Staircase Quotes

“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.”
― Munia Khan

“It is incredible what kind of mess I can make
with a nine-hour drive and an unanswered text.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

“Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.”
― Robert Brault

“People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: Esprit de l'escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer, but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party…

As you start down the stairway, then -- magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put-down.

That's the Spirit of the Stairway.

The trouble is even the French don't have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure. Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.

Some deeds are too low to even get a name. Too low to even get talked about.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Guts

“You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is as incomplete and imperfect without difficulties, as a rose without a staircase of thorns.”
― Dr. Anhad Kaur Suri

“I'm an old creaky staircase when I wake up.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“One cold November, I resolved to kill the staircase spawn... ("Staircase Man" by Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam)”
― Arthur K. Flam, 41 Strange

“The best way to make an abandoned staircase happy is to walk on its steps!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If the step that I am on becomes the plane upon which I live, I will soon forget that no single step is ever a staircase.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“LEGACIES BECOME STAIRS OR
TOMBSTONES DEPENDING ON
WHICH WAY THE STONE LIES.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“If you want to thank a stairs sincerely, you have to thank each step of it individually, because what makes the stairs a stairs is the whole of its steps!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

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― Metal Railings

“When going down the stairs, if there is a strong wind blowing from below, it might be useful to think this: Maybe the universe wants you to go up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Those who barely climb the difficult stairs today will be able to climb the more difficult stairs much easier tomorrow!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In politics the important thing is to be applauded while going down the stairs, not going up the stairs!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The first step to be taken in order to overcome a difficulty is so important and so valuable that the other steps do not matter much!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Remember, the ladder won't get you up unless you go up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Those who think the steps are for sitting have never been able to go up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The staircase seemed much longer going up than coming down. Perhaps that was always the way in a fairy world. The man she had ransomed, the man she needed, had his arm locked around hers. They leaned against each other, shoulder against shoulder, two humans in a place where no humans should ever have come. When Marra looked over at him in the sickly firefly light, she could see a silvery terror in his eyes, mastered but very much alive. Bonedog walked beside them, Marra's hand wrapped around the rope collar. She felt the illusion of fur against her fingers, except when she didn't and he briefly felt like bones.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Inside, it was even more opulent. Black-and-white checkered marble shone at my feet, flowing to countless doors and a sweeping staircase. A long hall stretched ahead to the giant glass doors at the other end of the house, and through them I glimpsed a second garden, grander than the one out front. No sign of a dungeon- no shouts or pleas rising up from hidden chambers below. No, just the low growl from a nearby room, so deep that it rattled the vases overflowing with fat clusters of hydrangeas atop the scattered hall tables.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Crucifying the body on the altars of our carnal desires requires staircase attitude of making right choices moment after moment to those small things that build up to greatness”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Even a staircase you don't like will bring you down or up! Concentrate on usefulness, not on likes or dislikes! Look at the world from a humble and positive perspective!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometimes you want to go down, but you come across a steep staircase leading up; sometimes you want to go up, but you come across a staircase going down! Don't give up, don't turn back! The descending staircase stands ahead of the ascending staircase; the stairs going up are ahead of the stairs going down! The biggest obstacle for you throughout life is giving up on something quickly and turning back!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan