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 : Essays from Now or Never

“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

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

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

“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

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

“Chester stood on the shore watching the waves. Some rose, broke and were subsumed by those that followed. Some danced, their white frothy tops rising and falling rhythmically like a ballerina’s white tutu and in their joy they made progress. Others lazily rolled in and fell short of any prize. Occasionally one roared and raced in as if to capture as much of the land as possible.”
― Anna Faversham, Immortality: This Is Probably a Novel

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

“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

“I Promise You
A message of hope from a wonderful Mother

I am here to walk you
Through this journey called life
I will look after you
Until you can do so on your own
I know you need my help for now
Yes, I assure you my lovely one
I shall hold your hand no matter what
Stand by you, even in the darkest night
And ensure your days are bright
Indeed, the Earth can be so rough
Just like the ocean changes its tide
Fear not, for I will be on your side
With you, I will fly high
Until we get to the skies
And touch the shining stars
I will not let my scars
Stop me from being kind
To you, my precious child
I will be there
Until the end
I promise you!”
― Gift Gugu Mona, From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman

“To remain tender through the lonesome years...to journey into the forgotten places and remember the forsaken love ...is to remain soft though the tides have left the shores.....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“The pain in his eyes is the kind that never dies, the kind that rises like an unpredictable tide and floods the shoreline without mercy.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“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 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 at any time.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Alice suddenly found herself examining the birdbath as if it was a tide pool along the shore whose depths held countless creatures instead of just algae and bird droppings. Admiring the sunset instead might have been a wiser decision, as then she could at least attempt to blink away the tears forming in her eyes.”
― Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice

“The tide can always turn in unknown time.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The thing to do is supply light and not heat. After all, the earth isn't flat, and if we went too far, we would fall off. Since we can't predict the journey, we must enjoy the tide.”
― MoonChild Forty

“No man who rides the sand can ride the tide”
― Neil Mach, The Patternmaker and the Tide

“Journey to Enlightenment

The tide of passion will clean the filth of hatred that destroys peace.”
― Dana Dason

“To remain tender after passing through years so lonesome, to journey into the forgotten place, to remember the forsaken love is to remain soft though the tides have left the shores......”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“In the depths of my longing, there comes the tides of love and a dream I once had as the sky breaks in the blush of a sunset. The hushed evening moments, how I devour it with the longing of a starving deep, to pen a poem with unflinching desire..pushing through what is unmet in this life and there comes the raw prose, the unfading emotions to surface that lived in my soul for ages.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Every raindrop that falls, every sigh that you press in your depths, holds a story inside that the river carries with the burst of emotions and there comes the tide of poems for the river knows no bounds...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“A wave can crash on a beach, retreat, then crash again.
You’d be a fool to think being hurt once won’t ever happen again.”
― Dr. Lance Watson, Viscera

“Time, like a relentless tide, eroded even the most profound truths.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Prophetess of Dharma : Long Lost Journeys of Divine Justice, Healing and Peace

“In silence, we watched the water shimmer like a peacock's feather in that shining foil of soft tide in retreat.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Perhaps you have been told from time to time that you cannot swim against the tide. Well, not when you have the Lord on your side. This is the year where you must rise. Let nothing pertaining to your dreams slide.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams

“I've grown beyond that," Gavilar said.
"You can't grow beyond the tide, Gavilar," Thaidakar replied. "You swim with it or get swept away.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth