Torrent Quotes

66 Torrent quotes by 55 unique authors

Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say… — Marcel Proust
It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. — Jack Kerouac
[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he… — Jean-Paul Sartre
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Mel Brooks
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a… — Alfred Noyes
I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus,… — John Milton
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened… — Charlotte Bronte
When I fully enter timeâ€™s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the… — Ann Voskamp
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. — Charles Caleb Colton
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the worldÂ’s torrent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out… — C S Forester
As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to… — Todd Gitlin
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard… — James Beattie
The rain pours down washing away the summer sweat and grit. Ah let me dance in the rain...and wash away all that troubles me. Let… — Unknown Author

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