Submerged Quotes

• Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

  Epictetus

  Opportunity, Inward, Trials

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• It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Truth

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 29, 2014

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• The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

  A. G. Mohan

  Rivers, Water, Mind

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• Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Ocean, Air, Bottom

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• Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

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• I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

  Amber Tamblyn

  Beach, Venice, Long

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• The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.

  Arthur Tress

  World, Association, Photographer

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• I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  True Friend, Heart, Compassion

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• We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.

  Ian Mcewan

  Men, Sight, Self

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• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Humanity, Over You

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• We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

  William Gerhardie

  Ocean, Consciousness, Beneath The Surface

  1925 Polyglots, ch.14.

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• Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.

  Dave Liebman

  Art, Men, Two

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• How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.

  Jackie Kay

  Girl, Memories, Past

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun,
  for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls.
  Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice,
  in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen
  and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.

  Paracelsus

  Fall, Ocean, Ignorance

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• It sounds otherworldly and mysterious, submerged under a bed of spacious texture. A place of awe where don't have answers to all of your questions.

  Brooke Waggoner

  Bed, Sound, Texture

  "BYT Interviews: Brooke Waggoner". Interview with Tam Sackman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Even a soul submerged in sleep
  is hard at work and helps
  make something of the world.

  Heraclitus

  Life, Philosophy, Sleep

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.69, Penguin

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• Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Speak, Inarticulate

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• Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Stars, Wall

  Pablo Neruda, “Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine, Love,”

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• Timeless, so age don't count in the booth
  When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

  Rakim

  Age, Flow, Youth

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• I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

  Richard Neutra

  Morning, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.

  Eugene Walter

  Summer, Climate, Floating

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• A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Weed, Lying, Flower

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

  Bill Walton

  Running, Pain, Life Changing

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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