Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old lake quotes, lake sayings, and lake proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.B.K.S. Iyengar
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I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.C.S. Lewis
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When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.Doris Lessing
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.Hamlin Garland
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When you’re working on a lake and it’s dark and cold out and you can’t see what’s underwater, it is freaking scary!Jessica Szohr
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Make your heart like a lake, with a calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.Lao Tzu
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I’m terrified to go in lakes because you can’t see the bottom, and not knowing what’s there watching you is really scary to me.Sara Paxton
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I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.Steven Tyler
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The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.Georges Simenon
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.Rumi
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If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.Sri Ravi Shankar
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.Wallace Stevens
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Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me.Heather Christle
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Looking out over the lake, I felt enveloped in the most peaceful, loving utopia.Laurie Kahn
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The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.Virginia Woolf
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The world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes in mystery.Fennel Hudson
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A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world.Munia Khan
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day / I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; / While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, / I hear it in the deep heart’s core.William Butler Yeats
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You are a broad white lake, / Silent. / On your surface people launch their brown sun-warmed souls. / Reflected in you, they see themselves / Tall, profound, mystical.Nelson Antrim Crawford