Fishes Quotes - Page 40

• I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.

  Carl Jung

  Mother, Father, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

  Charlie Higson

  Rain, Knowing, Dvds

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• A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Friday, Men, Blue

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Laughter in the Dark”, p.73, Penguin UK

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• Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.

  Maureen Johnson

  Teeth, Gone, Upstairs

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.10, Penguin

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• This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

  John Green

  Running, Land, Feelings

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

  Kathy Lette

  Love, Beautiful, Dog

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• A wish is a dish that's a lot like a fish: Once it's been eaten it's harder to throw back. - Mr. Rakshasas

  P.B. Kerr

  Wish, Dishes, Harder

  P.B. Kerr (2010). “Children of the Lamp #6: The Five Fakirs of Faizabad”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Life, Hurt, Cold

  Adeline Yen Mah (1998). “Falling leaves: the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter”

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• wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Eye, Swimming

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• One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  War, Care, Ambassadors

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• Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Song, Book, Heart

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Part II”

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• And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Long, Interesting

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.62, Del Rey

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• ‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Swimming, Names, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2010). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• …I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

  Mark Nepo

  Teacher, Sky, Water

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• A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Light, Understanding

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Lakes, Light

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.92, Zondervan

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• Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish." "Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Country, Lying, Two

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Struggle, Water, Would Be

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1991). “Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Life in Letters and Diaries”, Harvill Press

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• Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

  Confucius

  Home, Men, Teach A Man To Fish

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• Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.

  Charles Simic

  Believe, Eye, Writing

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• I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Fighting, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.49

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• my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Two, Three

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.

  Clive Barker

  Sleep, Smell, Leaving

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• Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

  William Shakespeare

  Fowl, Fins, Feathers

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1098, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Powerful, Ideas

  "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity". Book by David Lynch, December 27, 2007.

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