Bird Quote by Virginia Woolf

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the…

— Virginia Woolf

“All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back…

— Mary Butts

“At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a…

— Paul Bowles

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds…

— Daphne du Maurier

“ The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.

— Brian Jacques

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,…

— Yukio Mishima

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore;…

— Charles Dickens

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The…

— William Shakespeare

Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black…

— Stella Gibbons

“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through…

— H. Rider Haggard