Island Quotes

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

A letter from a French cleric to Nicholas of St. Albans, written c. 1178, rehearsed what was already a familiar perception: Your island is surrounded by water, and not unnaturally its inhabitants are affected by the nature of the element in which they live. Unsubstantial fantasies slide easily into their minds. They think their dreams to be visions, and their visions to be divine. We cannot blame them, for such is the nature of their land. I have often noticed that the English are greater dreams than the French.

Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.

Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

Every person is an island in the sea of humanity.

Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.

No man is an island, entire of itself.