Caves Quotes - Page 4

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

If you are after truth, leave your cave!

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.

Cracks make caves collapse.

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

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

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.