Floating Quotes
394 quotes by 339 authors
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A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.
— Jack Johnson
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The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit…
— Robin McKinley
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I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's…
— Kristin Cashore
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Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
— Robin Hobb
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Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull,…
— Michael Cunningham
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How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many…
— Ben Sherwood
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‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours…
— John Green
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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.
— Markus Zusak
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He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long,…
— Charles Dickens
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He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to…
— Cornelia Funke
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Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and…
— Lauren Oliver
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The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat…
— Stephen King
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You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb…
— Douglas Coupland
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She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help…
— John Green
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Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your…
— Sara Zarr
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I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating…
— David Mitchell
Who Wrote These Floating Quotes
339 authors contributed a total of 394 Floating Quotes, led by these top contributors: