--- title: "7 Water Thought Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Water Thought quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Water Thought sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/jim-harrison-2941_swim_perhaps-swimming-was-dancing-in-the-wate_43642.jpg" --- > [“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-harrison/perhaps-swimming-was-dancing-in-the-water-he-thought-to-swim-under/) [Jim Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-harrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/jim-harrison-2941_swim_perhaps-swimming-was-dancing-in-the-wate_43642.jpg) > [“I thought. I thought of the slow yellow autumn in the swamp and the high honey sun of spring and the eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rivers-siddons/i-thought-i-thought-of-the-slow-yellow-autumn-in-the-swamp-and-the/) [Anne Rivers Siddons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rivers-siddons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/anne-rivers-siddons-11061_nature_i-thought-i-thought-of-the-slow-yellow-a_832058.jpg) > [“Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/anything-could-be-true-the-so-called-laws-of-nature-were-nonsense-the/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/700/george-orwell-57_1984_anything-could-be-true-the-so-called-law_1366535.jpg) > [When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/assata-shakur/when-i-was-a-child-if-someone-had-talked-to-me-about-buying-water-i/) [Assata Shakur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/assata-shakur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cc/assata-shakur-2554_buying_when-i-was-a-child-if-someone-had-talked_1643989.png) > [“The man exhaled and wondered. He thought about the squid, and he thought about summers divested of chill and abundant with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought-about-the-squid-and-he/) [Kirk Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-marshall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg) > [“you will need an infinite patience to learn again to love as not long ago a fire lost in the distance halting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorand-gaspar/you-will-need-an-infinite-patience-to-learn-again-to-love-as-not-long/) [Lorand Gaspar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorand-gaspar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2d/lorand-gaspar-65866_long-ago_you-will-need-an-infinite-patience-to-le_2184795.jpg) > [“Dear god today I saw the neighbor shovel snow into the sea big shovels of snow that just melted away water turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nils-ivind-haagensen/dear-god-today-i-saw-the-neighbor-shovel-snow-into-the-sea-big/) [Nils-Øivind Haagensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nils-ivind-haagensen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f74/nils-ivind-haagensen-61381_dear-god_dear-god-today-i-saw-the-neighbor-shovel_3113037.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/water-thought/#itemlist", "name": "Water Thought Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature turtles, to swim in small lakes, big lakes, Lake Michigan, to swim in small farm ponds, creeks, rivers, giant rivers where one was swept along easefully by the current, to swim naked alone at night when you were nineteen and so alone you felt like you were choking every waking moment, having left home for reasons more hormonal than rational; reasons having to do with the abstraction of the future and one's questionable place in the world of the future, an absurdity not the less harsh for being so widespread.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jim Harrison" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-harrison/perhaps-swimming-was-dancing-in-the-water-he-thought-to-swim-under/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/jim-harrison-2941_swim_perhaps-swimming-was-dancing-in-the-wate_43642.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/jim-harrison-2941_swim_perhaps-swimming-was-dancing-in-the-wate_43642.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae1/jim-harrison-2941_swim_perhaps-swimming-was-dancing-in-the-wate_43642.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. 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I thought of the clop of horses' feet on cobblestones and the soft, sulking, wallowing surf of Sullivan's Island in August, and the countless small vistas of grace and charm wherever the eye fell; a garden door, a peeling old wall, an entire symmetrical world caught in a windowpane. Charlestone simply could not manage to offend the eye. I thought of the candy colors of the old houses in the sunset, and the dark secret churchyards with their tumbled stones, and the puresweet bells of Saint Michael's in the Sunday morning stillness. I thought of my tottering piles of books in the study at Belleau and the nights before the fire when my father told me of stars and butterflies and voyages, and the silver music of mathematics. 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But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens. He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak. He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions -- 'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water' -- and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as 'two and two make five' were beyond his intellectual grasp. 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He thought about domestic sounds smote to dark corners in dim rooms as vast and terrestrial as forsaken landscape, sounds that should not ever be pursued and evicted from this hillside house, sounds that had as much utility and purpose as the wood fashioned to stabilise the house, sounds who proved the most generous tenants he could have ever invited to share the burdensome wealth of his privacy, sounds who left like friends do when they mean not to return, without word or signal or symbol, but with the cruelty of caprice and the loveless whispers of memories receding to a breakwater of ruin. He thought about how sad he had become, and how ugly, and how fast. He thought about all the mornings covertly spoiled by a ramshackle attack of tears, he thought about the immeasurable distance from his house on its hill to the first forge of shoreline by the bay, he thought about the dialogue of terns and the sordid mystery of snow, but he fell asleep thinking about summers ended and the squid, at rest in a shoebox in the bathroom.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kirk Marshall" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-marshall/the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought-about-the-squid-and-he/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kirk-marshall-45867_quote_the-man-exhaled-and-wondered-he-thought_2084892.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The man exhaled and wondered. 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