130 Tunnel Quotes

Following is our list of tunnel quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about light after the tunnel.

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Famous Tunnel Quotes

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through. — David Allen

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. — Stuart Pearce

I see light at the end of the tunnel. — Walt Whitman Rostow

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. — Charles Barkley

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. — Steven Tyler

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. - Stanley Crouch

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. — Stanley Crouch

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself. — Sara Henderson

To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train. — Joan Rivers

Every wall is a door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. — Lao Tzu

Any port in a storm. — Scottish Proverbs

But the first thing that we have to do is to say, “I walk towards the tunnel, and I’m on my own, and I’m not afraid. And I have no regrets. — Sayings

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things. — Edmond Jabes

A bridge is just a road that's brave as f*ck. — Theo Von

Short Tunnel Quotes

  • I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard. — Cam Newton
  • I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel. — Ryne Sandberg
  • As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is. — George Carlin
  • Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel. — Don Rickles
  • I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision. — Lemmy Kilmister
  • Both are salty, one will give me carpal tunnel, I'll go with the fries. — Iliza Shlesinger
  • There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train. — Margaret Smith
  • Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. — J. Patrick Lewis
  • People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life. — Felix Dennis
  • Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. — Robert Townsend

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Through The Tunnel Quotes

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help! — Robert H. Schuller

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel. — Victor Cruz

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. — Demi Lovato

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them. — Lauren Oliver

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. — Ezra Cornell

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel. — Robert Klein

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. — Henry David Thoreau

You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a guy going through the front door. All of those, in cyber terms, are vulnerabilities, because it's not that you have to look for one hole of a specific type. It's the whole paradigm. — Edward Snowden

Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn't mean it's easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near. — Aaron Rowand

Light In The Tunnel Quotes

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel. — Ron Howard

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train. — Paul Dickson

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. — Francesca Lia Block

There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline. — John Podhoretz

At last there is light at the end of the tunnel. — Joseph Alsop

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it. — Sarah Barthel

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel. — Emir Kusturica

When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light in front of you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The reward is the finished product, for me that is my light at the end of the tunnel. What comes together in the end is why I do this [shoot commercials], it's why I write so many ideas and spend so much time thinking of ideas and so on and so forth. — Jon Jon Augustavo

People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go. — Vaclav Havel

Dark Tunnel Quotes

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one. — Harold Larwood

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine. — Lauren Oliver

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. — Graham Greene

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it. — Emily Haines

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit — Dan Brown

Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? — Pablo Neruda

Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did! — Ai Qing

Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director. — Colin Farrell

We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2. — Wes Jackson

End Of The Tunnel Quotes

Learn from this, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I'll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me. — Kid Cudi

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. — John Quinton

Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now. — Brian Robertson

Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually. — Paulo Coelho

It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light. — James Arthur Ray

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable. — Joyce Carol Oates

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train. — Robert Lowell

Everybody is going to have a point in their life when they can’t see any brightness at the end of the tunnel…but there always is…you just have to keep on fighting. — Kyle Maynard

When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect. — Nancy Reagan

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel. — Sydney J. Harris

Light At The End Of The Tunnel Quotes

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. — Ian Botham

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train. — James Russell Lowell

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters. — Emily Blunt

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. — David Lee Roth

It's the light of the oncoming train. — Robert Lowell

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming. — James Arthur Ray

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is. — Lyndon B. Johnson

There is a light at the end of the tunnel but first you'll have to find the light switch and change the bulb before switching it on yourself. No problem, as targets of bullying are picked on for their competence and abilities. — Tim Field

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! — Mariah Carey

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

Tunnel Vision Quotes

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. — Chris Evert

Drivers don't always see the (flashing) lights. You can't get tunnel vision. You've got to look everywhere, even when your adrenaline is going. — Sixto Rodriguez

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options. — Simon Sinek

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal. — Johnny Galecki

There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. — Wolfgang Gullich

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it. — Nicola Peltz

Tunnel vision can kill creativity. — Ami Vitale

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision. — Nick Cassavetes

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing. — John Zorn

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery. — Nolan Ryan

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More Tunnel Quotes

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission. — Robert Anton Wilson

The idea for 'Awakened' came to me one night on my long commute home to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The subway station was empty and eerily quite, and I could barely see into the darkened tunnel ahead. The further I peered, the darker the tunnel became. I wondered what could live in there... or under there. — James Murray

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country. — Annie Jacobsen

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel. — James D. Watson

On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels. — Helen Garner

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. — Camille Paglia

A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser. — Jay Leno

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science. — James Gleick

The Operation Hardtack II nuclear test series would prove even bigger than Plumbbob, in terms of the number of tests. From September 12 to October 30, 1958, an astonishing thirty-seven nuclear bombs were exploded – from tops of tall towers, in tunnels and shafts, on the surface of the earth, and hanging from balloons. Areas 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, and 15 served as ground zero for the detonations, all within eighteen miles of Area 51. — Annie Jacobsen

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. — Langston Hughes

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more. — Ayrton Senna

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person. — Steve Jobs

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