259 Quotes About Barriers


  • Author E.M Forster
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    It makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

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  • Author Pascal Mercier
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    What separates me from my present is like a fine mist, an intangible veil, an invisible wall. They don't put up the slightest resistance. Nothing would shatter if I were to walk through it. Because there is actually nothing at all between me and the world. A single step would be enough. Why didn't I take it long ago?

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  • Author Mindee Arnett
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    Titles served their purpose in creating necessary boundaries, reminding people of their place in life. Once she hadn’t realized how vast the chasm was between the highborn and lowborn, but she’d spent the last few years learning better. It was a vast chasm indeed, uncrossable.

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  • Author D.M. Shiro
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    Like a protective barrier, I had erected walls in my mind and mannerisms. There, in that moment, I felt the need to tear them down, to reveal my true self. As if my life would not have meaning unless I unleashed my true self on the world.

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  • Author Ehsan Sehgal
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    A true lover does not follow such rules that hold back him or her to express feelings even if exists multiple barriers.

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  • Author Sheila Heti
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    this daddy longlegs...became like a pet,' I offered. 'I remember that.' 'Not something you could control, but something you could love. But if it had left the bathroom and invaded the bedroom, you probably wouldn't have liked it so much. But keeping it in the bathroom allowed you to love it. Keeping it in there was a sign that you loved it...Barriers. We need them. They let you love someone. Otherwise you might kill them.

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  • Author Anais Nin
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    ...human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.

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