The Tunnel Quotes

#1. A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything's going to be all right. you've made it past Dead Man's Curve and you're out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.

Haruki Murakami

#2. the word "silo" does not just refer to a physical structure or organization (such as a department). It can also be a state of mind. Silos exist in structures. But they exist in our minds and social groups too. Silos breed tribalism. But they can also go hand in hand with tunnel vision.

Gillian Tett

#3. No matter how far you are in a tunnel there will always be light at the end

Brenda Cas

#4. Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help.

Jay Leno

#5. You saw me."
Sara gasped and whirled around.Naked and aroused,nostrils flaring and fangs bared,Alexander towered over her,his mere presence forcing her back against the stone wall of the frigid tunnel.

Laura Wright

#6. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Curtis Jackson

#7. Sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of a tunnel. Sometimes you don't even know its there

Campbell Thompson

#8. People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

Felix Dennis

#9. Who was the mad bastard who taught you to drive?' he asked, holding on tight as they swerved in and out between cars on the three-lane motorway leading to Ekeberg tunnel. 'Self-taught,' Beate said.

Jo Nesbo

#10. a she-demon with a tunnel to Hades between her ever-scissoring legs? You had better staff a priest, my friend. A satanic priest." Lucian fell to the floor now, kicking and holding his stomach. "Stop!" he begged, sobbing. "Stop, no more.

Lucian Bane

#11. I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Joyce Brothers

#12. Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

Jewel

#13. The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

Eoin Colfer

#14. I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting the gag right.

Paul Merton

#15. I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

Ani DiFranco

#16. With the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Her light shines through the tunnel to my heart, clenching every pulsing beat with radiance and luminosity.

Renee Ericson

#18. When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

Robert H. Schuller

#19. In the distance, mongrel dogs were howling out the coyote portion of their ancestry. All the sounds of the night seemed to pass through a hollow tunnel of indefinite length.

Warren Eyster

#20. A bright light at the end of a tunnel can seem warm and inviting, or it can seem mysterious and terrifying. People of the world "all working on their arts and crafts" can seem like heaven or, if you're me, hell.

Mary Roach

#21. Our country is Germany
one country that should be reunited. We don't belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We're not cowards.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#22. There had to be light at the end of the tunnel and she prayed that she and her daughters would find it soon.

Valenciya Lyons

#23. Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#24. When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown ... and pray for an exit

Dan Brown

#25. Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. Nightmares appear many times before your dream.

J.R. Rim

#27. Our Di had, according to her myth, been hounded to death by the baying werewolves of the yellow press. Of course it was now plain I was one. Maybe even the worst of them. Some people claimed they had actually seen me baying. In the tunnel. With the blood of their angel on my hands.

Michael Moorcock

#28. She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.

Rick Riordan

#29. The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

Anita Desai

#30. What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

Tony Hoagland

#31. Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

John Hurt

#32. You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.

Richard Siken

#33. The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.

Frank Herbert

#34. Always believe and trust in yourself even when it looks like there is no light at the end of tunnel.

Kishore Bansal

#35. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#36. When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.

Nancy Reagan

#37. Then, as he chevies the ancient ones on their way, he opens a tunnel, a tunnel in time, back to when a certain FO star was younger, and without a planet.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#38. As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.

Jack Kerouac

#39. I can see light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train.

David Bowie

#40. It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Ayrton Senna

#41. Annabeth wanted to sob. She wanted someone, anyone to be here for her. She wanted Leo with his fire skills, or Jason with his lightning, or Hazel to collapse the tunnel. Most of all she wanted Percy. She always felt braver when Percy was with her.

Rick Riordan

#42. That he'd see the light and it'd still be in a tunnel.

Colum McCann

#43. I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of their aerodynamic speed-tunnel for testing and such for the athletes, which is a great advantage. But to be honest with you, I'd rather have a free car!

Apolo Ohno

#44. He had thought it through, even though following his own logic was a bit like tracking a shadow through a tunnel, he was never sure the idea he was tailing at the exit was the same idea he had been following at the entrance.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#45. Outside the door, a teller with a blue rosette chomps on an apple and asks for my number. She smiles a thank you and reveals a ghastly, gaping tunnel of masticated apple, edge with violent mauve lipstick seemingly applied by Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.

Maddie Grigg

#46. How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Christian Nestell Bovee

#47. Nothing can be as peaceful and endless as a long winter darkness, going on and on, like living in a tunnel where the dark sometimes deepens into night and sometimes eases to twilight, you're screened from everything, protected, even more alone than usual.

Tove Jansson

#48. I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you hate, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that you're close to finished.

