Quotes About Island

When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.

Um cego semelha uma ilha: navegante à espera de viagem, um silêncio frente ao espelho.

When he met Kurt and Chris, he was a saute cook at a seafood restaurant on Bainbridge Island. By night, he partied with his friends, smoking pot, drinking, and doing the potent local acid, which many swear has fried the brains of an entire generation of Bainbridge Islanders.

The birds that struggled to successfully locate crustaceans searched for snails and clams, with varying luck. However, a new option presented itself. An aroma pierced their nostrils, drawing their attention to a speck of light circling the island. The object was a quarter mile off, but judging by the motoring sounds, it was one of those large objects that carried clothed biped creatures across the water.

to hide them. "A man is himself and no other", Josip says. "He is an island in the sea of being. And each island is as no other. The islands are connected because they have come forth from the sea, and the sea flows between them. It separates them yet unites them, if they learn to swim.

Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.

It looks deserted. Does anyone live here anymore?" "Yes.As a matter of fact, I actually have some friends who live on the other side of the island." "I didn't think you had any friends," Dee grumbled. "Unlike you, Doctor, I am a good friend.

My life, my life, my very old one My first badly healed desire, My first crippled love, You had to return. It was necessary to know What is best in our lives, When two bodies play at happiness, Unite, reborn without end. Entered into complete dependency, I know the trembling of being, The hesitation to disappear, Sunlight upon the forest's edge And love, where all is easy, Where all is given in the instant; There exists in the midst of time The possibility of an island.

Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île.

Luís Bernardo deixou-se ficar até ao fim, sozinho, mais sozinho do que nunca, como se toda a ilha se tivesse despovoado de repente e, por entre os sinais de abandono e de solidão, ele buscasse os sinais da passagem de Ann para não morrer de loucura.

KtoÅ› inny opowiedziaÅ' ze zgrozÄ… o budowie na Gotlandii, na której pracowaÅ' przez trzy miesiÄ…ce. Ani razu nie mo?na byÅ'o zatroszczy? siÄ™ o swojÄ… higienÄ™, bo kultura saunowa nie dotarÅ'a tam na dóÅ'. Zamiast tego le?y siÄ™ tam i pluska we wÅ'asnej brudnej wodzie w tak zwanej wannie.

Recordé entonces que en la profundidad de nuestro cerebro existe una zona llamada Isla. Que todos tenemos una isla sumergida en las profundidades de la mente y que la buscamos desesperados, como el diamante fundido de nuestro ser. Que nosotros mismos, y nuestro mundo, estamos profundamente hundidos en las aguas del tiempo y de la memoria universales.

Blackwell's Island, now Roosevelt Island, was a nineteenth-century hellhole that housed prisoners, debtors, and the insane.

Even if a group of children were put "on an island and they raised themselves," Barrett adds, "I think they would believe in God." 13 It appears that we have to be educated out of the knowledge of God by secular schools and media.

The Great Point lighthouse rose at the far end of the barrier beach, a tall white steeple to the sky, with a working light flashing at the top. Here was the end of the island, the great point where the Atlantic Ocean met Nantucket Sound in a froth of waves. All along the point, enormous fat seals lolled on the sand, occasionally lumbering in and out of the water, grunting and lounging like a tribe of overfed Roman emperors.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island without a beach.

Able was I ere I saw Elba

No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride that bound every mother, father, and child in a clannish commitment to the hunt.

Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison.

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To the south, past the rocks, in the dunes, stood the carved posts of the graveyard. Bebba lay there, it was said, and other queens. Anglisc and British, including Cwenbarh. It was ill luck to linger by the dead, so they walked-they ran, they skipped, they laughed, their dresses kilted up like they were children, bags of bread and beer bouncing, noses streaming-north, to the island.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never reenter it once we are on the outside.