Quotes About Walls

you come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.

Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears

All around are walls, for protection." Then her finger stopped its movement and rested on the soft center of her palm. "This is the pale." "So if you're beyond the pale…" "You're an outsider," said Myrna. "A threat." She slowly closed her hand.

Armand Gamache knew no good ever came from putting up walls. What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. And few things thrived in captivity.

All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

Sergeant Berry was never enthusiastic about the countryside. It was far too empty for his liking, too quiet, too open. It needed bricks. Lots of bricks, walls of them, making houses and factories, cluttering up all those wide spaces where the sky was visible.

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Yet often these people who are "on our side" are offended as well. So, instead of helping, we stack additional stones on our existing walls. Without our knowing when it happens, these walls of protection become a prison. At that point, we are not only cautious about who comes in, but in terror we cannot venture outside our fortress.

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.

With loves light wings did I o'perch this walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out. - Romeo

Many people are feeling lonely because they build walls instead bridges.

The reason for being lonely sometimes is not because of having no one, or missing someone... But mostly because we build walls instead of bridges...

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

For it looked as if the walls were simply dissolving in the rain; those stones still standing, pale and insubstantial as rice paper, seemed ready to melt away under my very eyes if I just stood there long enough.

I'll tell you what surprises me." "Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?" "It's your cat," he said. "I don't have a cat." "That's what surprises me." "You think I'm a cat person." "I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought to be a cat slipping along the walls.

Nevertheless, out of the 580-man garrison, 66 percent of the blacks and 35 percent of the whites were killed. Most of these casualties seem to have occurred during the melee immediately after the Confederates entered the walls, but not all. One

The curative properties of distraction were a balm to her agitated state. She had recently discovered that she was damn good at demolition; she liked tearing things apart, ripping entire walls off in huge slabs.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew the way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

I sat on the rocks and thought of the stories I knew of nymphs who wept until they turned into stones and crying birds, into dumb beasts and slender trees, thoughts barked up for eternity. I could not even do that, it seemed. My life closed me in like granite walls.

nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue."48

The pressure exerted by a gas on the walls of its container does not depend upon the individual histories of the molecules composing it," says the French existentialist philosopher.

Ogni epoca, ogni epoca colpevole, erige alte mura intorno alle sue Versailles; e io personalmente le odio ancora di più quando vengono costruite dalla letteratura e dall'arte.

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