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Water Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.…
- In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
- The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under…
More Water Quotes
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams