{"quotes":[{"text":"You don't pity a warrior for her scars, because scars are proof of survival and victory.","author":"Chloe Jacobs","tags":["demons","epic-fantasy","fae","fractured-fairy-tale","gnome","goblin-king","goblins","labyrinth","na-fantasy","witches"],"id":24037,"author_id":"Chloe+Jacobs"},{"text":"She said, 'It's not life or death, the labyrinth.'Um, okay. So what is it?'Suffering,' she said. 'Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.","author":"John Green","tags":["alaska","labyrinth","philosophy","pudge","suffering"],"id":26671,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ('Labyrinth of the mind').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["actuality","appraise","assemble","at-last","authenticity","consequential","decay","experience","facts","factuality","gradually","idealize","key-point","labyrinth","live-through","maimed","mind","mutate","numerous","past","review","sometimes"],"id":30647,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"That (labyrinth)...Became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one. After that careful walking and looking down, the stillness was deeply moving...It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.","author":"Rebecca Solnit","tags":["arrival","goal","labyrinth","maze","path","walking","words"],"id":53293,"author_id":"Rebecca+Solnit"},{"text":"I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["abstraction","contemplation","imagination","labyrinth"],"id":74672,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It's the end of the road, where there is no more mystery, no more hope. And no more questions to ask, since all the answers have been given. But there is no such place.The Universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics. Out of mathematics we build wagons to carry us into the nonhuman realms of the world.","author":"Stanisław Lem","tags":["labyrinth","science","truth","universe"],"id":89144,"author_id":"Stanis%C5%82aw+Lem"},{"text":"How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?","author":"John Green","tags":["alaska","labyrinth","life","maze","sad","suffering"],"id":92354,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded.","author":"Federico García Lorca","tags":["confusion","hope","labyrinth","stars"],"id":105651,"author_id":"Federico+Garc%C3%ADa+Lorca"},{"text":"And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny … is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["being","destiny","existence","fatalism","jorge-luis-borges","labyrinth","moment","reality","succession","time","world"],"id":108274,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"He stands alone in hollow gloom, with the sound of his own breath whispering down unseen passages ahead and behind and to both sides, wondering how he stumbled into this blackest of all labyrinths.He entered by choice. We all do. Whether we are mapping the heavens or skulking the lanes of the underworld, whether we are hunting the imprisoned fiend or have ourselves become the monster, whether we are searching for what is lost or hiding what must never be found, we all round that first corner by choice - and by then, we are lost.You too. You must decide what is false and what is true, and what is true for me but not for you. We are wandering the mazes, all of us, and we cannot hope to escape until we learn to tell between what is real and what is real for someone else. There lies the madness, and the truth as well.","author":"Troy Denning","tags":["labyrinth","madness","monsters","psychology","theseus"],"id":133322,"author_id":"Troy+Denning"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}