Caves Quotes

• The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Source, Turns

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

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• Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Running, Dark

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• It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Light, Years, Darkness

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• The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men

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• going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Labyrinth

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• A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Men

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• Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Never Forget, Walks

  Twitter post from Feb 04, 2012

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• Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Stars, Powerful

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.469, Bantam

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• If you are after truth, leave your cave!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ifs

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• Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

  Morris West

  Spiritual, Wall, Men

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Mystery, Womb

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• Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Stars, Welcome

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• one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

  Simone Weil

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.36, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Winter, Perfect

  Source: fpmt.org

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• If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Funny, Life, Girlfriend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cracks make caves collapse.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Cracks, Trifles, Collapse

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• Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Jobs, People, Don't Change

  "Robert Downey Jr. Speaks About His Addictions", www.vanityfair.com. October 2014.

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• One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

  Jose Marti

  Powerful, Army, Principles

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

  N.D. Wilson

  Darkness, Bones, Dies

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.139, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

  Thomas Gray

  Ocean, Dark, Rays

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

  Richard Gere

  Smart, Who I Am, Mind

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• If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Father, Home

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• When life caves in, you do not need reasons -- you need comfort. You do not need some answers -- you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation -- He comes to us with His presence.

  Bob Benson

  Jesus, Comfort, Doe

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• The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  John Milton

  Dark, Moon, Night

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86

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• Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

  John Hench

  Artist, Ideas, Pirate

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