Undertow Quotes

• Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Years, Too Late, Attention

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• A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

  Marguerite Young

  Libro, Media, Escritura

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• The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

  Cyril Connolly

  Beach, Art, Genius

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• Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Powerful, Past

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• The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Reality, May

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Mulberry Tree”, p.102, Random House

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• Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gauges, Currents, Music Is

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl

  Leonard Cohen

  Beach, Children, Hate

  Song: Undertow, Album: Dear Heather, 2004

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• Le contarán duras historias de tiburones por todo el Cabo, que no me atrevo a poner en duda en absoluto: cómo a veces vuelcan un barco o lo hacen pedazos para alcanzar al hombre que va en él. Puedo creer fácilmente en la resaca, pero no me cabe duda de que un tiburón en una docena de años es suficiente para mantener la reputación de una playa de cien millas de largo.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Believe, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.806, e-artnow

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• Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn - and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.

  Muriel Barbery

  War, Sleep, Flames

  "La elegancia del erizo". Libro de Muriel Barbery, 31 de agosto de 2006.

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• Acuérdate de reconocer los pequeños éxitos que vayas teniendo. No dejes que el brillo de ese gran objetivo te ciegue ante lo que ocurre en el camino hacia la meta. Ve ola a ola y disfruta de los progresos que hagas. Quiero que, por favor, no te dejes llevar por la resaca del pesimismo.

  Lucille Ball

  Success, Taken, Goal

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• I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Powerful, Get Better

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• There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

  John Green

  Sea, Parent, Wade

  John Green (2015). "Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition", p.94, Penguin.

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• I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

  Margaret E. Barber

  Ocean, Sea, Fathom

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• los charcos de sangre no son recreativos incluso los socorristas se ahogan cuando la resaca rompe el pan con los bajos fondos los demonios disfrazados de tiburones no han pensado lo suficiente en sus trajes un sabio se queda en tierra cuando las aletas puntiagudas se leen como subtítulos en italiano el final está cerca (...) el principio

  Saúl Williams

  Italiano, Tiburones, Sangre

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• Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.

  Andrew Schneider

  Sex, Shadow, Trying

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• Los árboles del bulevar se yerguen desnudos en sus pensamientos,
  su abundante palabrería veraniega silenciada, atrapada
  En la sombría resaca; desnudos los árboles se enfrentan
  el largo e implacable invierno.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Invierno, Largo, Árbol

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). "Obras Delphi de D.H. Lawrence (Ilustradas)", p.4394, Delphi Classics.

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• Anoche navegué por el río Norte con mi flauta, y mi música era una corriente tintineante que serpenteaba con el río, y caía de nota en nota como un arroyo de roca en roca. No oí los acordes después de que salieran de la flauta, sino antes de que fueran soplados en ella, porque el acorde original precede al sonido tanto como el eco le sigue después, y el resto es propiedad de las rocas, los árboles y las bestias. La música no premeditada es el verdadero indicador que mide la corriente de nuestros pensamientos, la resaca misma de la corriente de nuestra vida.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Night, Echoes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Swim, Drifting, Dreamland

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.167, Penguin

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• Si no piensas por ti mismo, alguien está pensando por ti. Elige por ti mismo y libérate de la resaca de la sociedad. El Universo está listo para apoyarte.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Thinking, Support You

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Sep 23, 2016

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• It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Real, Believe, Force Fields

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Endurance, Tumbling, Surf

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). "Hombres y mujeres de Cristo", Bookcraft Pubs

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