Top 36 The Far Shore Quotes
#1. One day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.
James K. Morrow
#2. Part of the far shore disappeared into a shimmer that looked like water. There was no certainty in seeing, no proof that what you saw was there or was not there. And the people of the Gulf expected all places were that way, and it was not strange to them.
John Steinbeck
#3. The world swarms with people, each one drowning, but each swimming a different stroke to the far shore.
Ray Bradbury
#4. He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house ... he feels he is riding a floating skeleton ... Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.
Michael Ondaatje
#5. He glanced toward the far shore. There was no help for their relationship. Married was married. They'd have to make do. Helene would have to accept him as he was.
Eliza Lloyd
#6. Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#7. It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs.
Russell Shorto
#8. Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.
Pope Leo XII
#10. With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.
Paul T. Scheuring
#11. God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God's merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.
Patrick Madrid
#12. The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore
A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
Alexander Smith
#13. Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. I start to feel like an empty canvas under the hands of Michelangelo. No! Like a swimmer who's gone out to far in the ocean being pulled back to shore by a fashion lifeguard.
Alecia Whitaker
#15. What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
Lewis Carroll
#16. Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.
John Milton
#17. I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.
Mark Kirk
#18. The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.
Paul T. Scheuring
#20. So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
Seamus Heaney
#21. However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.
Fujiwara No Teika
#22. Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.
Sarah Dessen
#23. It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.
Paul T. Scheuring
#25. Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.
Stephanie Gilmore
#26. There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.
Paul T. Scheuring
#27. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything."
Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore.".
Haruki Murakami
#28. Wert thou as far
As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,
I would adventure for such merchandise.
William Shakespeare
#29. He wishes to be far away, either at sea or on the shore. In between, he realizes, is the most difficult of all places to be.
Jane Yolen
#30. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
#31. All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.
Charles Dickens
#32. Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future ...
Bayard Taylor
#33. As a writer, you're the guy in the box. You're creating and you have these euphorias.
Paul T. Scheuring
#34. I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
William Butler Yeats
#35. All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.
Virginia Woolf
#36. Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
Edgar Guest
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