Quotes About Labyrinth

The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

To walk the same route again can mean to think the same thoughts again, as though thoughts and ideas were indeed fixed objects in a landscape one need only know how to travel through. In this way, walking is reading, even when both the walking and reading are imaginary, and the landscape of the memory becomes a text as stable as that to be found in the garden, the labyrinth, or the stations.

It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.

It would have compromised his basic approach to life which was to have it as confusing, labyrinth-laden and fucked up as possible.

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!

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

Life is all about being in the labyrinth just to seek happiness but the only way to escape it is to stop and wait what's next in this line

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

Asterion. She calls me by my name, and lights this sunless coffin like a flame.

A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes, which are nearly faded

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

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]

Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it so straight up and down—like Fifth Avenue. And with all the cross streets numbered!" She seemed to guess his faint disapproval of this, and added, with the rare smile that enchanted her whole face: "If you knew how I like it for just that—the straight-up-and-downness, and the big honest labels on everything!" He saw his chance. "Everything may be labelled—but everybody is not.

Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.

In der Tat ist Foucaults Werk ein verwirrendes Labyrinth, in welchem der Autor, der keiner sein will und in Wahrheit nie das ist, was er zunächst zu sein scheint, umherirrt und sich verliert.

Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!

Oh, why had the Labyrinth brought me here? As soon as I thought this, I chided myself: Of course it would bring me where I least wanted to be. Austin had been wrong about the maze. It was still evil, designed to kill. It was just a little subtler about its homicides now.

when he had looked into the heart of the labyrinth and made a vow to protect the secret with his life.

Ariadne in the labyrinth. The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble. I strew devastation as I pass. I wander dead-eyed through cities and petrified populations.

What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving.

Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you'd faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you'd come, follow your own thread, the thread you'd left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –

We must resign ourselves to the fact that the only way in which we can find the clue to the mystery of the rays, systems, and hierarchies, lies in the study of the law of correspondences or analogy. It is the one thread by which we can find our way through the labyrinth, and the one ray of light that shines through the darkness of the surrounding ignorance.