Caves Quotes - Page 18

• He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

  Anais Nin

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Fall

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

  Jack London

  Mother, Law, Mouths

  Jack London (2011). “Call of The Wild, White Fang”, p.207, Bantam Classics

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• In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

  Margaret Atwood

  Practice, Littles, Would Be

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Bluebeard's egg”

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• There's a cave, we go inside of ourselves because we want to know more, and we turn this one corner and we go, Oh my god - I didn't know that was in here. We can never go back to the way we were. It's like a horrible car accident - you're never the same after that. It's something that you'll think about every day for the rest of your life.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Car, Rest Of Your Life

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.

  Allison Maslan

  Life, Unknown Worlds, Choices

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• Christ hath arisen! O mountain peaks, attest-
  Witness, resounding glen and torrent wave!
  The immortal courage in the human breast
  Sprung from that victory-tell how oft the brave
  To camp midst rock and cave,
  Nerved by those words, their struggling faith have borne,
  Planting the cross on high above the clouds of morn!

  Felicia Hemans

  Easter, Struggle, Clouds

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

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• For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure.

  Gerard Way

  Pressure

  Source: collider.com

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• When you see a picture of a woolly mammoth on a cave wall, that's weirdly similar to a person's lasagna that they thought looked delicious.

  Derek Waters

  Wall, Lasagna, Persons

  Source: www.gq.com

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• People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves.

  Derek Waters

  Long, People, Has Beens

  Source: www.gq.com

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• One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different angles: Caliban in Shakespeare's day was probably viewed as a sort of comic, barbarian type, but into the 19th century there were productions where Caliban was the hero. He's a potential rapist of a minor. Is that a good thing? No, it is not. On the other hand, Prospero's got him cooped up in a cave and tortures him if he doesn't do what Prospero wants. Is that a good thing? No. Shakespeare doesn't let you off easy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hero, Hands, Looks

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• Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help beings as bodhisattvas. And Milarepa said that as long as space exists, so long will there be beings for you to help.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Space, Long, Helping

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• The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.

  Howard Rheingold

  Art, Moving, Order

  Source: medium.com

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• The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

  Malcolm X

  Jesus, Men, Europe

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• [My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Song, Anime, Men

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live in a Himalayan cave (I like electricity and a soft bed way too much), and I sure wasn't going to find enlightenment so easily.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Bed

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Hands, Two

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• "Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual pursuit to liberate ourselves (I'm a Buddhist at heart). During my teenage years, I imagined I'd end up going to India to become a yogi; study with the last living saints in a cave; give up all my worldly possessions; learn to levitate. And there's still part of me that can see myself "disappearing" for some years at an ashram somewhere.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teenage

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.

  Gerald Stern

  Believe, Artist, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.

  Rhys Darby

  White, Light, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.

  Viola Davis

  Mother, Two, Desperate Situations

  Source: aalbc.com

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• After working so long on something like this, it's great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn't just working in a cave by myself for no reason...

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Long, People, Reason

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

  Alex Haley

  Hatred, Mankind, Ifs

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

  Drew Magary

  Cockroaches, Way, Helping

  Source: postgradproblems.com

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• With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Would Be, Peers, Sitting

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• [My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Brother, Law, Grandfather

  Source: www.npr.org

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