AniaR
08-04-2011, 01:29 PM
I wanted to share some great mermaid quotes I found and open up this thread for people to post their own as well as their favourite inspirational quotes!
"I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!"
— C. JoyBell C. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4114218.C_JoyBell_C_)
"Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot."
— Margot Datz (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/942372.Margot_Datz) (A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2081376))
(http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18540.T_S_Eliot) "I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
— T.S. Eliot (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18540.T_S_Eliot)
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7190.Ana_s_Nin)
“I have a new respect for the mermaids, ... because it's very tough what they do.” - Gaz Coombes
“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.” - William Butler Yeats
I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.
- William Shakespeare
Thou rememb'rest
Since once I sat upon a promontory
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.
- William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Oberon at II, i)
O train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears!
- William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
(Antipholus of Syracuse at III, ii)
Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb I would sing and say,
"Who is it loves me? who loves not me?"
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Mermaid
Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw,
Betwixt the green brink and the running foam,
Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest
To little harps of gold; and while they mused
Whispering to each other half in fear,
Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Sea Fairies
"I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!"
— C. JoyBell C. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4114218.C_JoyBell_C_)
"Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot."
— Margot Datz (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/942372.Margot_Datz) (A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2081376))
(http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18540.T_S_Eliot) "I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown."
— T.S. Eliot (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18540.T_S_Eliot)
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
— Anaïs Nin (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7190.Ana_s_Nin)
“I have a new respect for the mermaids, ... because it's very tough what they do.” - Gaz Coombes
“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.” - William Butler Yeats
I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.
- William Shakespeare
Thou rememb'rest
Since once I sat upon a promontory
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song,
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.
- William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Oberon at II, i)
O train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears!
- William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
(Antipholus of Syracuse at III, ii)
Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb I would sing and say,
"Who is it loves me? who loves not me?"
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Mermaid
Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw,
Betwixt the green brink and the running foam,
Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest
To little harps of gold; and while they mused
Whispering to each other half in fear,
Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Sea Fairies