Quotes About Walls

Someone had reported the judge naked atop the walls, immense and pale in the revelations of lightning, striding the perimeter up there and declaiming in the old epic mode.

It was a peaceful scene in the little garden. The heat was trapped there, reflected off the soft, flaky red brick of the walls, and the air was drowsy with the sound of bees, attracted by the marigolds and lavender which had been planted there to fetch them; for fruit will not be born without the bee, and the garden was given over to fruit. All

Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

He was as blank, and white as the walls, which was just fine with him. Maybe if they'd given him some vodka and weed, his head would have straightened out. He had said that to the shrink – one of them, at least – but if he remembered correctly, it hadn't gone over very well.

Was it Apollo's snare so that poets forever should be caught in the maze of the walls of a Troy that never fell?

A mist still lay all about the walls and floors, hovering like a last breath on the lips of all the sleepers. As he walked through the castle, he marveled at how many lay asleep: the good people, the not-so-good, the young people and the not-so-young, and not one of them stirring. Not one.

It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Fear envelops bones like new skin, envelops blood with night's skin, the earth moves beneath the soles of the feet - it is not your hair but the terror in your head, like long hair made of vertical nails, and what you see are not shattered streets, but rather, within you, your own crushed walls, your frustrated infinity, again the city comes crashing down: in your silence, only water's threat is heard, and in the water drowned horses gallop through your death.

Es una casa tan grande la ausencia que pasarás en ella a través de los muros y colgarás los cuadros en el aire. [Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air]

And then he left the palace to roam the streets of Ombria, where he painted shadows as he searched for light within them, painted thick, barred doors, as he searched in their hewn, scarred grains for what it was they hid, painted high windowless walls as if, rebuilding them stone by stone on paper, he could dismantle them and finally see the secret life behind the real.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

In my life the furniture eats me the chairs, the floor the walls which heard your sobs drank up my emotion- they which alone know everything and snitched on us in the morning-

and she turned for the stairs as the sound of rain came, finally, scattered across the roof, a fall that now gave substance to the stilled beams of headlamps in the drive where those of flashlights rose and fell to the cadenced steps come back and round the range of yew and up the terrace and through the door to fall on broken glass and flee across the inkstained carpet, darting, climbing, caught fixed in niches, they scaled the walls and leaped the beams to skirt the hayloft.

My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Two things happened: (1) The door, quite clearly, locked. (2) Out went the candles on the high walls. DON'T BE FRIGHTENED! Inigo screamed. I'M NOT, I'M NOT! Fezzik screamed.

He glanced beyond the walls, at the strange night, in which gods were ignored and memories were out hunting the future.

Miri and I conferred and decided that we liked the tallness of the house, the way the walls shoot up and up with the certainty of stone

He got up from the table and went through to the study which adjoined the dining-room. It was a rather small, comfortably untidy room, and the greater part of its walls were lined with built-in bookshelves.

There used to be places called prisons before the Epiphany, where the demerited were restrained against their will. It sounds hideously barbaric Prisons are still with us; only the walls are constructed of fear, taboo and the unknown.

Nous sommes trop vêtus de villes et de murs. Nous avons trop l'habitude de nous voir sous notre forme antinaturelle... Nous ne savons plus que nous sommes des animaux libres...

There are different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. She burnt a lot more than the letters that night in the backyard. I don't think she knew. In her head she was still queen, but not my queen any more, not the White Queen any more. Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.