Quotes About Doorway

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

read that according to Shinto, the ancient religion of Japan, the invisible space of a doorway is what both separates and unites two opposite worlds. It is still everyday tradition for a visitor approaching someone's home to call out, "Ojama shimasu." Used in the same way, we might say, "May I come in?" The literal translation is, "I am about to disturb you.

He made eye contact but he kept it like casual observation, not a fixed stare. He held his arms at his sides, not only because it was less threatening, but they'd be able to fend off a blow. He cleared the doorway so he'd have an escape route.

If we die, said Louis, I want to die in the doorway of Tad's Steakhouse.

I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.

Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Radio was always a doorway to something for me growing up.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

He was doing chinning exercies in the closet, using a bar clamped to the doorway. 'Where did you get that?' 'It's Mercator's.' 'Who's that?' 'He's this senior I hang around with now. He's almost nineteen and he's still in high school. To give you some idea.' 'Some idea of what?' 'How big he is. He bench-presses these awesome amounts.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Listen to your fears, they are the doorway to your freedom.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Then she saw him in outline, standing in the doorway, his powerful figure filling the open space.

Symbols are the things we look at because they can be a doorway into another world. We very much go by sense, feeling the way as we go, but my maxim on that occasion was: if in doubt, throw it out. Some of the books mentioned ley lines. There was another called Satanic Rites of the High Priests. These doorways had to be closed off.

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

Alon Johnson] Later wrote that, "coming through a battered building near a well known and dangerous doorway. I heard something unfamiliar -- the sound of excited voices somewhere in the distance. The significance of this babble seemed to escape the tired company, but to me it suggested a sudden and radical change in the situation. Important enough to risk being shot at by showing myself in the doorway. Nothing happened, so I stepped into the street,...

She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H. Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All

Here is the threshold I do not cross: a sliver of light through the doorway finds his tattoo, the anchor on his forearm tangled in its chain.

The question is too big for him. I will see this often in the years to come, the way he could suddenly pause on a phrase or even just a word, as if in it were a doorway and his mind would enter and leave us momentarily. Back then we thought it was what all fathers did. We thought that fatherhood was this immense weight like a great overcoat and there were all manner of things your father had to be thinking of all the time just to keep the overcoat from crushing him.