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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. — H.G.Wells

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People's lives in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. — Alice Monro

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones. — N.D. Wilson

All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. — Michael Ende

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt. — Pete Wentz

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves. — Joana James

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die. — Mark Rubinstein

The powdery sand caves under his weight and his bare feet sink at once marking the beach with shallow potholes — Stephanie Fleshman

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man. — John Berger

I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES! — Kane

Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you. — Miley Cyrus

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. — John Milton

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves. — Eddie McGuire

I've had people tell me to get Mystic Tan, blonde highlights, choppy haircuts, but I've made a conscious decision not to cave. — Kat Dennings

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell. — Prudentius

I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death. — John Milton

Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable. — William Stone

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. — William Empson

And he whose soul is flat
the sky Will cave in on him by and by. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves. — Steven Magee

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks. — Donald Rumsfeld

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. — Joseph Campbell

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. — Barack Obama

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Birds never sing in caves. — Henry David Thoreau

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. — Tarthang Tulku

Can you believe I have a favorite cave? — Veronica Rossi

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. — Ernest Hello

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them. — Ian Astbury

The CIA's resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves-not polar bears on icebergs. — John Barrasso

I didn't realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another - bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave. — Karen Russell

I was told these caves were full of bandits."
She leans forward. "They are," she whispers. "But not all of us are criminals. — Sarah Fine

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful. — Plato

that dwelling was named Menegroth, the Thousand Caves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. — Ram Dass

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. — William C. Samples

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map. — Dick Vitale

In the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. — Nick Bantock

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred. — Alex Haley

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion. — Suzy Kassem

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world. — Tim Burton

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. — Iris Murdoch

Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'. — Mick Miller

Medicine men live in caves. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. — John Hillaby

People b'lief the world is built so
an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours. — David Mitchell

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves. — Cuthbert Soup

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave ... go figure. — Joe Teti

They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave. — Hank Snow

Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying. — Andrew Wight

Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We can all shut-up and go back to our caves. — Leonard Bernstein

Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave. — Demetri Martin

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. — Reginald Fessenden

When thought is closed in caves, then love shall show its root in deepest hell. — William Blake

His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths. — Charlaine Harris

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. — Stephen Gardiner

Cracks make caves collapse. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The connectors have gained the upper hand. We isolationists languish in the caves. Take — Ethan Canin

Dolphins rape caves, Google it. — Kirsty Dallas

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves. — Donald E. Westlake

It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves. — John Perry Barlow

I feel like my life has a lot of caves and they are all filled with your hair: a love story. — Melissa Broder

One is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it. — Simone Weil

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. — Mason Cooley

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe. — Jason Statham

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. — Frederick Lenz

Men go to their caves .. Women talk — John Gray

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18 — Beth Moore

Plato's cave is full of freaks. — Jack Johnson

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. — Thomas Gray

Come on," he said.
"Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out. — Cassandra Clare

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.' — Rudyard Kipling

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. — William Shakespeare

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing. — David Letterman

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change, — Robert Downey Jr.

You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am. — John Darnielle

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. — Mahatma Gandhi

Genius, really, the Brits. They built a house and it lasts for centuries and we built a football stadium that caves in within a year. — Hadi M. Nor

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately. — Mahatma Gandhi

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves. — Kate Forsyth

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again. — John G. Hemry

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business. — Robert Mykle

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing ... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. — Fernando Botero

Let's leave her," Ronan said. Gansey replied, "If we abandoned people in caves because they were crazy, you'd still be back in Cabeswater. — Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in. — Wes Bentley