Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over…

— Norman Maclean

“The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then all at…

— Stephen Mitchell

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

— Georges Rodenbach

“But out of all secrets of the river, he today only saw one, this one touched his soul. He saw: this water ran and…

— Hermann Hesse

“The river narrowed, quickened, its surface trembling like the eyes of dreamers.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“The same river can never be crossed twice. The flowing water has no memory of footprints.”

— Robert R. McCammon

“Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which…

— Lois Lowry

“At their very feet had been the river. The boat came breasting out of the mist, and in they stepped. All new things in…

— Eudora Welty

“...and the sound of her low voice seemed to have the accompaniment of all the other sounds, full of mystery, desolation, and sorrow, I…

— Joseph Conrad

“I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously…

— George Saunders

“..if you put enough raindrops together you have a river.”

— Frances Carpenter