Mental Maze Quotes

Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way.

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.