Quotes About Waves

It is difficult for many to realize that they are actual universes; that their physical bodies are a visible nature through the structure of which countless waves of evolving life are unfolding their latent potentialities.

We talked and talked, strolling to the soundtrack of the waves breaking on the shore at Santa Monica beach, where I was living.

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.

But it isn't silly, this preoccupation with small time units. One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance tuns outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.

There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water's waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!"-Arista

Life is just like a sea, we are moving without an end. Nothing stays with us, what remains is just the memories of some people who touched us as waves...

The sweet air coming into your house on afine day, from water etchedwith waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

Así con la playa vacía, las olas se vuelven imponentes, son ellas solas las que gobiernan el paisaje. En ese sentido me reconozco lamentablemente dócil, maleable. Veo ese mar implacable y desolado, tan orgulloso de su espuma y de su coraje, apenas mancillado por gaviotas ingenuas, casi irreales, y de inmediato me refugio en una irresponsable admiración.

Una presencia móvil pero sin vida. Una presencia de olas oscuras, insensibles. Testigo de la historia, testigo inútil porque no sabe nada de la historia. ¿Y si el mar fuera Dios? También un testigo insensible. Una presencia móvil pero sin vida.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can chose which one to surf.

Far off was the gentle roar of the sea, a constant lullaby. Except,

I stand upon the downs of life, And watch two barks of Fate sail in; The waves and winds are all at strife, I sadly wonder who will win.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took...

Love is like the ocean waves, it either has it high or low times and when it's high, it just drowns you all together.

Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.

form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of