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  • Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.

  • Names are not always what they seem.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation
  • Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

    Errors   Discovery   Joy  
  • London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

    Book   Smell   Light  
  • One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

  • A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

    Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.56, Penguin
  • The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

  • Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

    Wall   Lying   Ocean  
    'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills' (1818) l. 90
  • For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

  • Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

    Wine   Blood   Names  
    "Wine Buyers Guide".
  • It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?

    Yarn   Labyrinth   Mazes  
    "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 36, Journal entry (August 1, 1835), 1978.
  • Is the labyrinth living or dying?

    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin
  • A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start

  • You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

    Views   Labyrinth   Toil  
    John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.397, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

    Revenge   War   Sorrow  
  • Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!

    Dark   White   Labyrinth  
  • Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

    Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.
  • The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.

    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Penguin
  • Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.

    Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster
  • Jungles and grasslands are the logical destinations, and towns and farmland the labyrinths that people have imposed between them sometime in the past. I cherish the green enclaves accidentally left behind.

    Past   People   Labyrinth  
  • The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

    Real   Garden   Space  
  • Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.

  • London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

    Labyrinth   Half   Flesh  
    Peter Ackroyd (2000). “London: The Biography”, Doubleday
  • Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

    Home   Self   Long  
    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin
  • I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

    Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE
  • The only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is You.

    "Every Good Boy Does Fine: A life in piano lessons" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 08, 2013.
  • This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.

  • the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

  • And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

    Labyrinth   Way   My Way  
    John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin
  • The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

    John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin
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