Tempest Quotes

“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams
play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?”
― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach
in a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in the
darkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“Pour on, I will endure.”
― William Shakespeare

“And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantment of visions that crowd in on each other, just how fragile a handhold, how tenuous a boundary separates us from darkness - we are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and are often all but extinguished. Then the muted sounds of battle surrounds us, and we creep into ourselves and stare wide-eyed into the night.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“History doesn’t start with a tall building
and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone is taking
us for suckers and is playing a mean game.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“I swear to the gods that if you answer one more of my questions with a question, I am going to go all Tyson and bite your damned ear off...”
― Nicole Peeler, Tempest's Legacy

“She leaves my side and heads deeper into
the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a
copper for those they ask, a diamond for those who stay.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands limp at my direction, pointing out the coming shadows and I cannot help but hear a muffled sigh as she decapitates her latest creation with a single push of her hand.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“My storm is my own...Enter if you dare. However, bear in mind that the tempest of desire is fraught with unpredictability from the highest peaks to the depths of the abyss. Do not expect a smooth ride, but expect a true and passionate one...”
― Virginia Alison

“He lifted his eyes. They were the color of the deepest heart of hurricane clouds, deeper blue than the sky behind him.”
― Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm

“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right
mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going to fly in my Model-A1’.
People would much rather say, ‘Get in my whirly-gig’. And that’s what you
should name it.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.”
― Thomas Hardy

“Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.”
From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.”
Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“But doth must suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy.”
― V.S. Carnes

“Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...”
― Virginia Alison

“All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task
Ariel and all his quality”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Noi suntem din plămada din care sunt făcute visele
Şi scurta noastră viaţă o întregeşte un somn.”
― William Shakespeare

“Beyond all limit of what else i' the world
Do love, prize, honour you.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel

“We paused and moved again in languid fits, and it went on like that, advancing and sitting, until the tempests left and the overcast passed us; then the sun appeared, and a rainbow arched behind us.

But the rainbow brought no respite.”
― Milan Sime Martinic, Ironway: Watching Over Benjamin Hill -

“PROSPERO: Veseo budi. Naša zabava
Svršena je sada. Naši su igrači
Duhovi bili, i iščezli su sad
U nevidljivi vazduh. Ko nesuštastveno
Tkivo te vizije, tako će i kule
Visoke, i divni dvorci, i svečani
Hramovi, i sama lopta zemljina,
I sve na njoj, nestati ko ova
Iščezla, nestvarna povorka, i neće
Za sobom nikakav ostaviti trag.
Mi smo građa od koje se prave
Snovi, i naš mali život nam je snom
Zaokružen. (...)”
― Vilijam Šekspir

“Good wombs have borne bad sons.”
― William Shakespeare

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on”
― Wiliam Shakespeare, THE TEMPEST

“You should be called Temptation instead of Tempest.”
― Jane Washington, A Dream of Embers