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Water Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid…
- Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the…
- I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,'…
- I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can…
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