Joss Whedon

#49. Believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you may be that light for someone else.

Kobi Yamada

#50. For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

John Zorn

#51. The only way to see the light at the end of the tunnel was to crawl through the mud in darkness.

Rachel Reiland

#52. I am like a prisoner who is trying to escape from jail by the wrong route. For all one knows, that door may stand open, although I continue to dig a tunnel with a teaspoon.

John Cheever

#53. The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions, and as long as Hamas is dedicated to those actions, they can expect a forceful Israeli reaction.

James Howard Kunstler

#54. You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

Jenny Offill

#55. Goodbye my friends. It is time to leave you. I see a tunnel of light a warm channel of attractive light calling me. I see Grace in the distant floating with her arms opening saying it is my time to pass on.

Annette J. Dunlea

#56. Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.

Ian Fleming

#57. When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

Stephen Mitchell

#58. Mr. Baggins was still officially their expert burglar and investigator. If he liked to risk a light, that was his affair. They would wait in the tunnel for his report.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#59. Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

Seth Godin

#60. His train could've gotten stuck in a tunnel or something. it's not unheard of. he's coming from ohio after all. people in ohio are late all the time.

David Levithan

#61. For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

Zora Neale Hurston

#62. We were tempted to have T-shirts made that said on the front: "We May Not Be Hip Enough To Drink Here, But We Are Rich Enough To Live Here," and on the back in larger letters: "Fuck Off Back To Clapham." Like giving the finger to the bridge-and-tunnel crowd.

Simon Majumdar

#63. There was nothing: just an empty, dark tunnel he was supposed to plod his way through, from "Birth" station to "Death" station. Those looking for faith had simply been trying to find the side branches in this line. But there were only two stations, and only tunnel connecting them.

Dmitry Glukhovsky

#64. The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#65. The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost employees. Soon after, the tunnel walls were color-coded by land and maps were posted at each intersection to help newcomers find their way.

David Koenig

#66. Wall, digging a tunnel under the border, or taking to the water to swim

Hester Vaizey

#67. Goosefeather appeared from the gorse tunnel and padded straight to his den. He didn't even stop to ask how Leopardfoot was. Bluefur pressed back the urge to rake his muzzle with her claws. He's supposed to be the Clan medicine cat, for StarClan's sake!

Erin Hunter

#68. Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Graham Greene

#69. The passageway smelled like decaying bodies and lavender. Her nose found it entertaining. The rocky tunnel ate their footsteps. Camin Barice wanted it to steal their voices. Then, she wouldn't have to listen to the aggravating filth spilling from her charges holes.

Auden Johnson

#70. I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

Stuart Pearce

#71. Roan looked at Paris and wondered where they would go from here and if there would be any light at the end of the tunnel before it collapsed on top of them. Too bad there was really no such thing as a happy ending.

Andrea Speed

#72. Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

Ian Botham

#73. If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

Barry Commoner

#74. There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

Margaret Smith

#75. I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

Lin Shaye

#76. I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn

Margaret Atwood

#77. A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety

Wogu Donald

#78. There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

Emily Blunt

#79. Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Ron Howard

#80. Is there a chance?
A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
A reason to fight?
Is there a chance you may change your mind?
Or are we ashes and wine?

A Fine Frenzy

#81. As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Lynn Coady

#82. I see light at the end of the tunnel.

Walt Whitman Rostow

#83. Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.

Noreena Hertz

#84. People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.

Vaclav Havel

#85. I would never see him again.
But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him.
Now I had only to trust in myself.

Samantha Shannon

#86. The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.

Marco Rubio

#87. Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

Emir Kusturica

#88. You think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's only some bugger with a torch bringing you more work.

David Brent

#89. The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.

John Dos Passos

#90. The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again.

Veronica Roth

#91. [The Lord] does go with us through our sufferings, and He awaits us as we emerge on the other side of the tunnel of testing - into the light of His glorious presence to live with Him forever!

Billy Graham

#92. If you see the light at the end
of the tunnel, you're looking
through binoculars the wrong
way

Josh Stern

#93. If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.

Kip Thorne

#94. It's easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you're making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don't yet see the light.

James Arthur Ray

#95. You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel

Thomas E. Sniegoski

#96. If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, the flickering bulb above my head wasn't it. The faces of my tormentors were no angels - they were hell's minions and I'd stepped into their purgatory.

Susan Illene

#97. I have always believed that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion; the illusion is the tunnel itself.

Sam Harris

#98. To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.

Joan Rivers

#99. Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.

Serena Smith

#100. Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Thomas Metzinger