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Quotes About Enclosed

He sits with the pen in his hand, holding himself back from a descent into representations that have no place in the world, on the point of toppling, enclosed within a moment in which all creations lies open at his feet, the moment before he loosens his grip and begins to fall.
~ J.M. Coetzee
To illustrate: to walk ten miles in an enclosed space of ten feet is not really movement. There are not ten miles of space, only time.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
~ George Eliot
The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.
~ Peter Chrysologus
We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.
~ Umberto Eco
I enjoy some nights in the studio. I'm not the greatest person in an enclosed space; I'm a live player by birth - like a gypsy folk player, I just sit in the corner and play.
~ Rory Gallagher
It's crowded, she murmured as her eyes laughed into his. The longer we're in here... His thighs brushed against hers as a toddler wiggled up to the glass. The fonder I am of snakes.
~ Nora Roberts
Like small animals sheltered deep in their den
~ Celeste Ng
There is no weather in malls.
~ Charles Baxter
I love to get letters But the sweetest, by heck, Are the ones that begin with: "Inclosed please find check."
~ Milwaukee Sentinel, 1906
The earth fell away on every side equally in its arcature and by these limits were they circumscribed and of them were they locus.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.
~ Walt Whitman
Just tested positive for claustrophobia.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
The warmth has come. The doors have opened. Flower and song Embroider ground and air, lead me Beside the healing field that waits; Growth, death, and a restoring form Of human use will make it well. But I go on, beyond, higher In the hill's fold, forget the time I come from and go to, recall This grove left out of all account, A place enclosed in song.
~ Wendell Berry
We were underground', she said. 'Not just the pipeworks, everything!
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Some of the tension seeped out of the air when the doors closed behind us.
~ Darren Shan
I still experienced some moderate feelings of anxiety—like when you're buried alive.
~ Woody Allen
Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.
~ Elizabeth Vargas
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.
~ Unknown
They were the sort of walls that hoarded winter and emanated its chill throughout summer.
~ Peter Robinson
The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying.
~ David Levithan
I would later discover it was a bad idea to gather more than two of these people in an enclosed area for any length of time. The stage was not only a physical place but also a state of mind, and the word audience was defined as anyone forced to suffer your company. We young actors were a string of lightbulbs left burning 24 hours a day, exhausting ourselves and others with our self-proclaimed brilliance.
~ David Sedaris
I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone.
~ Joanne Harris
If I had nothing to say to Henry right off it was because following Lippman's seminar, language didn't really seem my domain any longer. I wasn't exactly a stranger to disputation, but never in my life had I felt so enclosed by a world so contentious, where the argument is enormous and constant and everything turns out to be pro or con, positions taken, positions argued, and everything italicized by indignation and rage.
~ Philip Roth