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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: atheism, religion

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“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog

tags: dreams, monsters, ocean, sleep

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#3

“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”
― Jackson Pearce, Fathomless

tags: beautiful, emotions, emptiness, empty, fathomless, jackson-pearce, life, loneliness, lonely, ocean, pain, painful, quotes, sadness

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#4

“I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”
― Le Testament d'Orphée

tags: french, ocean

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#5

“The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water.”
― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

tags: ocean, poetry, sea, water, waves, wilderness

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#6

“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: heart, ocean

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#7

“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: death, frankenstein, grave, mary-shelley, ocean, sea

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#8

“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: mermaid, mermaids, moby-dick, ocean, sea, siren, sirens, supernatural

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#9

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
― Khalil Gibran

tags: ocean, sacred, sea, tears

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#10

“I go to the ocean to say goodbye.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: farewell, goodbye, leaving, ocean, the-glass-child

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#11

“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: immensity, maritime, ocean, sea, time

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#12

“Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.”
― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

tags: death, drowning, king-neptune, neptune, ocean, poseidon, sea, the-ocean, the-sea

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#13

“Searching my heart for its true sorrow,
This is the thing I find to be:
That I am weary of words and people,
Sick of the city, wanting the sea”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second April

tags: ocean, poem, poetry, sea, solitude, sorrow, weariness

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#14

“Dreams are like the old stories where wolves are seekers always running, and women carry fire in their bare hands and light the dark paths before them.
Old stories hold that the birds will fly all the miles of the world to tell your secrets to the rising moon, and men will walk over oceans of ice to find one truth.”
― Tamara Rendell, Mystical Tides

tags: cosmic, dreams, fire, life, light-and-darkness, moon, mystical, ocean, secrets, truth, wolves

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#15

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: clouds, star

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#16

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#17

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#18

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: words

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#19

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: death, friendship, pain

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#20

“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour
to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my
world.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#21

“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#22

“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: spirit, union

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#23

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#24

“I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#25

“This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: death, giving-up

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#26

“Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#27

“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: desire, dreams, night

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#28

“But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: solitude

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#29

“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#30

“There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is rippling, all is dancing; all is quickness and triumph.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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