Corridors Quotes

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

  Esther Hicks

  Destiny, Joy, Want

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Staircases, Elevation

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think continually of those who were truly great.

  Stephen Spender

  Thinking

  1933 'I Think Continually of Those'.

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• there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Faith, Real, Book

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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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• May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Children, May

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• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sad, Running, Depressing

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• …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Thinking, Light

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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