81 Quotes About Caves

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

There’s nothing to be scared of, right Akhol?”He said nothing as he stepped toward the rushing water that rolled around a big rock and was swallowed whole by impenetrable darkness.“Right?” Andrew repeated, his voice swallowed by the sound of rushing water.Akhol didn’t respond again. He tapped a foot above the water before he stepped in and disappeared beneath the surface in one fluid motion.

Libraries are like caves. They are places of transformation. There are secrets hidden within those walls.

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

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

The sacredness of the world is that it pursued the light; the sanctity of the cave is that it never left the darkness

There were rumours of underwater cities, subterranean caves dripping with the blood of human sacrifice and even the odd story about natives interbreeding with some of the more attractive fish.

A cave has two great things to teach you: Light is sacred; silence is to integrate with eternity!

If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.’'If there really are such creatures in here,’ Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.