Island Quotes

He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a vast ship, sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another, the woman is sleeping only a few yards away from him and he cannot reach her, yet it's so very easy to go from port to starboard.

~ José Saramago

Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.

~ Michael Finkel

Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ( “Island of regret. Island of remorse” )

~ Erik Pevernagie

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

~ H.g. Wells

Between the inner and outer beaches, a strand of woods thrived: palms, palmettos, mahogany, figs, and calabash. Coconut palms and fig trees dropped enough fruit to feed the wildlife that swooped by in droves. It was so easy to catch a fish with your bare hands, Tristan and I had made a game of it during our weeks of lovemaking on the warm, supple sand. It truly was paradise.

~ A. Violet End

No man is an island, entire of itself.

~ John Donne

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...

~ Mykyta Isagulov

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

~ Enid Blyton

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight.Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!

~ Tom Wolfe

If you were to ask Jarod Kintz‬‬‬ what his personal favourite joke was, he'd say the one with the island. The big one next to New Zealand.-Stefan D and Jarod Kintz

~ Stefan D

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

~ Aldous Huxley

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

~ Dave Barry

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

~ Winston Churchill

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

~ Wilfred Burchett

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

~ Cote De Pablo

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

~ Christopher Columbus

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

~ Mitch Kapor

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

~ Nicolas Cage

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

~ Bill Gates

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

~ Jason Scott Lee

'What comes next?' is the constant question I'm asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question.

~ Brin-Jonathan Butler

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

~ Paul Simon

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

~ Jose Andres

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

~ Dennis Brown

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

~ Mickey Rivers