58 Inspirational Water Quotes

Water, the elixir of life, holds a mystical allure that has inspired poets, philosophers, and dreamers throughout time. Its ability to soothe, heal, and transform life is unparalleled. In a world often caught in the hustle, taking a moment to reflect on the simple, yet profound, essence of water can be incredibly refreshing. Whether it's the ebb and flow of the tides or the gentle trickle of a stream, water speaks to the soul in a language as ancient as time itself. Dive into our curated collection of the top 58 inspirational water quotes and let them wash over your spirit, igniting hope, tranquility, and a deeper connection to the world around you.

1. “Dip him in the river who loves water.” - William Blake

2. “The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.” - Henry David Thoreau

3. “A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.” - William Wordsworth

4. “For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God.""It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor.""Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.” - Pam Houston

5. “Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.” - Jane Austen

6. “The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.” - Vera Nazarian

7. “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

8. “In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.” - Sue Ellen Campbell

9. “Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.” - Alison McGhee

10. “When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the words of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light.” - Anne Spollen

11. “Life in us is like the water in a river.” - Henry David Thoreau

12. “Water is the driving force in nature.” - Leonardo da Vinci

13. “The "old school" of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for the routine transfer of waste from on place to another. It also considers the accompanying organic material to be of little or no value. The "new school", on the other hand, sees water as a dwindling, precious resource that should not be polluted with waste; organic materials are seen as resources that should be constructively recycled. My research for this chapter included reviewing hundreds of research papers on alternative wastewater systems. I was amazed at the incredible amount of time and money that has gone into studying how to clean the water we have polluted with human excrement. In all of the research papers, without exception, the idea that we should simply stop defecating in water was never suggested.” - Joseph C. Jenkins

14. “We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.” - Deborah Smith

15. “You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.” - Yoko Ono

16. “The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.” - Georges Rodenbach

17. “Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.” - Dodie Smith

18. “You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.” - W.C. Fields

19. “In the desert, the only god is a well.” - Vera Nazarian

20. “If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.” - Rebecca Solnit

21. “High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.” - Mark Twain

22. “Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.” - Santosh Kalwar

23. “You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving.” - Cuthbert Soup

24. “…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)” - Mark Nepo

25. “Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.” - Patrick Ness

26. “I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze it.” - Nichita Stanescu

27. “Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.” - C. JoyBell C.

28. “And I feel like the Queen of Water. I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.” - Maria Virginia Farinango

29. “This couldn’t be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window, ruffled the feathers of a fat sea gull promenading on the pink rocks below. The breeze was full of evergreen spice.” - Dorothy Maywood Bird

30. “As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah is Swift in taking account.” - Anonymous

31. “A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” - Linda Gerber

32. “You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.” - Alysha Speer

33. “An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.” - Criss Jami

34. “It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.” - Brigham Young

35. “I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.” - Beyoncé Knowles

36. “You can’t imagine how much I regret what happened. For some reason, becauseof the type of relationship we had, I thought it was an acceptable training exercise; albeit a little extreme. But I’m not going to ask your forgiveness, I don’t want it. I mean to always remember my mistake, so I will never make it again.” (Micah to Kaitlyn)” - Terra Harmony

37. “Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.” - Franny Billingsley

38. “To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.” - Barbara Hurd

39. “…have poets write about you as if you are alive. Scientifically, it is absolutely true, you are alive. You have a pulse, the waves, and a metabolism, the food chain. A personality, a character, a consciousness, and a sense of purpose…try this- turn into spray, spin rainbows…wear down entire mountains and dump them in layers…gently surround marina sea grass twice a day, protecting and feeding thousands of crabs, ducks, and geese…fill human eyes with warm salt brine at least once a month… Becoming Water” - Susan Zwinger

40. “In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.” - China Miéville

41. “Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

42. “Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.” - Chet Raymo

43. “She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.” - Raymond Chandler

44. “Please stop shaking your rain water in my direction. What next? Are you going to come over here, cock your leg and urinate upon my person?” - Stephen J. Day

45. “A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents.” - China Miéville

46. “I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?” - Nathan Reese Maher

47. “Did Bach ever eatpancakes at midnight?” - Nathan Reese Maher

48. “Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.” - Nathan Reese Maher

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

50. “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

51. “I’m driving,” Louis-Cesare said, sliding into the low seat as easily as if he’d done it a hundred times. “You’re drunk.”I wished. “I had all of two beers, mostly for the water content.”“If you needed water, why didn’t you drink water?”“I don’t like water.” - Karen Chance

52. “There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul” - Sebastian Barry

53. “Water - a thoroughly underrated drink.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

54. “Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent.” - Andrew Fukuda

55. “Too often our visions of the futureare dull and impotentlike a hammer beating the water.” - Harley King

56. “If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.” - Michael J. McGuire

57. “Ratilais ant galų pirštų nubėgo vandeniu tyluma.” - Sergey Kozlov

58. “It's only water," she said."Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.” - Kristin Cashore