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Quotes About Maze

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.
~ lee jennette
Is it worth going into this admission process in just a little more detail? I think so, if only to appreciate the tendency the Italian authorities have of offering everybody a price (to endear themselves to the electorate) and then, since they can't actually afford to give it to everybody, setting up a maze, or obstacle race, to make sure that only those who really haggle for it (not those who need it) actually get it.
~ Tim Parks
With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
~ Jeff Bridges
Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.
~ Oscar Wilde
Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.
~ Oscar Wilde
To love both the invisible God, Repository of All Virtues, and visible man, apparently possessed of none, is often baffling! But ingenuity is equal to the maze. Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds?the stalwart kinship of selfish motive. In one sense at least, the brotherhood of man stands revealed. An aghast humility follows this leveling discovery. It ripens into compassion for one's fellows, blind to the healing potencies of the soul awaiting exploration.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Por un instante recordó el antiguo mito de Dédalo: el muchacho recorrió el laberinto del Minotauro con una mano pegada al muro, pues le habían garantizado que, si no dejaba de mantener contacto con él, encontraría la salida.
~ Dan Brown
The first time she had tried to kill herself, she had intuited that there was no escape. She had seen, with sudden clarity, that her life was a series of boxes, a maze that she would run and run through and never find an exit, and she thought, almost peacefully, I don't want it. I don't want my life.
~ Dan Chaon
Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known—not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am.
~ Daniel Keyes
Folly is an endless maze; Tangled roots perplex her ways;
~ William Blake
A maze of softly-lit slightly-curved beige hallways, all alike.
~ Leonard Richardson
Sie waren in einen Irrgarten immergrüner Hecken eingetaucht, und hinter jeder Hecke wartete eine Ecke, wartete eine Ecke, wartete eine Ecke, und dann noch eine Hecke. Nichts als Ecken und Hecken. Unnatürlich.
~ Leonie Swann
infinite corridor of panic that led nowhere.
~ Lev Grossman
And Quentin had never known how the Maze was redrawn over the summer, but apparently every year in June the groundskeeper goaded the topiary animals into such a feeding frenzy that they fell upon and devoured each other in a kind of ghastly slow-motion vegetarian holocaust.
~ Lev Grossman
She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The maze. Find your own way through and you shall win your heart's desire. Fail and you will wander for ever in these unforgiving walls.
~ Jeanette Winterson
London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.
~ Adam Schlesinger
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I felt lost in this maze. In the world into which Gavrila was initiating me, human aspirations and expectations were entangled with each other like the roots and branches of great trees in a thick forest, each tree struggling for more moisture from the soil and more sunshine from the sky.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.
~ Vera Nazarian
I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.
~ Kim Harrison
The Maze was built were dark from the earlier rain, and a hint of peat smoke drifted through the air from the distant cottages. It made Banks think of Laphroaig, and he wondered if he might regain his taste for Islay malt whisky before long.
~ Peter Robinson
We were great builders, but one day we decided to play a game. We did it voluntarily; were we such good builders that we could build a maze with a way out but which constantly changed so that, despite the way out, in effect there was no way out for us...
~ Philip K. Dick
My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.
~ David Levithan