Doors Quotes - Page 31

• Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Fall, Dark, Past

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.201, Library of America

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• Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

  Malcolm X

  Rain, Hands, Sun

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• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Being Alone, Writing

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• I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

  Antonin Artaud

  Book, Writing, Reality

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  World, Shrines, Aliens

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.14, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Funny, Girl

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.23, A&C Black

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• Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Love, Life, Birthday

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• We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace. Thus we actualize the power within us to remedy the psychic wounds of humanity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Psychics, Understanding, Humanity

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• You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

  Dave Eggers

  Giving, Chaos, Happens

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.67, Vintage

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• your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

  Brian Jacques

  May, Roaming, Be Kind

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• Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, People, Touching

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.84, Random House

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• “God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”

  Djuna Barnes

  Honesty, Liars, Men

  "Nightwood".

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• Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Faith, Men

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Fashion, Kindness, Heart

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• There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

  Lois Lowry

  Literature, World, Moments

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• My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Daughter, Children, Book

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• Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Night, Sky

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• What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

  Alan Bennett

  Book, Reading, Long

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• You and me?” I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.” “That’s what you think,” Chaz says, tugging on his coat. “And I’ll be damned if I’m going to wait around until you figure out that isn’t true.” “Fine,” I say “I’m not asking you to, am I?” “No.” Chaz is smiling… but not like he’s happy. “But you would if you had the slightest idea what was good for you.” And with that, he yanks open the door and storms through it, slamming it closed behind him with enough force to cause the windowpanes to rattle. And then he’s gone.

  Meg Cabot

  Laughter, Thinking, Ideas

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• A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Gun, Men

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• There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

  T. S. Eliot

  May, Way, Remember

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books

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• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

  John Keats

  Food, Book, Wine

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• works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Wall, Years

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• The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Closets, Left

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.33, City Lights Publishers

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