Gorges Quotes

• Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

  Herman Melville

  Running, Heart, Iron

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.161

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• There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Eagles, Space

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.473, Velvet Element Books

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• Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Trouble, Abolish

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, People, Majority

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• Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?

  Gary Snyder

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

  Gary Snyder (2010). “Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems”, p.46, Counterpoint Press

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• At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jan 25, 2016

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• Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Mind, Flesh

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

  Malcolm Douglas

  Water, Chance, Environment

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• There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

  Ishmael

  Woe, Madness, Invert

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• Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

  Joseph Heller

  Luck, Gold, Rising

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

  William James

  Religious, Twilight, Mountain

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

  Gary Snyder

  Life, Ocean, Creativity

  Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

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• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ocean, Thinking

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• There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

  Sherman Alexie

  Pain, Addiction, Going Away

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• The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann

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• Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

  Richard Wilbur

  Passion, Thinking, Shoes

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

  Louis Leakey

  Past, Years, Giving

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• Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

  Plautus

  Greek, Drink

  "Mostellaria" by Mostellaria, Act I, scene 1, lines 61-62,

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• I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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• The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, Hey, Tradition

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• Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

  Djuna Barnes

  Doubting Everything, Looks, Done

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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• We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Cutting, Mass Extinction

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• Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

  Melina Marchetta

  Echoes, Voice, Way

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• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Temptation, Chocolate

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.188, Penguin

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