Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and… — John Ashbery
The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was… — Lucy Christopher
The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a… — Lucy Christopher
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and… — Arthur C. Clarke
The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. — Nicholas Sparks
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course,… — Karen Armstrong
His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard… — Paul Valery
I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times… — Neil Gaiman
People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These… — David Levithan
The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing… — Cassandra Clare
I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist. — Kiersten White
My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it. — Kiersten White
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while… — Dan Brown
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You were right, Hale. It was a bad job. It was a bad call. You were right to leave." "Kat..." Hale tried to reach for… — Ally Carter
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. — Neil Gaiman
When I write this in bed, I can almost hear the echo of the wind over the sand, or the groans of wooden panels around… — Lucy Christopher
The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet… — Christopher Paolini
Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away. — E L Doctorow
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace. — Margaret Atwood

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