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Quotes About Door

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.
~ Alice Sebold
It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.
~ Alice Walker
The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Somewhere, a heavy, glass door sighs in its airlock and a woman approaching fifty sprints to get her fingers in the gap before it closes.
~ Allison Pearson
OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
~ Ambrose Bierce
chambers and rattled even the iron-bound door in its frame. It taunted the flames in the firepit and they spat and crackled in their
~ Joe Abercrombie
The man retreated towards the door. And no doubt to a heroic, pointless death at one breach or another. The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones, Cosca had always found.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It was as if the door to an asylum had been flung open inside his skull, allowing a wave of incoherent screams, individual cries, and desperate fragmented phrases into his mind.
~ Joe Schreiber
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
the open front door. KCK cops had formed a perimeter, keeping the
~ Joel Goldman
Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.
~ David Berg
Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We doctors knowa hopeless case if—listen: there's a hellof a good universe next door; let's go
~ e. e. cummings
Eso fue amor, y me golpeó tan fuerte que me apoyé contra la pantalla de la puerta que seguía de pie entre nosotros, sólo para permanecer vertical.
~ E. Lockhart
The Yale lock he had given up at a glance. It was placed high up in the door, feet above the handle, and the chain of holes
~ E.W. Hornung
"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A wind with a wolf's head Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs And sat upon the floor.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Am I kin to Sorrow, That so oft Falls the knocker of my door— Neither loud nor soft, But as long accustomed— Under Sorrow's hand?
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I climbed up the door and opened the stairs, Said my pajamas and put on my prayers, Then I turned off the bed and crawled into the light All because you kissed me goodnight!
~ Anonymous
The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.
~ Anonymous
All things are possible, except for skiing through a revolving door.
~ Anonymous
It's like a lion at the door;And when the door begins to crack,It's like a stick across your back;And when your back begins to smart,It's like a penknife in your heart;And when your heart begins to bleed,You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Each of these books, child, is a door, a gateway to another place and time. You have your whole life in front of you, and for all of it, you'll have this. It will be enough, don't you think?
~ Anthony Doerr
Home of mice and damp and the stink of stranded shellfish, as if a huge tide swept in decades ago and took its time draining away. Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom.
~ Anthony Doerr