Quote by Haruki Murakami

“nonsense? Yet as it collapsed, it did not take the calm or sense of mastery with it; they remained. They had built a boat,…

— Greg Bear

“I forced my way to the brink, stepped into the boat, pushed it, with the help of the tree-branches, out into the stream, lay…

— George MacDonald

“We steer the boat, we don’t alter the river.”

— J. Earp

“You drown not by falling in the river but by staying submerged in it.”

— Paulo Coelho

“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of the transitoriness…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time, but in the great rapids and the winding shallows, no boat is…

— Ann VanderMeer

“Don't force the river to flow. It will flow on its own.”

— Chinese proverb

“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same. The foam that floats in the pools Now gathering, now…

— Kamo no Chōmei

“The river can go back over the past and bring it all up and spit it out on the banks in full view of…

— Paula Hawkins

“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be…

— David Wroblewski

“It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The river winds blow, Giving the surface no plan Of how to proceed.”

— David Cope