Mermaid Quotes

• I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Fear, Depth

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• Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

  John Keats

  Weed, Dream, Sea

  John Keats, “The Eve Of St. Agnes”

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• But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Suffering, Tears

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid: English & Bulgarian”, p.10, Hans Christian Andersen

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• A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Winning, Destiny, Soul

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid”, p.28, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• 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

  Song, Stars, Sea

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 149

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• The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Miracle, Facts

  Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the Earth”

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• But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

  Shel Silverstein

  Life Lesson, Magic, Leprechaun

  Shel Silverstein, “Magic”

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• If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sea, Said, Ifs

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

  William Butler Yeats

  Swimming, Body, Lovers

  William Butler Yeats, “A Man Young And Old”

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• If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

  Tori Amos

  Drowning, Ifs

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• 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.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

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• Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Suffering, Tears

  Hans Christian Andersen (2012). “The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Aye, tough mermaids are, the lot of them.

  Blackbeard

  Tough

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• You got your own style, now let it come through. And remember no matter what, you got to be you.

  SebastiAn

  Style, Matter, Remember

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• Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

  Brian Selznick

  Dreamer, Tonight, Wizards

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• I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Thinking, Poetry

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 122 (1917)

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• I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don't know why I'm obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids.

  Ella Henderson

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• Souls of poets dead and gone,
  What Elysium have ye known,
  Happy field or mossy cavern,
  Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
  Have ye tippled drink more fine
  Than mine host's Canary wine?

  John Keats

  Wine, Soul, Elysium

  'Lines on the Mermaid Tavern' (1820)

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• I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

  Emily Dickinson

  Dog, Sea, Looks

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.11, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss. Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Wall, Love You, Kissing

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press

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• The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

  Charlie Munger

  Want, Way, Affluence

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• Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Swim, Earth, Soil

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press

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• I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Struggle, Heart, Leave Me Alone

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• I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

  Esther Williams

  Feet, Air, Gold

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