Asks Quote by Denise Levertov

“I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big…

— Charles de Lint

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we…

— Mary Oliver

“Stories let us see and hear and feel what someone else does,” she explained. “They build bridges to the other islands. That’s why stories…

— Cynthia Hand

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should…

— H. P. Lovecraft

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

— Rudyard Kipling

The fact is, we are not islands and we are far more connected than we know

— Anonymous

“We are akin to the inhabitants of a small isolated island who have just invented the first boat, and are about to set sail…

— Yuval Noah Harari

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores,…

— Tove Jansson

We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that…

— Tom Hiddleston

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

— David Whitehouse