Swimming Quotes

“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.


PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

“The Darkling just stared out into the waves. I considered shoving him over the railing. Sure, he was hundreds of years old, but could he swim?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free.”
― Jay Woodman

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“The water doesn't know how old you are.”
― Dara Torres, Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

“Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

“All right," Shannen says slowly, tucking a lock of dark brown hair behind her ear. "Why did you glue that dolphin upside down?"
Okay, so I'm a little distracted. "He's doing the back stroke.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, Forgive My Fins

“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”
― Frederick Weisel, Teller

“He was going to take a dive into this lake. He just didn’t know it. Cerise rose, finding footing in the soft mud. The water came up to just below her breasts and her wet shirt stuck to her body. William’s gaze snagged on her chest. Yep, keep looking, Lord Bill. Keeeeeep looking.”
― Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

“Swimming is simply moving meditation.”
― Cesar Nikko Caharian

“We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and we floated to where it met the sea and walked out of the water like creatures in an act of evolution.”
― Elisabeth Eaves, Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

“Dreams do come true...never stop believing.”
― Josh Davis

“Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.”
― Elisabeth Eaves, Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

“Into the day as by dream I swim
To the music of nourished meaning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

“Can you swim?" said Victor. One of the cavern's rotting pillars crashed down behind them. From the pit itself came a terrible wailing.
"Not very well," said Ginger.
"Me neither," he said. The commotion behind them was getting worse.
"Still," he said, taking her hand. "We could look on this as a great opportunity to improve really quickly.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.”
― Jennifer Lane, Streamline

“I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales.”
― April Mae Monterrosa

“We Pisceans know how to swim without water”
― Munia Khan

“At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was before we were transferred. Dachau was ever so much nicer than Auschwitz. But then, it was in the Reich. See my trophies there. The one in the middle, the big one. That was presented to me by the Reich Youth Leader himself, Baldur von Schirach. Let me show you my scrapbook.”
― William Styron, Sophie’s Choice

“Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water.”
― Dara Torres, Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

“I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.”
― Dara Torres

“And so, in the space of a few yards, the sacred springs of Gafsa, those laughing, chattering, amorous waters of the Romans that well up here in a river of warmth and purity, had been reduced to those of a Cloaca Maxima.”
― Charles Sprawson

“She loves swimming,” said Ellen, who I knew had been a competitive swimmer in college.
Ellen looked in the rearview mirror at Kara.
“Don’t you Kara?” asked Ellen.
There was no response.
“I didn’t start until I was three,” said Ellen. “She’s got a two year start on me.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“The endless use of these images, as well as the pernicious, corrosive and sly term 'bikini body' are phenomena that I would happily see wiped from the face of humanity. Sure, I get that that phrase refers to you being your best for your two weeks in the sun each year, but the damage done by the implication that we are substandard for the remaining fifty weeks is so much greater than any fun and sunshine could repair. It doesn't matter that most women only need to think about wearing swimwear for a fortnight per year — the language around it works on us daily as it drip drip drips on our souls like the salt water hitting Brighton's beautiful wrought-iron seafront. Eventually we are worn down. We begin to believe that a bikini body isn't one that is simply us, wearing a bikini, by the water, relaxed and enjoying ourselves. We begin to believe that it is an unattainable goal, available only to those who buy the right supplements, trainers and cosmetics. We begin to believe that it is a body whose secret is shared discreetly among magazine editors and Instagram superstars only. We begin to believe that it is a body that belongs to other people. It is not *this* shameful body here, always here, beneath our clothes; the body whose shape we have to reveal if we want to experience the glorious freedom of running around a park on a spring day; the body whose flesh we have to expose if we want to feel the gleeful weightlessness of floating in the sea as the sun hits the water like sequins.”
― Alexandra Heminsley, Leap In: A Woman, Some Waves and the Will to Swim

“He yearned for water like it was his lover.”
― David Davis, Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku

“I need you to learn how to swim.”
― Alice Lorentino, Sisters of Vipers