Labyrinth Quotes

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

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

Names are not always what they seem.

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

I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.

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

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. That is, I don't want simply to pay homage to Borges, but rather the contrary: to recall his commonplaces.

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

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

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