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“Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.”

Writing Book Ends Waiting Empty Beach Dry Tides Shells

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. Im a keen walker, and I love Suffolks big skies.”

Two Bigs Running Walks Sky Dog Stones Empty Miles Beach Cottages Walkers Sturdy Farmland

Author:Diana Quick

“Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.”

Play Three Four Week Empty Court Get Up Beach Venice One On One Venice Beach

Author:Missy Peregrym

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”

Sun Sea Solitude Ocean Empty Embrace Setting Settings Beach Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean Cool Beach

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.”

“Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.”

May Empty Distance Beach Leaving Me Famous Love Eyelids Silhouettes Don't Leave Me

Book:100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

“Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.”

Body Pain Lying Clear Empty Leaving Wave Your Body Beach Grieving Tides Palms Vessel

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.”

People World Country Hard Ocean Empty Eternity Beach Emptiness Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Grant Morrison

“Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.”

Self States Felt Air Ignorance Summer Empty Profound Confusion Indian Beach Each Day Awe Fragile Sunlight Doomed October Serene Restlessness Loveliness Misty Indian Summer

Book:The Brothers K

Source: The Brothers K