Waves Quotes
879 quotes by 687 authors
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It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
— Fiona Apple
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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I…
— Maya Angelou
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How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We…
— Julian Barnes
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And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous…
— Che Guevara
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Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into…
— Kim Edwards
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As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an…
— J R Ward
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The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves…
— Haruki Murakami
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If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic,…
— Anita Diament
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid…
— Pablo Neruda
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Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most…
— David Foster Wallace
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Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach…
— Nicole Krauss
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What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or…
— Edmund Spenser
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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every…
— Alan Watts
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,…
— Edmund Spenser
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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was…
— Ian Mcewan
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Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight,…
— Patrick Ness
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Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m
— John Lennon
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