Water Quotes - Page 5

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

no water can be touched like pain of pearl-if you touched one drop of tear

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love.

There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.

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

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come.
- Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy

Water flows, but never changes. It's always H2O.

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

When you control their water, you control the people.

As water is to a thirsty soul, so is sleep to a weakened body

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

Too often our visions of the future
are dull and impotent
like a hammer beating the water.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid,” I smirk. “We can’t breathe battery
acid, can we?