Quotes About Mazes

#1. To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

Ander Monson

#2. The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;
Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

Joseph Addison

#3. I have thrust myself into this maze,
Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

William Shakespeare

#4. We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#6. As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

Luke Jermay

#7. He was inside her, not just her soaked pussy, but in all the complex turbulent and dark mazes that were Marguerite. He wanted to be there forever, wanted to keep her safe and unafraid, give her pleasure and happiness.

Joey W. Hill

#8. Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Robert E. Howard

#9. But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Jakob Dylan

#10. If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

James Dashner

#11. Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Cyril Connolly

#13. Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

Mickey Cohen

#14. I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Lewis H. Lapham

#15. Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#16. If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

Honore De Balzac

#17. Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. What mazes there are in this world.

Anthony Doerr

#19. It is remarkable, when you consider it, all the complicated worlds we construct to avoid anything that might disturb us or cause us pain. The bulwarks and baffles we build up, the moats and the mazes.

Ben H. Winters

#20. Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

#21. Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it is true, absence, change of place and of face, might probably have destroyed the illusion in her instance as it has done in many others.

Walter Scott

#22. For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

Peter Ackroyd

#23. It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

Imre Lakatos

#24. The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.

Haruki Murakami

#25. And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

Heinrich Heine

#26. 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

#27. Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

John Milton

#28. A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

Robert Jordan

#29. It's a lot easier to complete a maze if you start at the end.

Dale Watson

#30. In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

John Milton

#31. Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others.

E. M. Forster

#32. Man forges his own history, imposing on nature the errors of his free will. If hatred and greed drag man down among bloody mazes, the struggle is joined between perverted freedoms and just freedoms.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#33. I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

Emile Hirsch

#34. Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature.

Washington Irving

#35. Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.

Corey Ann Haydu

#36. Life is a maze from which we never escape. Every decision takes us in a different direction and every time we turn one way we could just as easily have turned the other.

Chloe Thurlow

#37. I am the Walker and the Maze.

Catherynne M Valente

#38. That's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself. (p. 717)

Wally Lamb

#39. If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

Ramana Maharshi

#40. Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Adam Gopnik

#41. Been through mad different phases like mazes now I'm trynna find my way..

Hector L. Rodriguez

#42. The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

Lord Chesterfield

#43. The sins after the Devil's heart are the intricacies of spiritual pride, the mazes of self-deception, and the subtle mockeries of hypocrisy where mask hides behind mask behind mask and reality is lost altogether.

Alan W. Watts

#44. If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

Mikhail Naimy

#45. Since boyhood, the sandy coast of Southern California with its mazes of rocky crags towering high above the Pacific had been Gower Champion's refuge for reflection.

John Anthony Gilvey

#46. A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

#47. Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

Ameen Rihani

#48. The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

Anne Sexton

#49. It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge
into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

Soren Kierkegaard