Doors are parts of structures which may be opened or closed in order to control and restrict access. A door may also metaphorically refer to portals and other non-physical entrances. In literature, doors often represent choices or outcomes which the principle actors can directly engage with.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall besaved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Thethief cometh not, but for tosteal, and tokill, and todestroy: I am come that they might havelife, and that they might have it moreabundantly. ~JesusYog-Sothothknows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is thekey andguardian of the gate. ~H. P. Lovecraft
Anonymous Irish proverb, quoted inThe Search for God (1983) by David Manning White, p. 160
The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
"SirIsaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!" "The what?" said Richard. "The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention.It is a door within a door, you see, a ..." "Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity." "Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." … "You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap … ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see."
Douglas Adams, inDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
It's a door, Sol. It's a door.
Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette, and Eric Watson, in lines written for the character Maximillian Cohen, about the irrational numberπ, in the filmπ (1998).
There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him.
Alife oflove is one of continualgrowth, where thedoors and windows ofexperience are always open to thewonder andmagic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
Well, if Ieat it, and if it makes megrow larger, I can reach thekey; and if makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door: so either way I'll get into thegarden, and I don'tcare which happens!
there's a hell of a gooduniverse next door; let's go
E. E. Cummings, in "pity this busy monster, manunkind" in1 x 1 (1944)
WhenGod sends hisangel to thesoul it becomes the one whoknows for sure. Not for nothing did God give thekeys intoSt. Peter's keeping, for Peter stands for knowledge, andknowledge is the key that unlocks the door, presses forward and breaks in, to discover God as he is.
Meister Eckhart, in Sermon 9, as translated inThe Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church (1999) by Hughes Oliphant Old, Ch. 9 : The German Mystics, p. 448
Last thing I remember, I was running for the door. I had to find the passage back, to the place I was before.
I am thedoor: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Thethief cometh not, but for tosteal, and tokill, and todestroy: I am come that they might havelife, and that they might have it moreabundantly. I am thegood shepherd: thegood shepherd giveth his life for thesheep.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.It is attention that allows silence to come upon the mind, which is the opening of the door to creation.
In oneself lies the wholeworld and if you know how to look andlearn, the door is there and thekey is in yourhand. Nobody onearth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, as quoted inPerfecting Ourselves : Coordinating Body, Mind, and Spirit (2002) by Aaron Hoopes, p. 64
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate.
Maybe your reason why all the doors are closed So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
Katy Perry among other writers in the songFirework (2010)
When people keep repeating That you'll never fall inlove When everybody keeps retreating But you can't seem to get enough Let my love open the door Let my love open the door Let my love open the door To yourheart.
Remember, I have not appointed you as commanders and tyrants over thepeople. I have sent you asleaders instead, so that thepeople may follow yourexample. Give the Muslims theirrights and do not beat them lest they become abused. Do not praise them unduly, lest they fall into theerror ofconceit. Do not keep your doors shut in theirfaces, lest the morepowerful of themeat up theweaker ones. And do not behave as if you weresuperior to them, for that istyranny over them.
Umar, as quoted inOmar the Great : The Second Caliph Of Islam (1962) by Muhammad Shibli Numani, Vol. 2, p. 33
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