Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

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
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city… — Clive Barker
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
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come?… — Thor Heyerdahl
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
People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years. — Ian Fleming
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
Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones,… — T.A. Barron
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

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