Flood Quotes

474 Flood quotes by 388 unique authors

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. — Sherman Alexie
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry… — Nicholas Sparks
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of… — Leonard Cohen
And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink… — Nicholas Sparks
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s… — Aidan Chambers
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking… — Saul Williams
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not… — Dalai Lama
She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers… — Henry Miller
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep… — Dorothy Parker
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor. — Emily Dickinson
When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate… — Dan Brown
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears. — William Shakespeare
Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and… — Patricia McCormick
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground… — Haruki Murakami
I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness. — Lady Gaga
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to… — H.G. Wells
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave… — James Patterson
A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope. — Jay Asher
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day… — Alejandro Jodorowsky

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