Waters Quotes
695 Waters quotes by 507 unique authors
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and…
— Khalil Gibran
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Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has…
— Thomas Merton
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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
— William Shakespeare
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Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the…
— William P. Young
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There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
— Betty Smith
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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know…
— Mitch Albom
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be…
— Jane Austen
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Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going…
— Suzanne Collins
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(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind…
— Alfred de Musset
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i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me
— Helen Dunmore
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We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
— Wilkie Collins
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I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
— Gustave Flaubert
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still waters run deep. ~Tabitha
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste…
— Jon Krakauer
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Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of…
— Vikram Seth
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It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know…
— Octavio Paz
Who Wrote These Waters Quotes
507 authors contributed a total of 695 Waters Quotes, led by these top contributors: