Quotes

 

"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time."

 

― Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

"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 rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by water."

 

― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

 

 

"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

 

― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

 

 

"I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea."

 

―Pablo Neruda

 

 

"It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things."

 

― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

 

 

"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."

 

― Wallace Stevens

 

 

"Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."

 

― Martin Luther King Jr.

 

 

 

"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."

 

― Khalil Gibran

 

 

 

"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."

 

― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

 

 

"High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water."

 

― Mark Twain

 

 

"Life in us is like the water in a river."

 

― Henry David Thoreau

 

 

"Water is the driving force in nature."

 

― Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

"People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water."

 

― Akira Kurosawa, Yume

 

 

"Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface."

 

― Santosh Kalwar

 

 

"I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both."

 

― Jessi Kirby, Moonglass

 

 

"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."

 

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

 

 

"A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable."

 

― William Wordsworth

 

 

 "The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

 

― Joseph Conrad

 

 

"When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light."

 

― Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water

 

 

 

"The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places."

 

― Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

 

 

 

"You are water

I’m water

we’re all water in different containers

that’s why it’s so easy to meet

someday we’ll evaporate together."

 

― Yoko Ono

 

 

 

"The water you kids were playing in, he said, had probably been to Africa and the North Pole. Genghis Khan or Saint Peter or even Jesus may have drunk it. Cleopatra might have bathed in it. Crazy Horse might have watered his pony with it. Sometimes water was liquid. Sometimes it was rock hard- ice. Sometimes it was soft- snow. Sometimes it was visible but weightless- clouds. And sometimes it was completely invisible- vapor- floating up into the the sky like the souls of dead people. There was nothing like water in the world, Jim said. It made the desert bloom but also turned rich bottomland into swamp. Without it we'd die, but it could also kill us, and that was why we loved it, even craved it, but also feared it. Never take water for granted, Jim said. Always cherish it. Always beware of it."

 

― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

 

 

"When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!"

 

― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

 

"Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words."

 

― David Rains Wallace, The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

 

 

"It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body."

 

― Masaru Emoto, The Healing Power of Water

 

 

"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."

 

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

 

 

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

 

― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

 

"Homeopaths argue that water has a memory."

 

― Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

 

 

"Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag."

 

― Chet Raymo, Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God

 

 

"Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water."

 

― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

 

 

"When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom."

 

― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

 

 

"Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about."

 

― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

 

 

"The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be."

 

― Henry David Thoreau

 

 

"Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water."

 

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

 

 

"All water is holy water."

 

― Rajiv Joseph, Animals Out of Paper - Acting Edition

 

 

"I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species."

 

― Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

 

 

"Five million people die unnecessarily each year because of illness related to lack of potable water. Half of them are children under the age of five. To bring it home, think about this: one child dies from lack of clean water every twelve seconds."

 

― Thomas M. Kostigen, You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet

 

 

Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?"

"A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes."

 

― Kresley Cole, Poison Princess

 

 

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

 

― Loren Eiseley

 

 

"In my life, water has had the character of punctuation."

 

― Sueellen Campbell

 

 

"The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow."

 

― Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

 

 

"What a great genius this water is! It has thousands of different beautiful faces: It is a rainbow, an ocean, a lake, an iceberg, a waterfall, a river, a drop, a fog… What a great genius this water is!"

 

― Mehmet Murat ildan

 

 

"It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it."

 

― Gwendoline Riley

 

 

"But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear."

 

― Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

 

 

"Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful."

 

― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

 

 

"For him, it appeared he could freeze

the moment in a memory; only for it to slip through his

hands like water."

 

― J.U. Scribe, Before the Legend

 

 

"Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life."

 

― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

 

 

"People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth's water is there. It's the blue heart of the planet — we should take care of our heart. It's what makes life possible for us. We still have a really good chance to make things better than they are. They won't get better unless we take the action and inspire others to do the same thing. No one is without power. Everybody has the capacity to do something."

 

― Sylvia A. Earle

 

 

"In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves."

 

― Douglas Coupland, Souvenir of Canada

 

 

"Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."

 

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

 

 

 

"I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death."

 

― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

 

 

"Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth."

 

― Fiona Paul, Venom

 

 

"Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?

When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves."

 

― Francis Harold Cook, How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays

 

 

"Too often our visions of the future are dull and impotent

like a hammer beating the water."

 

― Harley King, Like A Hammer:Poems 1990 - 1999

 

 

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

 

― Loren Eiseley

 

 

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean."

 

― Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."

 

― Robert Henri