Quotes on Doors

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.