Doors Quotes - Page 80
James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.76
We put ourselves there. The door to hell is locked from the inside.
James Albert Pike (1953). “Beyond anxiety: the Christian answer to fear, frustration, guilt, indecision, inhibition, loneliness, despair”
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214
Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
J. R. R. Tolkien (1963). “Angles and Britons”, Cardiff, University of Wales Press
J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons