Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces… — Arundhati Roy
nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be… — Margaret Wise Brown
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing… — Thomas Paine
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and… — Henry David Thoreau
No man is an island... — Nick Hornby
As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say… — Woody Guthrie
They can't hurt me. Sure, they can crush you and kill you. They can lay you out on 42nd and Broadway and put hoses on… — Bob Dylan
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it… — J M Coetzee
I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death… — Yann Martel
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot.… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with… — Blaise Pascal
I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about… — Sloane Crosley
Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a… — Jostein Gaarder
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. — Jeffrey Eugenides
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write. — Eric Weiner
So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much… — Rick Riordan
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as… — Lawrence Durrell
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding… — Daniel Handler
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same… — Chuck Palahniuk
Every island to a child is a treasure island. — P.D. James
Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island — Neil Gaiman
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. — Christopher Moore

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