Quote by Takuboku Ishikawa

“Growing older was like a mist silently drifting across the sea.”

— Henning Mankell

“Looking out toward the open water she thought they could have floated in time, landed anywhere in the last thousand years.”

— Ellen Airgood

“Since we are sinking, let us sink. We can die but once.”

— Alexander Dumas

“You flounder through life, struggling desperately so you won't drown, even though you would float if you'd just relax.”

— Natsuki Takaya

“Tossed By Waves, She Does Not Sink.”

— Lauren Kate

“God’s Blood, have we truly become old? he wondered. I do not feel old. I feel the same, but . . . weathered. Like a ship that…

— Tad Williams

“When the river rises, sometimes the only thing to do is float.”

— Redden Sanders

“Floating gently at the bottom of the ocean, I With waving weeds, sway, asleep”

— Eesha Kumar

“I couldn’t fight the tide, so I decided to float along.”

— David Levithan

“If I fall in, I’m going to drown. The weights upon me are too heavy to stay afloat. My only option is to sink.”

— Katie McGarry

“It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks,…

— Ken Davis

“All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years…

— Lord Dunsany