Waves Quotes

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The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical… — Alessandro Baricco
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on… — Franny Billingsley
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There… — Anne Rice
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet… — John Steinbeck
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made… — William Trevor
What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially… — Kristin Cashore
I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price… — Eugene O'Neill
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the… — Rabindranath Tagore
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles… — Virginia Woolf
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses,… — Terry Tempest Williams
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… — Alice Munro
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to… — Gustave Flaubert
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces… — Sara Teasdale
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of… — John Steinbeck
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the worldâ€¦by getting so tuned in that we can… — Ken Kesey
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great… — Yann Martel
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints… — Khaled Hosseini
Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of foodâ€¦and were debt-free. Today we… — Thomas S. Monson

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