156 Quotes About Walls

To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.

An end is only an end because we haven’t taken the time to find the door in the wall.

You can give up the walls of your house, but never give up the windows!

I was just trying to open the door... but the walls fall down

Walls don't fall without effort.

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

Draw a picture on a wall; now that wall is no longer a wall, it is a living extension of art heaven!

Anywhere you accept as a frontier will be your frontier! Everyone builds his own prison, his own walls!

While walls provide a boundary and protection, they also exclude people and make intimacy ('into-me-see') difficult.