6. What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.
Ian McEwan
#7. The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.
Mikhail Naimy
#8. And why wander in these labyrinths? Once more, for aesthetic reasons; because this present infinity, these "vertiginous symmetries," have their tragic beauty. The form is more important than the content.
Andre Maurois
#9. You think I don't know these ancient labyrinths? I know them all, in every city. I've known them for centuries."
"And you're looking your age," said Cassie.
Gabriella Poole
#10. For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...
Roberto Bolano
#11. I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.
Haruki Murakami
#12. This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
Neal Stephenson
#13. In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#14. Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.
Bernhard Schlink
#15. If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
Teresa Of Avila
#16. Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions.
Megan Chance
#17. Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low.
Lev Grossman
#18. You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
John Wesley Powell
#19. Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task ... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.
Sarah Fielding
#20. What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!
George Berkeley
#21. Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.
Jay-Z
#22. How beautiful the world is, and how ugly labyrinths are,' I said, relieved.
'How beautiful the world would be if there was a procedure for moving through labyrinths,' my master replied.
Umberto Eco
#23. A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.
Marc Laidlaw
#24. Disease Carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
Romain Gary
#25. I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future ... I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.
Jorge Luis Borges
#27. God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science.
Roberto Bolano
#28. Where do all the labyrinths of error in the world come from [the objector will continue], if not from the fact that when men follow their own minds they land in vanity and lies? So
John Calvin
#29. The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs ... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.
Russell Baker
#30. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.
Melvin B. Tolson
#31. You mentioned ... one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What ... is the other?"
"The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?
Neal Stephenson
#32. I think - the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.
Jorge Luis Borges
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