Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the… — Roberto Bolano
The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of… — Douglas Adams
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. — J D Salinger
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Alec flushed. "I think it's more important for you to go than me. You're Valentine's son, I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants… — Cassandra Clare
I'm not so sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from… — Cassandra Clare
I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at… — Daniel Handler
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!… — David Mitchell
Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life. — Lauren Conrad
...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real. — Sylvia Plath
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us — Maggie Stiefvater
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now… — Terry Pratchett
It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if… — Zadie Smith
Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a… — Anneli Rufus
From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping. — Pablo Neruda
Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched… — Lauren DeStefano
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a… — Bruno Latour
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care. — Charlaine Harris
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are… — Winston Churchill
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing… — John Muir
Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella — Stephenie Meyer
There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer… — Libba Bray

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