Walls Quotes

“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself.
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“We can't talk about it, or I know she won't so I don't even try, but it's what goes unsaid between people tat builds up like masonry. You have to either knock the bricks out with other things, or let them keep stacking until eventually you are alone in a room.”
― Justin Taylor

“Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Build bridges, not walls.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“In that moment and the moments surrounding,
walls were there, but not for me,
soils were there, but not for me,
times were there, but not for me.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace

“Boundaries are not walls; they're portals and you decide who comes and goes into your sacred territory.”
― Toni Sorenson

“No creas que estoy enfadada contigo. Sólo estoy triste. Por que tú has sido muy amable conmigo, y, a cambio, no he sabido ayudarte. Tú siempre estás encerrado en tu propio mundo y, cuando llamo a la puerta, ¨toc, toc¨, te limitas a levantar la cabeza antes de volver a encerrarte.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Athletes know. Artists know.
Parents, lovers,
passionate people of all kinds
know that there's always more--
more to draw on, more to be, become,
if you believe there's more,
or even
if you act as if
the more is there.

Your mind can protect you from taking that too far
when it's not working, when it needs
a course correction,
when you need a rest, some
nourishment, some care.

But sometimes the mind can just be
a glaring stop sign, a trigger warning sign,
a demon red light in your head.

And then ...
when the red light
turns to green,
stops flashing,
just goes away ...
the brake is released,
the impelling force is set free,
and speed happens,
magic happens,
floods of possibility rush forth
to fruition,
breaking through
the light barrier
the sound barrier
the barriers of body, mind, and heart,
the barriers of spirit and soul,
the beliefs so deeply embedded
they seem to be fundamental truths.
They were taught that way.
They were learned that way.
They are not that way.

It's the right time,
in the right place.
The light is about to change.
Break through.”
― Shellen Lubin

“How in the world are we supposed to engage life when we spend all of our life building walls to protect ourselves from the very thing that we say we want to engage? The answer is, I think, understanding that God doesn’t need walls but we need Him.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license to build whatever it pleases in whatever manner it pleases, I will find that I have confused safety with imprisonment.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some walls were built by others, while some were of our own making. The hardest to escape were those we chose to remain behind of our own will.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal

“Facing myself in the mirror is like that. If I never cut my hair, if I don't acknowledge that I've never allowed anyone to really know me, I can pretend that a perfect road awaits me. I can pretend there's some medicine that will magically allow me to see myself. But going down that road might mean discovering that there is no magic strong enough to bring me into harmony. Breaking the illusion means acknowledging the parts of myself that will never be visible.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

“I don’t think anyone’s ever shown Greer real love,” he says. “It may take some time to break down those walls, but when you do? I don’t think you’d find a more loyal wife.”

I crack open one eye and grin at him. “She just might have a shifter side piece.”

He laughs. “Maybe a fae too.”
― Rory Miles, Shadow Slayer

“Healthy boundaries are not walls. They are gates and fences that allow you to enjoy the beauty of your own garden.”
― Lydia Hall

“The walls were now witnessing an innocent girl cry.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“now i can safely claim
the pages within these walls
are more than my allies;
they are my own”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Titans

“Man has built walls around himself. Not to keep lies out, but to keep the truth hidden within.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Yes, in the short term, walls and fences can support the development of a security regime that will limit the damaging and deadly impact of terrorism against peace. But, ultimately, security cannot be secured by means of block peoples' movement; it can only be achieved in the long run by changing the consciousness of people and their desire to live in peace.”
― Gershon Baskin, In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine

“Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors. We tear them down at our peril.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Where we are strongest
it is the easiest
to stay open, fluid--
curtains of lace and linen instead of
walls of steel--
open borders
(at least for those with passports and visas
or the will to earn citizenship
in our personal territory),
never losing clarity,
because that is where we are strong.

Where our resolve is weakest
is where we have to draw the hardest lines
for ourselves,
for others,
for the world.
We can't afford to give a little,
because, well, our resolve is too likely to give way
when so tested.

It sounds so simple.
But it can be so hard
to do.

Where we are weak,
the hard lines must be drawn strong.”
― Shellen Lubin

“It is my desperate wish to walk in something bigger than myself simply because to walk in myself is to live a life of small circles and ever-tightening walls. I am dying to walk in something bigger than all of mankind combined because in walking with mankind I am repeatedly faced with the very same circles and exact same walls. I wish neither of these. Rather, I want to walk in God because in Him there are no circles, walls are unknown, and horizons are the theme of everything He does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Walls are more than stone and mortar. They are silent sentinels, their eyes following every movement, their mouths sealed yet harboring countless reminiscences.

They're silent storytellers. They witness hushed secrets and grand pronouncements, absorbing the laughter and tears that reverberate within their confines.

Their textures saying under its breath, of the lives lived within. The worn wallpaper narrating chronicles. The chipped paint flecks capture fleeting moments, and the floor creak with impressions unseen.

The silence of walls holds the weight of history.
A chronicle of lives lived within their embrace.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being separated from their children in the US; border walls are being built and fortified at an unprecedented rate across the globe (there are currently seventy-four in existence). But this much is clear: when walls are built, people will find a way over or under them; when families are separated, they do everything in their power to be reunited; and when women are victims, they find the courage to speak up, to band together, to survive.”
― Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

“A prison might feel like freedom for those who don’t understand that there’s two sides to every wall.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our arrogance has convinced us of our ability to create the keys that will unlock the doors that imprison us. But we’ve yet to realize that only God can get us over the wall.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too many people live out their lives like some docile hermit living in a suffocatingly tiny room, all the while believing that there’s nothing on the other side of the walls and that the door is a decoration.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A mind that fears the unknown builds walls; a mind that embraces it builds bridges.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The problem with building a wall as a defense against the world is when you're finished you're there with yourself with nowhere to hide.”
― Willa Reece, Wildwood Whispers