60 Inspiring Cave Quotes To Challenge Our Comfort Zones

The cave is within; the light is within.
– Anonymous

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Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It’s a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
– Plato

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One never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
– Simone Weil

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It is not the chains that bind us, but the shadows we mistake for truth.
– Plato

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Most people are not looking for truth; they’re looking for a version of it that keeps them in the cave.
– Plato

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The cave is comfortable because it’s familiar, not because it’s real.
– Unknown

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Only those who venture out of the cave will ever see the stars.
– Carl Sagan

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You can’t force someone to leave the cave. They have to want to see the light for themselves.
– Anonymous

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Don’t let your comfort zone become your cave.
– Unknown

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Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.
– Suzy Kassem

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You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

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You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.
– Allison Maslan

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When life caves in, you do not need reasons — you need comfort. You do not need some answers — you need someone. And Jesus does not come to us with an explanation — He comes to us with His presence.
– Bob Benson

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
– Oscar Wilde

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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
– Rumi

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I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.
– Charlotte Rampling

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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
– A. J. P. Taylor

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I guess they say, Necessity is the mother of invention because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
– Viola Davis

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.
– Joseph Campbell

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Never forget where you came from. That’s what I think when I walk into a cave.
– Demetri Martin

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Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
– Farid al-Din Attar

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When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.
– Swami Vivekananda

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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
– Antonin Artaud

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If you are after truth, leave your cave!
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

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There’s this cave and all humanity is in it and there’s this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody’s afraid of it.
– Frederick Lenz

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Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don’t change.
– Robert Downey, Jr.

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The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that’s one less fighter on the side of fair.
– Libba Bray

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Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.
– Dean Koontz

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It doesn’t matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
– Paramahansa Yogananda

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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
– Joseph Campbell

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Caves are beautiful things you know. They’re thermostatically controlled – warm when it’s cold out and cool when it’s warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter – it was perfect. Also, because it’s a cave, you can’t do much with it.
– Tenzin Palmo

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There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it’s like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you’re afraid of entering it. It’s just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It’s like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.
– Stephen Fry

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There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say be yourself since you do not know yourself. Just be.
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
– Joseph Campbell

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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.
– Virginia Woolf

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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
– John C. Maxwell

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Sometimes, there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it. Like my heart’s going to cave in.
– Wes Bentley

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If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
– Eugene V. Debs

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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
– Khalil Gibran

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How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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Reality is not always as it seems.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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And if someone were to drag him forcibly out of the cave… would he not be distressed and annoyed at being dragged?
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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The truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes: either from coming out of the light or from going into the light.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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The process of enlightenment is painful.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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Better to be the poor servant of a poor master than to live and think as they do.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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The cave is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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When he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the den and his fellow-prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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Suppose once more that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he’s forced into the presence of the sun.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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The prisoners would say of him that he went up and came back without his eyes.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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The eye cannot turn from darkness to light without turning the whole body.
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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And when he came into the light, would he not have his eyes full of darkness?
– Plato (Allegory of the Cave)

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