Quotes and Sayings about Rivers

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant

Tyler… you drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. And clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.

Rikki in Days Gone

Trees Clouds

Your fate, like a river, flows only in one direction.

He Bo in SMITE

Fate & Destiny

Every river reaches the ocean in its own way.

Ivern, the Green Father in League of Legends

The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.

Oliver in Call Me By Your Name

A river is made drop by drop.

Pete Buttigieg - Shortest Way Home

Small Things

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace

Life Enjoying

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Kahlil Gibran

Life Death

What I love most about rivers is
You can't step in the same river twice
The water's always changing, always flowing
But people, I guess, can't live like that

Pocahontas in Pocahontas

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Animals can survive for weeks without food, but merely a few days without water. There is no dish that could ever compare to pure, unadulterated water.

Neuvillette in Genshin Impact

Water

I don't like boats. I don't like water. I'm a man not a fish.

Connor MacLeod in Highlander

Water

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

Stephen Curry

Water

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Toni Morrison

Water

Shelby: "What can I get here that has no sugar, no carbs, and is fat free?"
Sam: "Water."

Sam in Cinderella Story

Water

Does anyone else wake up in the middle of the night thirsty as hell, and water tastes like it came from God's personal pond?

Water

Water, whether frozen or flowing, is life, and its currents run deep in us.

Elementarmagier - Charaktererstellung in Guild Wars

Water

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Wisdom of the Sands

Desire Ocean Ships

The human world... it's a mess.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

Ocean

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Charles Kettering

Fear Giving Up Ocean Ships

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

Karen Blixen in Out of Africa

Crying & Tears Ocean Sweating

The ocean is where I go
To lose my mind and find my soul

Ocean

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always our self we find in the sea.

Edward Estlin Cummings

Ocean

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ocean

May all your blues be the ocean and the sky!

Sky Ocean Beach

Right down here, the ocean has a depth of almost 4,000 meters. Man has mapped out every corner of this world. Been to the farthest deserts, the top of the highest mountains. But what's down there is still a mystery. A hidden world in the shadows.

Eyk Larsen in 1899 - Season 1

Ocean

The watery part of this world has a way of healing even the deepest of wounds.

Elendil in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 3

Ocean

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

Work Motivation

Pocahontas: "It would've been better if we never met. None of this would've happened."
John Smith: "Pocahontas, look at me. I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you."

John Smith in Pocahontas

Love declerations

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart.

Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go

Seperation & Breakup

But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.

Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant

Do you know why we keep going? Because what the hell else are we gonna do?

Deacon in Days Gone

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red)

Trees

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Sarah McLachlan

Happiness Clouds

What do you and a black hole have in common? You both suck.

He Bo in SMITE

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Small Things Fate & Destiny

No-one who wanders is every truly lost.

Ivern, the Green Father in League of Legends

Traveling Wandern

Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.

Call Me By Your Name

I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.

Pete Buttigieg - December 2016

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

Politics Small Things

Don't think, just do!

Horace

Taking action Motivation

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson

Alcohol Enjoying Sex Smoking Funny Quotes

Only love and death change all things.

Kahlil Gibran

Love Death

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Karl May

Death

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