Top 100 The Mermaid Quotes
#1. They were quiet a moment longer, both staring at the mermaid and her weird water-spouting nipples. Neither moved.
Mollie knew why she didn't want the moment to end. But why was he still here?
Lauren Layne
#2. You're a miracle," he breathed.
"You're a miracle," the mermaid echoed, before it leaned up and carefully, almost delicately, ripped away his throat.
Mira Grant
#3. ...either I'm losing my mind, or I saw mermaids." --Alec Costner, The Mermaid Coast
Robert Woolcott
#4. Is this the sexy escort I ordered?" Sabin asks immediately. "I don't want to hear any bitching about the tree-house situation, okay? It's very trendy right now. And you better be bringing the mermaid outfit I requested, or this whole thing is off. Also, I'll be paying you from my jar of pennies.
Jessica Park
#5. I feel as if I am the eye of my own storm, still, like the mermaid, at the center of my own chaos.
Raffaella Barker
#6. She believes that I love her!" cried the King. "What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?" "You know best," answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. "When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don't need advice from anyone else.
Andrew Lang
#7. Last night at Bingo, Sylvia won the last prize. 'What am I going to do with a mermaid?"
"Learn to swim in the murkiest water, reinvent yourself," the mermaid said #149
Monique Duval
#8. Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough to claim that the mermaid had risen, fully-formed, from the very center of the quake.
One of her boys, hearing this, said that he'd heard it was the other way around.
Peter Watts
#9. If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#11. The hunter and the mermaid were so different from each other that it seemed to them, finally, that they were exactly alike; and they lived together and were happy.
Randall Jarrell
#12. There are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.
Carolyn Turgeon
#13. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Beyonce Knowles
#14. Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.
Margot Datz
#15. I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.
Gabriel Iglesias
#16. Thoughts that found a maze of mermaid hair
Tangling in the tide's green fall
Now fold their wings like bats and disappear
Into the attic of the skull.
Sylvia Plath
#17. There are seven mermaid princesses and seven pearls. The reason I sing is to convey my love. The reason the pearl sparkels is to brighten the sea. And so, I can never forget...the sound of the waves or the warmth of the sea.
Pink Hanamori
#18. Seated atop the creature was a mermaid. She carried a crossbow. A sword hung from her hip. Her coppery hair, cut short, was angled over her forehead and cheekbones. Her green eyes blazed with fury.
'Go, Sera!' Becca shouted. 'Take back your throne!
Jennifer Donnelly
#19. Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
Esther Williams
#20. fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.
- a mermaid escapist II.
Amanda Lovelace
#21. I could see the combinations and permutations flutter through their minds. This was Boulder. It could easily be two moms. Two dads. A dad, a mom, and an orangutan. Three Amish hipsters and a transgendered Aboriginal mermaid.
Bill Konigsberg
#22. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
John Green
#24. Frankie was so mad that she threw my journal into the bottom of the ocean where it is banished for all eternity with a lovesick mermaid who cries out pieces of sea glass. Are you going to eat that bacon?
Sarah Ockler
#25. How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door." Ursula sighed dramatically. "What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven't eaten any of your children."
-Ursula
Khalia Hades
#26. I've known Hillary, and her husband Bill, for more than half of my life. I remember her playing mermaid in the pool with our youngest daughter Sally for hours on family vacations.
Terry McAuliffe
#28. Father, what are you to do now?"
Triton's sneer grew scarier. "She broke the law." turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. "She must die.
Khalia Hades
#29. Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.
Haruki Murakami
#30. I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me
Emily Dickinson
#31. Thus the little mermaid learned her world's greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.
Esther Dalseno
#32. I remember when I was doing Mermaids [1990], I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.
Winona Ryder
#33. You'll do fine."
"What, you're psychic now?"
"Didn't you know?" he asks seriously. "Must be an aftereffect of the bond.
Tera Lynn Childs
#34. The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels'
Ekaterina Gordeeva
#35. She said to me, "I don't know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.
Renee Thebeau
#36. She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!
Avijeet Das
#37. Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.
Brian Selznick
#38. Now I feel bad," Diehl said. "Like we're about to nuke Aquaman. Or the Little Mermaid. ... "
"Pretend they're Gungans," Cruz suggested. "And that we get to nuke Jar Jar.
Ernest Cline
#39. If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.
Tori Amos
#40. Be still, for you may the hauntingly familiar melody of a mermaid.
Heather McLaren
#41. Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character may be a princess or a peasant; she might be a mermaid or a milkmaid, a ruler or a servant. You will find one thing all have in common: they must overcome adversity.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#42. And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim."
"Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said.
Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?
Kelley Armstrong
#43. Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood.
Adelaide Crapsey
#44. For the first time in maybe my whole life, I feel dangerous and magical, like a dragon or a mermaid. A fury, standing there with my half-gone grape slush and my jaw clenched, ready for whatever comes next.
Brenna Yovanoff
#45. He fell
from the sinking ship
to the roiling sea
of uncertainty,
into the hands
of the one mermaid
who knew exactly
how to save him.
Kirk Diedrich
#46. I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.
Rebel Wilson
#47. Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. "I wonder what its like to be a human?"
"Why won't you just go and find out?" the question startled her. She whirled around to come face to face with her evil aunt; Ursula.
Khalia Hades
#48. The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.
Genie Frisbee
#49. I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.
Jodi Benson
#50. In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.
