Quotes of Labyrinth - somelinesforyou

“ In all the mazes of metaphorical confusion. ”

- Junius

“ The unquiet republic of the maze of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”

- Desmond Morris

“ Life is a zoo in a jungle. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. ”

- Ely Culbertson

“ Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good! ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. ”

- Ely Culbertson

“ Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. ”

- Barbara Sher

“ The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”

- John Milton

“ The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”

- Desmond Morris

“ Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ 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. ”

- John Wesley Powell

“ The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ Miami does not have a visitor-friendly airport. At Miami International, a cramped and dingy labyrinth, the message is: Just Try to Find Our Baggage Claim Area! ”

- Dave Barry

“ They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themseleves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest. Difficult tasks are a priviledge to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation… ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. ”

- Joseph Campbell
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