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

Isabel Paterson

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

E.L. James

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Sabina Wurmbrand

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Sarah Kay

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

Laurie R. King

#18. 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

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

Jerry Bridges

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Denise Hunter

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Srinivas Shenoy

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

Euripides

#28. 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

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

Letitia Dean

#30. ... 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

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

Pierce Brown

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

Marty Rubin

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Hamilton C. Burger

#37. 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

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

Amy Reed

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

John D. MacDonald

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

Belinda Jeffrey

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

Shaun Adams

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

Art Blakey

#43. Tears wash away the soot of indifference.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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

Terry Pratchett

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

The Shins

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Bryant McGill

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

Arthur Golden

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

Nancy B. Brewer

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

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

Erika Johansen

#56. 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

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

Amy Leigh Mercree

#58. 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

#59. 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

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

Pierre Corneille

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

Erri De Luca

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

Bryant McGill

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

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

Maxim Gorky

#67. 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

#68. Loyalty's a dangerous foundation. Tends to wash away in a storm. Self-interest stands in any weather.

Joe Abercrombie

#69. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy.

Amy Tan

#70. The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

Seamus Heaney

#71. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed,

Khaled Hosseini

#72. I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.
I wanted to, but I did not!

Faraaz Kazi

#73. In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

Subcomandante Marcos

#74. Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,
May drink and love still reign,
With wine I wash away my cares,
And then to cunt again.

John Wilmot

#75. Don't lose sleep over things you cannot change! Wash away guilt - it's not worth it.

Denise Austin

#76. I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

Bill Maher

#77. At least the water can wash away my tears.

Jessica Brody

#78. All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to put up your chin and tell yourself you are strong. And if you begin to weaken, hold on to me. That's what I am here for.

Cynthia Wright

#79. I'd try to wash away the noise of the weeping woman and the vision of dust, but it echoed in my head all day.

Xiaolu Guo

#80. Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

Marcus Aurelius

#81. The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#82. Renew yourself with love. Wash away all the fear, hatred and societal conformity to create a brand new humanity filled with love, kindness and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#83. Water was a state of mind. If you think it your friend when you swim in the river or wash away the dirt, why call it your enemy when it comes from the heavens? From the cup of the gods themselves.

Kate Furnivall

#84. It is time to buddle (scrub in water) all that is not illutile (unwash-awayable). Baudelaire said that humans were deluded if they thought they could wash away all their spots with vile tears, but Baudelaire was French and therefore knew nothing about hygiene or shower gel.

Mark Forsyth

#85. We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift.

Pirjo Honkasalo

#86. If I could wash away one memory from my life to date, it would be the suffering in his eyes while I was raped in front of him.

Pam Godwin

#87. I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears

Miyavi

#88. In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#89. As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Alan Moore

#90. I wash away negativity, opening myself up to light and love and all things good and beneficial.

Deborah Blake

#91. I get my share of mud flung my way, but the secret is to dance in the rain and the mud will wash away.

Philip Catshill

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

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

Jayen San Diego

#97. 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

#98. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#100. 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