Swans Quotes

119 Swans quotes by 92 unique authors

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that… — D. H. Lawrence
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you… — Bonnie Raitt
The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her… — Orlando Gibbons
I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I… — Katie Leung
Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad… — Katie Leung
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms… — Lord Byron
I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it… — John O'Donohue
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial
Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the… — William Shakespeare
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan. — Juvenal
Sweet meat must have sour sauce. — Ben Jonson
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. — Heinrich Heine
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail… — Heinrich Heine
It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a… — Sathya Sai Baba
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry… — Phineas Fletcher
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold
Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ...… — Woody Allen
Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move… — Ryan Bingham
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write)… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. — Henry Miller

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