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Quotes About Cave

To be a meditator doesn't simply mean to live in a cave; it means to train oneself in the true meaning [of the natural state].
~ Unknown
The voices belonged to dragons. Five of them lay on or sprawled over or curled around the various rocks and columns that filled the huge cave where Cimorene stood. Each of the males (there were three) had two short, stubby, sharp-looking horns on either side of their heads; the female dragon had three, one on each side and one in the center of her forehead. The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn't have any horns at all.
~ Unknown
He no longer yearned for his life in the cave. He had experienced that life once and it had proved unlivable. Just as had his other experience - life among human beings. He was suffocated by both worlds. He no longer wanted to live at all.
~ Patrick Süskind
While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Un microorganismo minúsculo se alimentaba del excremento de los murciélagos del suelo de la cueva; un gusano se comía el microorganismo; un escarabajo se comía el gusano; una araña se comía el escarabajo; finalmente, un murciélago se comía la araña. Era una cadena alimenticia perfecta.
~ Peter James
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
~ Genesis 19:30
to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
~ Genesis 23:9
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
~ Genesis 23:19
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
~ Genesis 25:9
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
~ Genesis 49:30
The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
~ Genesis 49:32
They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
~ Genesis 50:13
Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.
~ Joshua 10:16
And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”
~ Joshua 10:17
So Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and post men there to guard them.
~ Joshua 10:18
So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
~ Joshua 10:23
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
~ Judges 15:8
So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his fatherís household heard about it, they went down to him there.
~ 1 Samuel 22:1
Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
~ 1 Samuel 24:3
After that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed facedown in reverence
~ 1 Samuel 24:8
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ëThere has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.í
~ 2 Samuel 17:9
At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
~ 2 Samuel 23:13
There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
~ 1 Kings 19:9
When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
~ 1 Kings 19:13