Quotes About Wash Away

#1. One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments.

Silvia Hartmann

#2. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#3. I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world
an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Craig Thompson

#4. Our glass train, on fragile tracks
Beneath bombs that fall like the flood
To wash away the shards
- But all this sorrow will recede
And we will leave
Two by two
And until then, I will only think of you.

Danny M. Cohen

#5. So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

Kristen Heitzmann

#6. Be a wave of peace and let it wash away all of the hatred from your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#7. The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Anne Lamott

#8. You must throw away everything you have and wash yourself clean of the past; otherwise you will never be able to face the world [happy and free].

Hermann Hesse

#9. Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Isabel Paterson

#10. Perhaps this agony will wash away in the shower.

E.L. James

#11. The purifications were nice, but they were just water, and didn't wash away sins; they didn't cure the mental thirst or allay his heart's anxiety.

Hermann Hesse

#12. Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do to wash away the notes that I've been working on all day. As human beings we need to sleep so that's kind of one of my little tricks.

Aaron Zigman

#13. Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean...

[John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]

Samuel Hall Young

#14. When I pull down the wall, I turn off all the colors, I wash them away. And I need color to paint. I want to paint. I need to paint.

Amy Harmon

#15. To reveal the beauty of life, let your tears wash away the shadows of darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#16. And then I wondered if, when it poured, would it wash everything away? Even the pain I was feeling?

Jayen San Diego

#17. Stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.

Sabina Wurmbrand

#18. Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?

Dave Matthews

#19. In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming to create.

Daniel Boulud

#20. And when again it's morning, they' ll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm

Suzanne Collins

#21. Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Kiran Desai

#22. I felt the cold splash of guilt and fear wash over me from the lie that I had cast into our lives in that moment, separating us, unaware of the wave of consequences that would inevitably carry me away from him - leaving, in its wake, a ripple.

L.D. Cedergreen

#23. Because rain will wash away everything, if you let it.

Sarah Kay

#24. That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Laurie R. King

#25. If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#26. There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak,
but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

Charles Spurgeon

#27. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.2

Jerry Bridges

#28. When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray What charm can soothe her melancholy What art can wash her guilt away?

Julia London

#29. Kay is a sandcastle on the beach, and I'm a fucking hurricane. I'd not only wash her away, I'd fucking destroy her.

S.R. Grey

#30. Death just seems to follow some of us, don't it? Death's been following me for years. It's easy to spot your own kind. That kind of sorrow you can't just wash away; it sticks to you. And people, they can tell. They can feel it.

Leslye Walton

#31. All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash away one sin. The everlasting burnings in hell cannot purify the flaming conscience from the least sin.

John Flavel

#32. Its not that he didn't appreciate his dishwasher. There was something about washing dishes by hand that was therapeutic, as if he could wash away the regrets of the past and photos he wanted to wipe out of his memory forever.

James L. Rubart

#33. She'd only gotten what she deserved.
No penance could wash away her sins.
Not really.

Denise Hunter

#34. There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren't even a memory, you're only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.

Anthony Marra

#35. Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir

#36. If you want to love him, you have to wash away the past. Only you can do this, my dear. You must go away, to the sea, perhaps. And you must bathe away all the fears and all the hurts given you by your history.

Jasinda Wilder

#37. The only way to wash away your sins is by feeling guilty..

Srinivas Shenoy

#38. death is the only water to wash away this dirt

Euripides

#39. Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.

Jakob Bohme

#40. We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt.

Letitia Dean

#41. Open a book this minute and start reading. Don't move until you've reached page fifty. Until you've buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

#42. As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

Diane Keaton

#43. ... Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now ...

Rob Thomas

#44. All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

Anne Lamott

#45. I wish we could wash from our hearts and souls The stains of the week away, And let water and air by their magic make Ourselves as pure as they. Then on the earth there would be indeed, A glorious washing day!

Louisa May Alcott

#46. The tide has risen. And I feel a deep terror in wondering exactly what it will wash away.