David Hewson
#51. The turquoise tide shimmered in shades of mermaid tails against the alabaster shore. The
Karen Marie Moning
#52. What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.
Jodi Picoult
#53. The sky was powdered with diamond dust and the river hid its secrets under a slick black sheets, broken here and there with a silvery flash that could have been a fish's tail-or a mermaid's.
Cassandra Clare
#54. My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'
Ariel Winter
#55. Abby was laughing and panting for breath, her eyes bright, her face beaming under the sun. She spilled across the shore at my feet, her blond hair tangled and wet, clothes stuck to her body. She was the sexiest mermaid I'd ever seen.
Ophelia London
#56. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.
Alethea Kontis
#57. She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!
-Arista
Khalia Hades
#58. The first rule of cannibal mermaid fight club is don't talk about cannibal mermaid fight club.
Kali Wallace
#59. I want to be Ursula in 'The Little Mermaid.'
Lily James
#60. I wonder if people would learn from the Little Mermaid's heartbreak when she dies at the end of her real story. I
Chris Colfer
#61. I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.
William Shakespeare
#62. In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.
Richard Corliss
#63. How agonizing it was,this life of silence and yearning. Yet how very worth it when his eyes found hers.
Marissa Meyer
#64. I began to swim, an armless silver mermaid, using only my hips to generate motion, until finally my ass scraped against the lake's mucky bottom. I turned then and used my hips and waist to roll three times, until I came ashore near a ratty green towel. They'd left me a towel. How thoughtful.
John Green
#65. The sea waves stirred before me
they dashed against the rocks
Like a mermaid rising from its depths
curled white sea foam were her locks ...
Giselle V. Steele
#66. You know that's why mermaids swim around topless all the time, right? It's because their boobs are too big and all bras are C shells.
H.M. Ward
#67. Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.
Bill Maher
#68. To slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
Ellen Meloy
#69. Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. 'I've been practicing. Want to hear?
Julie Kagawa
#70. When a storm was coming on, and they anticipated that a ship might sink, they swam before it, and sang most sweetly of the delight to be found beneath the water, begging the seafarers not to be afraid of coming down below.
Hans Christian Andersen
#71. words
like mysterious mermaids
come and live permanently
in the soft sweeps
and scars of my skin.
Sanober Khan
#72. Because she could not go near all these wonderful things, she longed for them all the more.
Hans Christian Andersen
#73. To the untrained (human) eye, Thalassinia looks like an expanse of coral reefs and volcanic formations. There are no straight lines or geometric shapes to give away the fact that the structures are actually mermade. (Get it? Mermade. Like mermaid, but ... oh, never mind.)
Tera Lynn Childs
#74. So down and down and down and down
And down and down we go
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua
World so very dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.
Jimi Hendrix
#75. The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
Charlie Munger
#76. I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#77. Hazel had promised to visit again with Arion. The mermaids had written their phone numbers in waterproof ink on Hazel's arm so that she could keep in touch. Leo didn't even want to ask how mermaids got cell-phone coverage in the middle of the Atlantic.
Rick Riordan
#78. I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.
Ella Henderson
#79. For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.
Richard Corliss
#80. What do you have there?"
Mouse perked up at her interest. "I'm making ski masks to have on hand for bank robberies. Last night I finished the fingerless mermaid gloves for Eve. She likes her fingers free for gunplay."
Mouse's needles clicked together in a peaceful rhythm.
Debra Anastasia
#81. The tail of Emily Windsnapeveryone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.
Liz Kessler
#82. I left Mermaid's Bar and Grill about 2:00 am, and fishtailed out of the parking lot.
Jarod Kintz
#83. It was a woman
as pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped pupils, reminiscent of an octopus.
Elizabeth Fama
#84. I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.
Sue Monk Kidd
#85. Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.
Sue Monk Kidd
#86. I don't wanna go. I want to defile the prestigious Plaza Hotel by having you ride me like a slutty mermaid in the bathtub.
Emma Chase
#87. I am not Undine for Undine or the Little Mermaid sold her glory for feet. Undine (or the Little Mermaid) couldn't speak after she sold her glory. I will not sell my glory.
H.D.
#88. She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.
Natalia Marx
#89. I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about.
Emma Roberts
#90. I've swallowed fish-eyes whole
like an endoscope.
I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin.
Felt like a shark eating another shark,
inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.
Yann Rousselot
#91. At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.
Hans Christian Andersen
#92. The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves - is the ethical choice at the heart of love. The other person, their identity and feelings, can be sacrificed for our pleasure.
Rod Dubey
#93. The first time she'd lured her ex to a restaurant it had been all she could do to snap him out of the reverie he entered, only for him to emerge spouting nonsense about how she was a princess, a goddess, even a fucking mermaid one time he called her.
Ali Shaw
#94. The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
Mark Twain
#95. It was the last night that she would
breathe the same air as he, or look out over the deep sea and up into the star-blue heaven. A dreamless,
eternal night awaited her, for she had no soul and had not been able to win one.
Hans Christian Andersen
#96. I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can't I received the same feeling in return?
-Ariel
Khalia Hades
#97. I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.
Esther Williams
#98. Name a mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!" "Oh, sure," Leo said. "Like ... um, the Little Mermaid?" Aphros frowned. "Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!
Rick Riordan
#99. The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)
John Bytheway
#100. Hopefully, anyone who saw a woman riding a screaming mermaid in a wheelchair down Leavenworth at a quarter to five in the morning would just think they'd had too much to drink.
Seanan McGuire
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