1,262 Quotes About Water

You can tell a lot about a person from seeing them in the water. Some people freak out and spaz their way around like giant insects, others slide in like seals, turn over, dive down, effortlessly. Some people kind of tread water with big goofy smiles, others look slightly broken-armed and broken-legged or as if they are in some kind of serious pain.

We often give painkillers the credit that ought to be given to the passage of time, the belief that they would kill the pain, or the water that accompanied them.

The sea is captive in a drop of water.

Wishing is like water caught in a dam. You let a little trickle of it escape and you don't think it's much, but in no time the trickle has worn a channel and the edges fall in and the water's doubled and then you get a flood carrying everything away.

She slipped both hands into the water. Her skin looked pale and creamy below its surface. Not its usual warm bronze color. She fixed her gaze on the place where the water met the air, on the strange bend that made it seem as though her hands were in a different world beneath the water—A world that moved more slowly and told stories. The water lies.

They did not care that the kothi was on the banks of a river that swirled lazily at a slight distance, away from their bedroom windows, the rushing of the water when it was in spate creating white noise for the tumult that the lives within the homes struggled to cope with.

The water tells none of its secrets.

he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him.

love like water, searching for the sea. Love like Time, searching for meaning. Love like all that was, and ever will be.