Pierce Brown

#47. The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them.

Marty Rubin

#48. The future is a map drawn in the sand, and the tide can wash it away in a moment.

Terry Brooks

#49. His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed. The craving to know what had become of him followed me everywhere.

Charlotte Bronte

#50. Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

Martha Beck

#51. We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.

Fennel Hudson

#52. Sometimes the waves come and wash away the sand so we can see the rock that make us stumble.

Hamilton C. Burger

#53. Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like her, they mourn a loss so wide and sodeep and so all-encompassing that it threatens to wash them away with grief.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#54. I have since written what no tide
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name agen.

Walter Savage Landor

#55. I knew from experience there isn't anything anyone can really say to help you through your grief. You just have to let the pain wash over you over and over again, until the tide of it drifts back and away, slowly and gradually.

Koethi Zan

#56. They are ghosts of people I never knew, which the rain will wash away.

Amy Reed

#57. She was like a dream I'd given up long ago. A different life, a better me. A chance to wash the filth away.

Chanel Cleeton

#58. Waves can wash away the most stubborn stains, and the stars do not care one way or the other.

John D. MacDonald

#59. Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#60. Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.

Lydia Sigourney

#61. Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.

Belinda Jeffrey

#62. So, blood is thicker than water. What's your point? You need the water to wash away the evidence.

Shaun Adams

#63. Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

Art Blakey

#64. Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

Solomon

#65. He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough

Will Self

#66. Tears wash away the soot of indifference.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#67. We write our names in the sand, and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Neil Gaiman

#68. And on this dirty night there were appropriately dirty deeds that not even the rain could wash away.

Terry Pratchett

#69. Make me a drink strong enough to wash away this dishwater world, they said was lemonade.

The Shins

#70. Waves of positivity and possibilities send tiny ripples of hope to wash away the walls of negativity.

Debasish Mridha

#71. The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.

Bryant McGill

#72. I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant ...

Darren Hayes

#73. Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

Arthur Golden

#74. Grief is just so scary ... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.

Anne Lamott

#75. Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

Robert De Niro

#76. Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles.
"Thank you, Rachel," he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened.
"Welcome back, my itchy witch.

Kim Harrison

#77. Mother used to say if you stood out in a rain like that; it would wash away your sins-

Nancy B. Brewer

#78. Silent is the ruined land.
Man is brutal
and the rain does not wash away
the pain
or rid the distant memory.
It makes it glisten.

Cecil Castellucci

#79. Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Arthur Golden

#80. Behold my Love which traveled by Sudden Days. I wash away my withered cold Hands to a Warm Embrace of You, My Eternal Summer!

Kevin Dellinger

#81. My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.

Richard Wurmbrand

#82. Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Herb Caen

#83. I may cry ruining my make up,
Wash away all things you've taken..
I don't care if I don't look pretty,
Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking..

Sia Furler

#84. Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

Mother Teresa

#85. Time stretched years back and years forward, but nothing that came afterward ever had the power to wash away what came before.

Erika Johansen

#86. Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Amy Tan

#87. A warm soak can wash away life's worries and soothe an active mind. Choose self-care.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#88. And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

Lucretius

#89. I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away.

Le Thi Diem Thuy

#90. It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

Pierre Corneille

#91. It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.

Erri De Luca

#92. Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

Tim Tharp

#93. When it rain, think of me. I'll be your umbrella, Kate. I'll be your barrier from the storm, when life gets too heavy. Don't let the storm wash you away. Allow it to nourish new life.

Lisa De Jong

#94. During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.

Bryant McGill

#95. Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief.

Nana Awere Damoah

#96. On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.

Gillian Flynn

#97. Tell me, Nana,
If for example we had been a love couple,
Would a hug have been enough to wash away my sadness?
Or then; does every single being carry this loneliness, like a burden?
I wans't intending to monopolizing you
I just wanted you to need me.

Ai Yazawa

#98. What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

George Eliot

#99. All parents wash away their sins with their tears; you are not the only one.

Maxim Gorky

#100. Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

Isaac Watts