130 Best window quotes - Uplift Life Quotes

Here, we listed the best 130 window quotes to inspire you and make you positive. Those window quotes give a lot of positive energy and change your point of view on life. It must be life-changing for you all and hope you will enjoy it. It is collected from spiritual, political, motivational, and self-coaching leaders.

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1.”My favorite journey is looking out the window.” -Edward Gorey

2.“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.” ― Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.” -Rumi (window quotes)

4. “The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.” -Andrew Sarris

5. “A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.” -Dejan Stojanovic

6. “Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.” -Karl Pilkington (window quotes)

7. “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

8. “May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. -Franz Kafka

9. “A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.” -Mavis Gallant (window quotes)

10. “It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!” -Mehmet Murat ildan

11. “A library doesn’t need windows. A library is a window.” -Stewart Brand

12. “What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.” -Vernon Howard

13. “Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned–in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

14. “There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.” -Robin Williams

15. “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” -Rogers Hornsby (window quotes)

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“Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room!” -Yosa Buson

17. “A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” -Denis Waitley (window quotes)

18. “We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can see the city and the train line and it’s beautiful in its own dangerous way. Dangerous because it’s shared and taken and fought for. That’s the best way I can put it, and thinking about it, when I walk past the tiny houses on our street, I wonder about the stories inside them. I wonder hard, because houses must have walls and rooftops for a reason. My only query is the windows. Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out?” ― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

19. “In my head, there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.” -Samuel Beckett

20. “All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.” -Malcolm Muggeridge

21. “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” – Walt Whitman (window quotes)

22. “Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.” -Desmond Tutu

23. “That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind. “-Deepak Chopra (window quotes)

24. “Never hesitate to open new windows in your life!” -Mehmet Murat Ildan

25. “Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the spotlights of street lamps. It was the kind of night when you might expect to see a skeleton flying through the air, its ragged black shroud flapping in the wind.” ― Dan Chaon, Stay Awake

26. “Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.” -Henry Ward Beecher

27. “The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.” -Harold Klemp (window quotes)

28. “Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.” -Henry James

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“You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.” -Frederick Lenz

30. “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” -Walt Whitman

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31. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” -William Shakespeare

32. “Ah, mighty uncertainty!” said the doctor. “Have you thought of all the doors that have shut at night and opened again? Of women who have looked about with lamps, like you, and who have scurried on fast feet? Like a thousand mice they go this way and that, now fast, now slow, some halting behind doors, some trying to find the stairs, all approaching or leaving their misplaced mouse-meat that lies in some cranny, on some couch, down on some floor, behind some cupboard; and all the windows, great and small, from which love and fear have peered, shining and in tears. Put those windows end to end and it would be a casement that would reach around the world; and put those thousand eyes into one eye and you would have the night combed with the great blind searchlight of the heart.” ― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood.

33. “An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

34. “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.” -Ray Bradbury

35. “When life closes a door, God opens a window.” -Paul Smith (window quotes)

36. “One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying… If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?” -Adyashanti

37. “All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.” -Fernando Pessoa

38. “When a window closes another one opens.” -apl.de.ap (window quotes)

39. “The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul.” -Ondjaki

40. “The windows of the houses – even if the house is ramshackle – are always beautiful because windows represent light!” -Mehmet Murat ildan

41. “Out here are books and magazines- asleep, carrying the entire world in them, and standing there are walls and windows, staring at me, and leaves of letters here– about to go melting quite like the heart itself,
and photographs– lost in themselves as if- they’re thinking of someone.” ― Suman Pokhrel

42. “Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.” -Lucian Blaga (window quotes)

43. “If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.” -Tom Peters

44. “There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.” -Robin Williams

45. “What light through yonder window breaks?” -William Shakespeare

46. “An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.” -William Makepeace Thackeray

47. “There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.” -Arthur Conan Doyle

48. “Windows 10 has been a nightmare for computer hardware manufacturers, as it can make perfectly good hardware appear to be faulty.” ― Steven Magee

49. “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single ‪window.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (window quotes)

50. “Keep passing the open windows.” -John Irving

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51. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.” ― Rudine Sims Bishop

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“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” -Mark Twain

53. “Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don’t have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.” -Merle Shain

54. “Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.” ― Bill Gates

55. “We all need to have a creative outlet – a window, a space – so we don’t lose track of ourselves.” -Zoketsu Norman Fischer (window quotes)

