logo

Quotes About Deluge

And thick and fast they came at last,And more, and more, and more—All hopping through the frothy waves,And scrambling to the shore.
~ Lewis Carroll
Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before--the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.
~ David Levithan
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark, all is deluge.
~ Horace Mann
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that -- the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death.
~ Conrad Aiken
Here too was the terrifying fixed curve of the infinite, the creeping curve of logic which at least must become the final signpost at the edge of nothing. After that - the deluge. The great white light of annihilation. The bright flash of death... ("Mr. Arcularis")
~ Conrad Aiken
Earth, what have I to do with thee? With your meadows where dumb beasts Grazed before the deluge without lifting their heads? What have I to do with your implacable births? So why this gracious melancholia? Is it because anger is no use?
~ Czes?aw Mi?osz
and soaked us both. I've
~ Diana Gabaldon
He is such a flood, I thought.
~ Madeline Miller
We may suppose that some of those that perished in the deluge had themselves assisted Noah, or were employed by him, in the building of the ark, and yet were not so wise as by repentance to secure themselves a place in it. Thus wicked ministers, though they may have been instrumental to help others to heaven, will themselves be thrust down to hell.
~ Matthew Henry
In the morning stillness, when the world is just waking up and your conscious mind hasn't fully taken over, you may feel a connection or passageway to another world, and a feeling that something is about to happen in yours. It's like a quiet storm is coming. You can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon, yet you have no idea of the deluge your life is about to experience.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Further, the legends of creation, of the tree of life, and of the deluge, mentioned in Genesis and also in Assyrian records, were well known to the Accadians, and from the conventional form of the tree of life, which in the most ancient pictures bears fir-cones, we may infer that the idea is an old tradition which the Accadians brought with them from their former and colder home
~ Paul Carus
source. The legend of the deluge[14] agrees in all important details with the analogous story in Genesis.
~ Paul Carus
Almost as soon as I arrived back at Njoro, it began to rain for the first time in over a year. The sky went black, splitting open with a deluge that didn't want to stop.
~ Paula McLain