Life Quote by Charles Dickens

“The men stood back, chanting a song of one who would not be forgotten, of loved ones lost and returned to the earth, and…

— Deanna Raybourn

“I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will…

— Jeanette Winterson

“There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Standing on the shore, I prayed for my dead. I praised them. I stupidly hoped that the lake would heal my small wounds. Then…

— Sherman Alexie

“...the water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying, is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint…

— John Ruskin

“He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a desperate thirst; he buried his head…

— Orson Scott Card

“Then suddenly, months of patience suffering gave way to anger. His heart cried out savagely to its maker, insisting upon being heard. – If…

— Sylvia Waugh

“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty that has…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what was dead…

— Oscar Wilde

“He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.”

— Sarah Winter

“The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in…

— Denis Johnson