56. “Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” -George Bernard Shaw

57. “I went ‪window shopping today! I bought four windows.” – Tommy Cooper

58. “I discovered windows one afternoon and after that, nothing was ever the same.” ― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

59. “And what is more generous than a window?” -Pat Schneider

60. “Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.” -Nicholas Sparks

61. “I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.” -Confucius (window quotes)

62. “The Eyes are the window to your soul.” -William Shakespeare

63. “Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.” -Oscar Wilde

64. “Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.” -Marcus Aurelius

65. “Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.” -Angelina Jolie (window quotes)

66. “I have always loved a window, especially an open one.” -Wendell Berry

67. “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.” -Khalil Gibran

68. “Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (window quotes)

69. “Give me a window and I’ll stare out it. ” -Alan Rickman

70. “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.” -Brooke Shields

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71. “Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.” -Martha Ronk

72. “Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looked out the windows which hope has opened.” -Charles Spurgeon (window quotes)

73. “There is a window from one heart to another heart.” -Rumi

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“Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak.” -Rumi

75. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” -Herbert Hoover

76. “Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” -Tom Lehrer

77. “Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky (window quotes)

78. “The window of opportunity opens and closes as fast as a camera’s shutter.” -Warren Criswell

79. “Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It’s almost a form of cognitive dissonance.” -Moby

80. “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” -Edith Wharton (window quotes)

81. “I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.” -Bill Withers

82. “If it’s reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.” -Peter Stamm

83. “You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.” -Frank Lloyd Wright

84. “I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.” -Rabindranath Tagore

85. “I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.” -Pablo Neruda

86. “I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted. The experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.” -Frederic Joliot-Curie

87. “A pessimist doesn’t see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.” -Jim Rohn (window quotes)

88. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”-Dale Carnegie

89. “If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window! ” -Mehmet Murat ildan

90. “I stare out the window and wait for spring.” -Rogers Hornsby (window quotes)

91. “Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.” -George Bernard Shaw

92. “Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.” -Carl Sandburg

93. “I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.” -Alfred Eisenstaedt

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“Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart you can win over any man with just your smell.” -Siddharth Katragadda

95. “I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.” -Tommy Cooper (window quotes)

96. “All the windows of my heart I open to the day.” -John Greenleaf Whittier

97. “The windows of my soul are made of one way glass, don’t bother looking into my eyes If there’s something you want to know just ask.” -Ani DiFranco

98. “There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as ‘form’ to literature. It strongly defines its content.” -Max Beerbohm (window quotes)

99. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney J. Harris

100. “Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world;
nor could the world see the man within.” -Lady Bird Johnson

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101. “If the door is locked, try the window.” -Lynn Caine (window quotes)

102. “Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven.” -George Harrison

103. “I sometimes say to people, “I am a window frame – no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.” -Eckhart Tolle (window quotes)

104. “A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” -Anais Nin

105. “There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.” -Tom DeLonge

106. “If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.” -Tom Peters

107. “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.” -George Orwell

108. “Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.”
― Charles Baudelaire (window quotes)

109. “The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.” -Harold Klemp

110. “I removed the window because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time.” -Angelina Jolie

111. “To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.” -Thomas Huxley

112. “Sometimes the best of gods gift’s arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.” -Paulo Coelho (window quotes)

113. “I’m not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person’s gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough.” ― Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking

114. “Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

115. “Windows mean light, wisdom means Windows!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

116. “The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun.” -John Greenleaf Whittier (window quotes)

117. “A house without books is like a room without windows.” -Horace Mann

118.“They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.” ― Raymond Carver, Cathedral

119. “Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney J. Harris

120. “Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.” -Amit Ray (window quotes)

121. “It’s like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.” -Haruki Murakami

122. “A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.” -Saul Leiter (window quotes)

123. “He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on an autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.” -Henry James

124. “I stare out at the real world projected on the windows” ― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

125. “If I were a physician I would try my patients thus. I would wheel them to a window and let Nature feel their pulse. It will soon appear if their sensuous existence is sound. The sounds are but the throbbing of some pulse in me.” – Henry Thoreau

126. “Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!” -Mehmet Murat ildan (window quotes)

127. “Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out of the window.” -Henry James

128. “Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, “Lighthouses” as the poet said “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (window quotes)

129. “If hearts are our homes, why do we let others break windows and throw stones? “-Melissa Anderson

130. “Out my window. I see everything I dream about and wished I had.” -Kevin Gates (window quotes)