Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island — Neil Gaiman
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is… — John Muir
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island. — Christopher Moore
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of… — Neil Gaiman
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell
I've never even been to Long Island — Meg Cabot
And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me. — Laurie Anderson
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate… — Bernard Malamud
My one-time roommate Claire had inherited the house from her uncle, and when she went off to bigger and better things, she’d left it in… — Karen Chance
I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I… — Paul Simon
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure… — James M. Barrie
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that… — Richard Dawkins
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story… — Stephen King
By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned… — Cassandra Clare
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he… — Margaret Atwood
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or… — Daniel Handler
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we… — Jose Saramago
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. — Albert Einstein
Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater… — Clive Cussler
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is… — Sophie Scholl

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