Wall Quotes

“Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“Reyes. Alexander. Farrow," I said.

Seconds after I spoke his name, Reyes walked into his bedroom, and I looked across the open space directly from my room into his.

He waited for me to continue.

"I feel like there's something missing from my bedroom."

A dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth. "You don't say."

"Any idea what that might be?"

He glanced around my room as well, then shrugged. "I can't imagine."

"Oh, wait," I said, stepping from my room into his, "wasn't there something here? Like, I don't know, a wall or something?"

He looked up. "You could be right. I do seem to remember a barrier of some kind here."

"Yep," I said, stepping closer, "I definitely remember a partition separating our apartments." When his only response was a mischievous tilt of his full mouth, I asked, "Where did you put my wall?"

He crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against his doorframe. "What makes you think I took it?"

"It was there this morning."

"And that means I took it? Maybe you just misplaced it. Where exactly did you see it last?"

I pressed my lips together. "You tore down my wall."

The smile he wore could've charmed the panties off a nun. Completely unrepentant, he admitted, "I tore down your wall.”
― Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge

“There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall.
Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“It’s the beating of my heart.
The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. It’s the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I’d found whatever I thought I had found, or wanted, or needed, and I started to collect my belongings. Build a home. Safe behind the comfort of these four walls and a closed door.
Because as much as I tried or pretended or imagined myself as a part of all the people out there,
I was still the one locking the door every night.
Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home.
’cause I was never really well around the expectations of my personality
and I wanted to keep to myself.
and because I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places.
Or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.”
― Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult

“If you let them see your heart, do not complain when they tear it apart.”
― Ella Fields, A King so Cold

“If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall,
then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“The largest wall in the living room is full of framed photos, depicting stories of war, peace, friendship, and love—everything in the last six decades displayed on a single wall.”
― Misba, The Oldest Dance

“There are no walls at the edge of this universe...
absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Lizards can’t pass through walls, but if we replace the L with a W, the goal might be attained.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“It was a place of dreams and fortunes. So coveted were the treasures of the City that the masters of old encircled it in a wall. As high as the clouds. As thick as ignorance. The wall was the first thing you noticed about the City and the first thing you wanted to forget.”
― Marcel M. du Plessis, The Silent Symphony

“We'd read while we balanced on the low rock walls that Seamus Heaney made famous in his poetry. A way to leave without really leaving.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“From up here, you couldn't see that people were starving. Couldn't see the ancient wall with the armed sentries stationed along it. Couldn't see the mothers' hands reaching, begging for a scrap of something to give their children as armored trucks rolled through the gate with just enough food to keep most of their families alive and hungry. From here, it was almost like quivering-chinned teens weren't probing for a place to sneak their younger siblings across, just hoping not to be gunned down or sent back. Like big men with knives and a little scraped-together power weren't taking more than their fair share, ganging up on the already downtrodden until they were forced to do something desperate and dangerous just to survive.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Musca este omul incapabil să aibă o perspectivă absolută. E limitat de pereții paharului.”
― Stelian Tănase, Skepsis

“Too many people not enough walls. -Pre 2020
Too many walls not enough people. -Post 2020”
― -ipi

“Vi måste våga gå ut och möta livet - hur smärtsamt det än är.”
― Ingrid Wall, A Silenced Voice: The Life of Journalist Kim Wall

“I didn't want to leave the sea, so I snuck away without anyone noticing and spent 2 days on the stormy shore. This is where I belonged, where all the silver walls led. To salt and sea and wind pockets that could carry you away.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“Firing the arrow through the 4th, target through the 5th.”
― Nsearistw

“I have always felt safest alone on the side of a hard-to-reach wall or a mountain. Although I understand that I could die in the mountains, I trust the hand of nature, and I know it will do me no harm. People seem to change and do confusing things. Places, on the other hand, I can count on.”
― Steph Davis, High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity

“It's when we don't see the writing on the wall that we run into the bricks.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Success is the sunny side of hell. Trek through the darkness of your mind. Hit walls. Burst through. Like the breaking day, success is no less than tearing through the gates of hell. The light of success is always there, it just burns a little. Open your eyes and see.”
― Richie Norton

“There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover."

Metropolitan Police spokesperson”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“I recall enthusiastically using my employee discount to buy a massive gold-framed print of two postcoital leopards. I originally intended to hang it over my futon bed, but I thought it sent the wrong message to all my potential suitors.”
― Samantha Bee, I Know I Am, But What Are You?

“The wall between the two worlds is thin. Spirits roam.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“There is no wall within which a door cannot be built.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The primal need for self-expression and documentation has appeared in human beings since the dawn of humankind. Our ancestors began carving shapes on rocks more than 40,000 years ago, and now graffiti has become a popular urban medium for self-proclamation an evidence of one’s egoic identity reinforcement, an innate desire to pronounce oneself and leave a mark in the world.

The wall is a sacred place. Containing layers and layers of joy and pain, it is a collective scream on the voice of humanity; it is raw, vulnerable, and real.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Student: Master, I saw a man looking at the wall, but there was nothing on the wall, the man was definitely crazy! Master: Maybe you saw a wall looking at the man, and the man was a clever man trying to figure out why the wall was looking at him!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Days form an endless ocean, there is no track of time
(My parents stole my wall clock).”
― Devika Todi, Dreaming in A Fish Bowl