Best Swamps Quotations
109 Swamps quotes by 96 unique authors
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...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
— Dean Koontz
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Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two…
— Douglas Adams
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i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
— Marilyn Hacker
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One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been…
— Henry Miller
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With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a…
— Patrick Süskind
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Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a…
— Nancy Werlin
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I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.
— Josh Lanyon
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If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of…
— Tori Amos
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If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with…
— Hélder Câmara
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I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing,…
— Patrick Ness
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Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If you need some…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and spent, oh I…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No brush or paint…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
— Carson McCullers
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Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit…
— Ben Elton
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Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're…
— Karen Marie Moning
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How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And I was a…
— P. C. Cast
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Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up…
— Tove Jansson
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