48 Quotes About Wall

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore. Shaun Jeffrey

It’s the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. It’s the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I’d found whatever I thought I had found, or wanted, or needed, and I started to collect my belongings. Build a home. Safe behind the comfort of these four walls and a closed door. Because as much as I tried or pretended or imagined myself as a part of all the people out there, I was still the one locking the door every night. Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home. ’cause I was never really well around the expectations of my personalityand I wanted to keep to myself. and because I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places. Or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. Charlotte Eriksson

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday. Rebecca McNutt

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually Rasheed Ogunlaru

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird’s wing beating, the world seems unreal. Bernard Cornwell

When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan! ! Olaotan! ! ! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind. Olaotan Fawehinmi

It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also! Steven Magee

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure. Unknown

Out of sight, out of mind, right? That motto is just atemporary fix–until you’re forced to come face to face with what you’ve been running from. That’s whenthe mental walls you’ve built to hide behind come crashing down in one hard blow. Penelope Ward

Your challenges are like tall walls with weak foundations. They'll fall when you dare to give them a blow. Don't be afraid to dare... You will surely overcome! Israelmore Ayivor

Not every wall needs a ceiling Munia Khan

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down. Jodi Picoult

When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting! Serina Hartwell

Success is for those that presses on when they see a wall, find ways around a road block and consistently push boundaries and conquer territories against all odds. Oscar Bimpong

Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been wrong, but I was right.' If she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it. I sit in the chair exploring the meaning of dumbstruck, rolling the word around in my mind. I laugh with Miriam as she laughs at herself, and at the boldness of being sixteen. At sixteen you are invulnerable. I laugh with her about rummaging around for a ladder in other people's sheds, and I laugh harder when she finds one. We laugh at the improbability of it, of someone barely more than a child poking around in Beatrix Potter's garden by the Wall, watching out for Mr McGregor and his blunderbuss, and looking for a step-ladder to scale one of the most fortified barriers on earth. We both like the girl she was, and I like the woman she has become. She says suddenly, 'I still have the scars on my hands from climbing the barbed wire, but you can't see them so well now.' She holds out her hands. The soft parts of her palms are crazed with definite white scares, each about a centimeter long. The first fence was wire mesh with a roll of barbed wire along the top. Anna Funder

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it. Molly Friedenfeld

Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened? Israelmore Ayivor

Everything is like a wall. Said a scholar to the troll. Bang your head to go on through. Then you'll see, there is no queue. Will Advise

I tell you once and for all–in front of the angel pictures on the wall, that I am not a host to load-bearing ghosts or headyentities, and if I was ever holy, I have fallen farinto the dense atmosphere of the living. Kristen Henderson

Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall. Jay Woodman

There are no walls at the edge of this universe...absence of gravity is the limit of space existence. Toba Beta

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth. Toba Beta

Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile? Shawn Lukas

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job. Brian McGreevy

Being like a rock wall" is when a master of martial arts suddenly becomes like a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable. Miyamoto Musashi

For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? George R.r. Martin

Can a broken cisterns hold water? Lailah Gifty Akita

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. Victor Hugo

I didn't like Dali: now, like you, I do. Like you, I began to drink my Coke with a pinch of salt . Like you, I stopped bothering about ironed clothes. Like you, I sit with a dictionary while reading the papers. Like you, I sit on the compound wall after a bath. Sachin Kundalkar

Life is one wall which stay in front of you as much you push as more stronger it gets. Sometimes you can pass it others not and in most cases from so many pushes you get injured badly and you die! Deyth Banger

Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn? David Burr Gerrard

I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people. Tyra Banks

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. John F. Kennedy

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. Louis Kahn

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore. Harry Anderson

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall. Robert Downey

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods. Gustav Stickley