Caves Quotes

• Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Never Forget, Walks

  Twitter post from Feb 04, 2012

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• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Dark, Opportunity

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• Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Running, Dark

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• It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Light, Years, Darkness

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• The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men

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• going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

  Barbara Hurd

  Nature, Adventure, Labyrinth

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• The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Source, Turns

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

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• A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Men

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• In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Dark, Mind

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• There's a sketch where we're playing two terrorists in a cave, and my terrorist is very frustrated as to why we haven't flown a plane into a building in 13 years.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Years, Two, Frustrated

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

  John Darnielle

  Surroundings, I Can

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.

  Werner Herzog

  Wall, People, Important

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• Every day we learn more and more about this wacky Osama bin Laden. He lives in a cave and at one time he was a womanizer. But now he has settled down with his five wives and 26 kids, so that's now all over. ... He also had a drinking problem at one time. I believe he went through 'Jihab'

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Believe, Kids

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• I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

  Karl Pilkington

  Views, Palaces

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• The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Mystery, Womb

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• I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

  Lucille Clifton

  Thinking, Sky, Poetry

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• one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

  Simone Weil

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.36, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Couple, Night

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• If you are after truth, leave your cave!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ifs

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• There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Humanity

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• Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

  Rudyard Kipling

  Cat, Wish, Said

  Rudyard Kipling (2001). “Animal Stories”, p.7, House of Stratus

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• Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Stars, Welcome

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• The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.

  Gerald Stern

  Writing, Dark, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Wall, Black

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• Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Winter, Perfect

  Source: fpmt.org

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