Corridors Quotes

• The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

  Esther Hicks

  Destiny, Joy, Want

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• Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Running, Dream, Ghost

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• There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lonely, Men, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us

  A.J. Cronin

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

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• But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

  J. M. Ledgard

  Moving, Thinking, Doors

  J M Ledgard (2011). “Submergence”, p.33, Random House

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• I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Wind, Long

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.

  Neil Lennon

  Dark, Light, Knowing

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• our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Anxiety, Mind

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.356, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dark, Men

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• You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

  John Huston

  Doors, Arches, Flow

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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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• Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.

  Mike Murdock

  Lying, Men, He Man

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• Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Secret, Mystery

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• History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

  T. S. Eliot

  Issues, History, Cunning

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Progress, Levels

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• Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

  Fritz Leiber

  Movement, Lows, Loses

  Fritz Leiber (1964). “The wanderer”

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

  T. S. Eliot

  Forgiveness

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• I think continually of those who were truly great.

  Stephen Spender

  Thinking

  1933 'I Think Continually of Those'.

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• The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.

  Douglas Adams

  Opposites, Two, Long

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2005). “The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be”, p.58, Crown Archetype

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Ambition, Knowledge

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .

  Stephen Spender

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

  Joe L. Wheeler

  Autumn, Tickets, Destination

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• The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

  Hakim Bey

  Dancing, Perception, Deeds

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• "You are so close." "To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

  Thomas Pynchon

  Islands, White, Brain

  "V". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1961.

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• once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Confidence, Night, Men

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