Chamber Quotes - Page 3

• Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  "Readers recommend: songs about books" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

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• She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

  Tosca Lee

  Pain, Heart, Joy

  Tosca Lee (2015). “Havah: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

  Orson Scott Card

  Hurt, Heart, Sadness

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.561, Macmillan

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

  Emily Dickinson

  Halloween, House, Brain

  c.1863 Complete Poems, no.670 (first published 1891).

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• He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Blood, Space

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• Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

  Rod Stryker

  Love, Compassion, Frustrated

  "'Tantra Unveiled – An Interview with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait'". Interview with Rod Stryker, www.parayoga.com. September 25, 2000.

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• This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Roulette, Bullets

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• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Night, Reality

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

  John A. Macdonald

  Summer, Pot, Fortune

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• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Starting Over, Healthy, Debate

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Science, Men, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1887). “The "Breakfast-table" Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; The Professor at the Breakfast- Table; The Poet at the Breakfast- Table”

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• Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

  Lillian Hellman

  Baby, Believe, Views

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

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service?

  David McIntyre

  Kings, Blessing, Yield

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• Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.

  Harry Kalven

  Stars, Government, Criticism

  Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins

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• The 9th chamber, leave you trapped inside my hallway
  You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)
  No question, I send your ass back, right to the essence
  Your whole frame is smothered in dirt, now how you restin

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Essence, Trying

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• I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Destiny, Men, Thinking

  "Law and the Court". Speech at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York, library.law.harvard.edu. February 15, 1913.

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.' I should be grateful.' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.

  Philippa Gregory

  Daughter, Grateful, Giving

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• Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Prayer, Men, Our Generation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Order, Small Steps

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.17, BookBaby

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• We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

  T. S. Eliot

  Girl, Sea, Voice

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 129 (1917)

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