Waves Quotes

879 quotes by 687 authors

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for… — J M Coetzee
Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The world needs you.… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their… — Haruki Murakami
Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldnâ€™t think you needed to set out to retrieve them… — Deb Caletti
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there… — Madeleine L'Engle
Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make… — Sarah Dessen
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw… — Virginia Woolf
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. — Amanda Hocking
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop. — Sue Monk Kidd
The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before… — Morgan Llywelyn
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not… — Carl Sagan
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves,… — Hermann Hesse
Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,… — Virginia Woolf
The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
When your fight has purposeâ€”to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocentâ€”it has a hope of finality. When the fight… — Tea Obreht
Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow,… — Susanna Kearsley
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from secret… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves,… — H P Lovecraft

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