Tide Quotes

“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling”
― Munia Khan

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson

“You don’t need to be the tide to rise and fall,
you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore;
just be a little sand-grain and feel them all”
― Munia Khan

“I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me”
― Laurie Matthew, Groomed

“Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.

...

He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause.

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They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.”
― Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems

“True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Side by side we'll fight the tide,
That sweeps in to take us down.
Hand in hand we'll both withstand,
Even as we drown.”
― Kelly Creagh, Enshadowed

“I seek you like the waves seek the shore. I cannot stay, and too, I cannot stay away from you. When I push against the drift, I choke! I gasp for air! I drown within my love for you. So I will ebb and I will flow and let the tide direct my course and see where it will go.”
― Kate McGahan

“Love comes in waves. It's natural law. There's always more coming.”
― Kate McGahan

“The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.”
― Dixie Waters

“No living thing ever defeated Tain Hu in battle. Only the tide could fight her. Only the moon and the sea together could bring her down.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“They want a leader, and if the Reaper of Mars decides to come back from the dead here...you won't have an army, you'll have a tide at your heels.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“The moon makes love
to the ocean
and
in this holy conception it gives birth
to a little tide.”
― A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming

“Despite the sea being wild and the waves rolling away from the shore, the tide always returns.”
― Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea

“things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Beyond the Laughing Sky

“The fool attempts to predict the next big wave while ignoring the tide.”
― James Rozoff

“It's like the tide, Jo, when it turns it goes slowly--but it can't be stopped.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Souls of love breathlessly sail
Towards our time when hours fail
To cope with longing here we are
Chasing the speed of a falling star
Miles and miles fleetly we go
Down to the ocean, deeper the flow
Waves now know their crushing tide
Splashing between joy and pride”
― Munia Khan

“Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“Time and Tide wait for no Man; what about woman ? How Sexist !”
― gaurav rao

“RECURRENT CURRENTS

Like the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional rip

Kamil Ali”
― Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales

“The world is always dying and always coming back to life. Tide and pulse, and with the turn of the tide a touch of mystery.”
― Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

“The tide moves me
higher on the crags. My joints crunch
like the mussels
and barnacles beneath my boots.
I walk a tightrope,
from here to another ocean
huddled with archipelagos
where ancestral canoes
set to paddle across the world.
I teeter and my hands catch
the water rising cold.
The sea we come from is much warmer.”
― Michelle Peñaloza, Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire

“The tide can turn any time.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When you depend on the tide to turn in your favor do keep in mind the loss of crucial time & a chance to enhance your skills in difficult times; maybe by the time tide turns you won’t remain in the best of condition to sail through. Remember it's the rough seas which make a good sailor.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“The tide can turn at any time.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita