Quotes About Walls Closing In

#1. I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

J.G. Ballard

#2. Whenever I hear Edith Piaf sing "Non, je ne regrette rien" - which is more often than I'd like, now that I'm at university - I can't help thinking, What the hell is she talking about? I regret pretty much everything.

David Nicholls

#3. ...I had an acute sense that the walls were closing in on "real" Christians... For the first time in my life, I felt like a persecuted minority.

J.D. Vance

#4. But when you're sad and the walls feel like they're closing in, I want you to remember that the only way to get out of the tunnel is through it.

Joelle Charbonneau

#5. She had been feeling it more and more lately. The walls were closing in around her. The emptiness, the thoughts hidden behind thick walls of work. The unfathomable futility of it all.

Joakim Zander

#6. But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. I'm sorry. Walls are closing in and I need to go.
Love you.

Abigail Roux

#8. The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

John Ruskin

#9. I had to smile to myself. In only a day or two, life seemed different from the way I'd always conceived of it. Complicated and very simple at the same time.

Carmen Laforet

#10. The cupboards start opening and closing by themselves, drawers slamming shut and the walls start to bleed. Slamming doors and smashing plates. Anna is acting like a common poltergeist. How embarrassing.

Kendare Blake

#11. Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.

Andrea Seigel

#12. Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It's eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that ... use that to navigate.

DJ Spooky

#13. Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#14. I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

Britney Spears