Top 90 Quotes About Quicksand
#1. The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to uh-oh.
Ridley Pearson
#2. Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.
Harold Pinter
#3. Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them. However, for the first time in his life Moinous understands what quicksand love is.
Raymond Federman
#4. What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
Eugene Delacroix
#5. What were you thinking?"
"Not much, clearly."I hear the exasperation in Kacey's voice.
"I don't know about you, Livie ... Sometimes you're as graceful as a one-legged flamingo in a pit of quicksand.
K.A. Tucker
#6. In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.
Robert Osborne
#7. Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. O'Neill was perceptive enough to understand the country had a new leader that it wanted to believe in. After the tragedy of Dallas, after the quicksand of Vietnam, the scandal of Watergate, and the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter, it needed one.
Chris Matthews
#9. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#10. By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.
Kate Atkinson
#11. The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
Aaron Hill
#12. Voluntary Quicksand
I read the Chronicle this morning
as if I were stepping into voluntary
quicksand
and watched the news go over my shoes
with forty-four more days of spring.
Kent State
America
May 7, 1970
Richard Brautigan
#13. Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.
JoAnn Ross
#14. Be careful ... not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they're actually quicksand.
Steve Maraboli
#15. Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.
Lilli Thal
#16. We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.
Regina Brett
#17. That smile was dangerous, she thought - a quicksand smile if ever there was one. Easy to wander in; perhaps more difficult to wander back out.
Stephen King
#18. Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the more I'm sucked back down by his unrelenting criticism.
Lac Su
#19. Failure is a form of quicksand. Take immediate action or you'll be sucked under.
Max Lucado
#21. With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand ... hopeless from the start.
Sylvia Plath
#22. I dragged my mind away from that line of thought; there was nothing but quicksand and crocodiles down that path.
Melanie Casey
#23. Back to Jak - Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku? There's nothing there! Sand and junk and rocks and sand and quicksand and sand - I don't get it!
Alan Dean Foster
#24. Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand.
Steve Maraboli
#25. The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.
I.E. Castellano
#28. When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child ... eventually.
Steven Wright
#29. Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
Colin Wilson
#30. That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words ... and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the exhausting immensity of their "possibles", in short their treachery, have something of quicksand about them.
Georges Bataille
#31. Peter is suffering from an attack of nostalgia, she knows the symptoms. She mustn't join in otherwise she'll be swept away too, drowning in a quicksand of the past.
Elly Griffiths
#32. Even when your eyes are closed, it feels black. As black as black ever gets, like if you touch it, your hand might get stuck in it, like tar or black quicksand or when you stretch out your hand at night, to turn on a light, but all you feel is darkness.
Kelly Link
#33. You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.
Jodi Picoult
#34. In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
Trent Reznor
#35. It feels like I'm trapped in quicksand. The more I struggle, the more I sink. So I stop struggling. I stop trying to free myself; because the more I struggle the scarier it becomes. Then - and only then did panic yield long enough for a numbness to spread and stick to me like a second skin.
Jannet Casas
#36. Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.
Brandon Boyd
#37. In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.
Ann Weems
#38. In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos
George F. Will
#39. I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library - subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps - and try to memorize them. I'm afraid of getting lost; no, I'm afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.
Deborah Feldman
#40. However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.
Alfie Kohn
#41. I understand. Not the circumstances, but the shame. I understand the quicksand of shame.
Jandy Nelson
#42. Life is like a quicksand; no matter how careful or lucky we're, we all spend our lives seconds from disaster.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#43. This is something that I cannot get over
that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Karl Kraus
#44. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die.
Sylvia Plath
#45. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike
#46. Sadness was like quicksand, catching you unaware and pulling you in the more you fought it.
Martin Kee
#47. self-pity was like quicksand. Dip one toe in and it slowly sucked in the rest of you, until you were drowning in gloom.
Dale Mayer
#48. Since her time in the necromancer's clutches, she was still recovering lost memories from the quicksand of her mind. They'd drop like nuclear bombs, freezing her at the worst time as visuals which should've stayed forever buried bubbled to the surface.
Katherine McIntyre
#49. She felt, beneath her feet, the shifting of the planks she'd laid across the quicksand of that other life. She'd thought she could escape it? It was there, it had always been there, and this life she'd built on top of it felt about as sturdy as a shantytown on the flank of a volcano.
Laini Taylor
#50. The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity - and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
Richard P. Feynman
#51. It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of it. But it's like being in quicksand: the more you struggle the deeper you sink.
Sam Keen
#52. Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.
Susan Kay
#53. I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
Bear Grylls
#55. Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.
Alane Adams
#56. I'm stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#57. Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.
Elena Gorokhova
#58. The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.
Linda Conrad
#59. Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.
Tian Dayton
#60. She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil.
Terry Goodkind
#61. Love is like quicksand; once you're in it's difficult to get out.
C.B. Smith
#62. You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn't work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
Richard Shelby
#64. When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
Shekhar Kapur
#65. The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.
Daniel Handler
#67. I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
Kaley Cuoco
#68. Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.
Bryant McGill
#69. I once had a mind of quicksand,
That dragged ideas into its depths,
Inhaling specks of sunlight,
Every time I drew a breath,
But the world thought me a hazard,
When every word I spoke, I meant,
So around me they put caution tape,
And filled me with cement.
Erin Hanson
#70. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.
Liu Cixin
#73. You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move ... you can't breathe ... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.
Keanu Reeves
#74. She was like quicksand-the more I struggled to get out, the faster I sank. So I'd decided to give up and embrace the sink down.
Kelley R. Martin
#75. People who blame are always looking to "get out" of something, but like quicksand, the more they struggle the more they are captive.
Bryant McGill
#76. An easy life is like quicksand:Before you know it, you're trapped and can't move, can't breathe, can't get to where you really wanted to go. Don't coast unless you're rolling downhill on a bicycle.
Jessica Hagy
#77. He felt the quicksand of failure sucking at his feet, threatening to bury him, to drown him.
Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Location 2125).
Jeana E. Mann
#78. Why didn't you tell me that the foundation you taught me to stand on is made from quicksand?
Colleen Hoover
#79. Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand.
Mos Def
#80. I could not separate the Bird Refuge from my family. Devastation respects no boundaries. The landscape of my childhood and the landscape of my family, the two things I had always regarded as bedrock, were now subject to change. Quicksand.
Terry Tempest Williams
#81. Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
Rose Wilder Lane
#82. Life had a way of shifting under her feet like quicksand and she had learned to just make the best of it. Like Gigi always said, 'when God closes a door, he shoves you out the window.
Tracy Brogan
#83. The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.
James Chanos
#84. Is that supposed to make me feel sorry for you, Lord Rushwood? Just because we come from two different worlds, it doesn't make us much different. I might not know what it's like to have a wallet full of money at my disposal, but obligations place both of us on level ground...or quicksand.
Tammy L. Bailey
#85. At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took ...
Heather McHugh
#86. Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
#87. But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.
Nella Larsen
#89. In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.
Victor Hugo
#90. Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.
Michael Bassey Johnson
