Labyrinth meaning

Noun: labyrinth

Pronunciation: (la-bu-rinth)

Labyrinth meaning:

1. Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost. Synonym: maze
2. A complex system of interconnecting cavities, concerned with hearing and equilibrium. Synonyms: inner ear, internal ear

Quotations: Jorge Luis Borges – Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.

Pierre Boulez – The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distils his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.

Marcel Marceau – I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

John Wesley Powell – You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

Susan Sontag – This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.

Sample sentences:

1. Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.
2. They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
3. Oh these deceits are strong almost as life, last night I dreamt I was in the labyrinth, and woke far on. I did not know the place.
4. To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
5. A lot of staff uses the labyrinth as well, to relieve stress and get exercise.