Best Undertow Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The drag of magic reminds me of the undertow on a beach: a strip of calm, dark water that seems innocuous but, once it has you, pulls you far from land.”

Water Magic Beach Holly Black The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Deceptive Undertow Innocuous

Book:The Stolen Heir

Source: The Stolen Heir

“You’ll be okay, Eila. You are stronger than you think,” he said, a tad too serious. I nodded drunkenly. “I am still worried though, about a concussion. You look a bit unstable.” I bet I did.”

Undertow Eila Raef

Book:Undertow

Source: Undertow

“...'undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet - there's a sense of being dragged slowly off, not against our will but regardless of it. And fighting the undertow, as children are quick to learn, is not usually the best way of getting back to the beach. Floating along with it, on the other hand, can be fatal. It's really the struggle, the argument with oneself, that interests...”

Will Undertow

Book:Picador new writing

Source: Picador new writing

“Life's a bitch and her stripper name is Karma." - quote from Diane Madden Ferguson's UNDERTOW”

Karma Ferguson Undertow Diane

Book:Undertow: A U.S. Navy Veteran's Journey Through Military Sexual Trauma

Source: Undertow: A U.S. Navy Veteran's Journey Through Military Sexual Trauma

“Agua brava. Furious water, an undertow that could lift you up and wash you away. That would never leave you quite in the same place it found you. That returned you slightly — but irrevocably— different. So that at night when you lay in your dry bed, you still felt the memory of that wave moving inside you.”

Sea Ocean Waves Undertow Rip Currents

Author:Adriana Herrera

“... my dreams were an undertow that dragged me down, down, down until I couldn't escape them.”

Dreams Sarah J Maas Feyre Feyre Archeron A Court Of Mist And Fury Nightmares Undertow Inescapable Dragging Down Dragged Down

Book:A Court of Mist and Fury

Source: A Court of Mist and Fury

“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.”

Ifs Writing Mean Book Bigs Social Consciousness Pieces Good Writers Small Pieces Big Book Social Consciousness Undertow

Author:Marguerite Young

“remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.”

Way Want Bigs Happens Remember Success Enjoy Goal Taken Progress Please Blind Wave Pessimism I Want You Brightness Undertow Small Successes

Author:Lucille Ball

“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.”

People World Way Humans May War Dies Turns Nations Sound Born Sleep Tears Human Life Flames Elsewhere Fury Merry Reborn Eruption Undertow

Author:Muriel Barbery

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

Sea Ocean Fathom Undertow Shingles

Author:Margaret E. Barber

“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.”

Stills Sometimes Facts Powerful Depression Illness Mental Illness Get Better Undertow

Author:Tracy Thompson

“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.”

Way Trying Wells Looks Sex Lovers Shadow Looming Undertow

Author:Andrew Schneider

“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.”

Lord Circumstances Patient Endurance Permit Timing Seeming Surf Bruised Battered Tumbling Undertow

Book:Men and Women of Christ

Source: Men and Women of Christ

“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”

Knows Heart Children Soul Night Hate Sea Sky Arms My Heart Shapes Lows Caught My Soul Beach Tides Bowls Chill One Night Begging Undertow

Author:Leonard Cohen

“pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning”

Ends Enough Break Blood Bread Demon Italian Pool Costumes Sharks Fins Subtitles Undertow End Is Near Lifeguard

Author:Saul Williams

“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.”

Parent Realizing Sea There Comes A Time Wade Undertow

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

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

Felt Swim Shore Drifting Dreamland Undertow

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“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.”

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.”

Long Tree Crosses Winter Caught Naked Questioning Grim January Boulevard Undertow

Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“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.”

Years Past Next Games Powerful Week Baseball Seasons Heritage Next Day Next Year Next Week Undertow

Author:John Thorn

“If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Inspiration Universe Support Ready You Choose Support You Undertow

Author:Michael Beckwith

“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.”

Writing May Sometimes Reality Given Plans Subjects Conscious Caught Unexpected Sensations Captured Swimmer Undertow

Book:The Mulberry Tree

Source: The Mulberry Tree

“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.”

Years Attention Trouble Week Truth Is Late Currents Pay Attention Too Late Relevant Undertow

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“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.”

Art Genius Art Is Wave Beach Works Of Art Drag Undertow

Author:Cyril Connolly