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Water Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his…
- The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother…
- I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that…
- It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.
- When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath.…
- I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above…
- The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and…
- I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near…
- I could feel tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.
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