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Water5 quotes
I am haunted by waters. — Norman Maclean · 1976Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life. — Herman Melville · 1851Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212Ocean and sea2 quotes
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life. — Herman Melville · 1851Impermanence1 quote
Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212Irony1 quote
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Man and nature1 quote
I am haunted by waters. — Norman Maclean · 1976River1 quote
Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212Salt water1 quote
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The human condition1 quote
Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212The only constant is change1 quote
Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation. — Kamo no Chomei · 1212Thirst1 quote
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798