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Quotes About Waterfall

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.
~ Jack Gilbert
I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom.
~ Madeline Miller
I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it-in such way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom
~ Madeline Miller
I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it——in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom. The days passed, and he lived. The months passed, and I could go a whole day without looking over the precipice of his death. The miracle of a year, then two.
~ Madeline Miller
Entering the Valley, gazing overwhelmed with the multitude of grand objects about us, perhaps the first to fix our attention will be the Bridal Veil, a beautiful waterfall on our right. Its brow, where it first leaps free from the cliff, is about 900 feet above us; and as it sways and sings in the wind, clad in gauzy, sun-sifted spray, half falling, half floating, it seems infinitely gentle and fine; but the hymns it sings tell the solemn fateful power hidden beneath its soft clothing.
~ John Muir
Another way to look at meditation is to view the process of thinking itself as a waterfall, a continual cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantagepoint in a cave or depression in a rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
There we did begin, Cloisterd in the waterfall, Our summer discipline.
~ Matsuo Basho
A waterfall hurdled its crazed parabola between gray rocks, flying into a stifled scream of motion far below.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
She was smiling, an otter playing in a smoky waterfall. My face ached. It seemed I was smiling, too.
~ Nicola Griffith
I was disappointed with Niagara—most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
~ Oscar Wilde
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426
~ Patrick Ness
There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall. And maybe it don't hurt so much after all.
~ Patrick Ness
Dianne is like a waterfall of spark pouring off a sharp iron edge that God is holding to the grindstone.
~ Patrick Rothfuss