Box Quotes

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
― Allyson Braithwaite Condie, First Day

“I've been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy,' I said. 'Do you know what that means?'
'It means you're a freak,' he said.
'It means that you're about as important to me as a cardboard box,' I said. 'You're just a thing - a piece of garbage that no one's thrown away yet. Is that what you want me to say?'
'Shut up,' said Rob. He was still acting tough, but I could see his bluster was starting to fail. He didn't know what to say.
'The thing about boxes,' I said, 'is that you can open them up. Even though they're completely boring on the outside, there might be something interesting inside. So while you're saying all of these stupid, boring things I'm imagining what it would be like to cut you open and see what you've got in there.”
― Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer

“The rain battered the cottage. Valkyrie risked a look up at Skulduggery.
“What is it?” she whispered.
“It’s a box,” he whispered back.
“What kind of box?”
“A wooden one.”
She gave him a look.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a story and turn into an "empty box". Out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness remains then merely wishfull thinking. ( "Everybody his story" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Do not define me by my gender or my socio-economic status, Noah Willis. Do not tell me who I am and do not tell me who society thinks I am and then put me in that box and expect me to stay there. Because, I swear to God, I will climb the hell out of that box and I will take that box you've just put me in and I will use that box to smash your face in until you're nothing more than a freckly, bloodied pulp. You got that, sweet cheeks?”
― Megan Jacobson, Yellow

“Never give up on the fight until you win the belt.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Any refuge that I create is something akin to a cardboard box in the rain. The harder the rain, the more boxes I go through.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“There is no box. Only the one you put yourself in. You can do whatever you want. If you say you can’t, that is your choice. Choose better.”
― Richie Norton

“It seems like we are choosing to became a generation of using big words to box, manipulate, degrade, dehumanize and to abuse other people. Especially if those are not doing what we like or what we want. E.g ( a real man must do this or a real women must do this). We are projecting our thoughts and experiences to others and trying to position them ,the way we want them. Let's choose to respect other people opinions, choices , preferences, lifestyle and life.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“My decisions staunchly preserve the box within which I live, when I should be pushing out the walls of that very box so that I can begin to live.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. Is it Reinhart’s? Is it Thistleton’s? Or is it yours? Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? No. For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“A box splits the world in two, differentiating what’s inside of the box from what’s outside of it. And from an organizational perspective that can be very helpful until the contents within and the stuff without forget that they’re part of the same world.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t put me in a box until I’m dead.”
― Richie Norton

“The farther that you think outside of the box, the more effort people will make to put you in one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes, [gift] with depth is all.

Memory.”
― Monaristw

“Pervasiveness. Unlike pessimists who let their doubts and troubles affect every area of their lives, optimists are able to put their problems in a “box” and not let them distract them.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“Corners are not where you want to be in a box.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I sent a box from Hawaii to the Canary Islands and it took six months for it to get there with an expensive import fee!”
― Steven Magee

“My tidy and well-appointed box might be ‘my’ world, but it will never be ‘the’ world.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“This week God clearly told me to get out of my boxes. And I rather quickly discovered that trading my current box for a bigger one was not what He meant.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can spend the whole of your life moving to increasingly larger ‘boxes.’ However, while you might have relocated, you never moved.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You must think outside the box, Luna.”
― Teri Terry

“The FBI is a black box, you file a report to them and you never hear back. You hope that they do a reasonable job on investigating your report.”
― Steven Magee

“Life might assign you some role but it will never assign you your destiny, for life will always try to fit you into a box of convenience while destiny realizes that there is no such thing as a box of convenience.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Love is like a box of chocolates. Take one bite and the craving lasts long enough for the whole box to be eaten.”
― Dina Husseini

“Chodba bola plná triumfov. Ich triumfov. Ja som medzi
nich nepatrila. Bola som žena.”
― Claudia P. Torkan, Stratená v nenávisti

“I didn't want to be with someone who put me in a box. I was far too skilled at doing that to myself. I wanted someone who showed me I could break out of it then helped me do it and supported me as I did. Someone who wouldn't, as Tanner had pointed out, run away when I tried to climb back into it, but would help me be my best even when I couldn't see what that meant.”
― Becky Dean, Hearts Overboard