Labyrinth Quotes

• Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

  Haruki Murakami

  Steps, Projection

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 23, 2015

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• If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mean, Garden, Jewels

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• The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

  Jeremy Denk

  Solve, Persons

  "Every Good Boy Does Fine: A life in piano lessons" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 08, 2013.

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• With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

  Jeff Bridges

  Choices, Way, Chosen

  "THR Cover: Jeff Bridges' Revealing New Interview" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 12, 2011.

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• What man does not know,
  Or has not thought of,
  Wanders in the night
  Through the labyrinth of the mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Night, Men, Mind

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• The labyrinth literally reintroduces the experience of walking a clearly defined path. This reminds us that there is a path, a process that brings us to unity, to the center of our beings. In the simple act of walking, the soul finds solace and peace.

  Lauren Artress

  Simple, Soul, Unity

  Lauren Artress (1996). “Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice”, p.74, Penguin

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• The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Forever, Lines

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• Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Memories, Passion, Desire

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.18, Vintage

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• For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.

  Charles Perrault

  Lost, Knows

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• There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Needs, Universe

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

  Sting

  Music, Journey, Thinking

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• Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind.

  Pam Houston

  Giving, Mind, Walks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end,
  full of new paths to discover,
  where mystery remains eternal

  Pierre Boulez

  Music, Discovery, Path

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• Every labyrinth has its minotaur

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Minotaur

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• I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Giants, World, Crossroads

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• It's only forever... Not long at all.

  David Bowie

  Tattoo, Long, Forever

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• The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

  Jacques Attali

  Path, Firsts, Womb

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• Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Self

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• I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Past, World, Abstract

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  World, Enough, Bigs

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.524, Macmillan

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• Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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• At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

  John Green

  Alaska, Mazes, Looks

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Time, Planning

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• The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crush, Spiritual, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

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• The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Minotaur, Existence, Justify

  "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1949.

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