A Quote by Rumi
The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.
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The intellectual is always showing off,
the lover is always getting lost.
The intellectual runs away.
afraid of drowning;
the whole business of love
is to drown in the sea.
Intellectuals plan their repose;
lovers are ashamed to rest.
The lover is always alone.
even surrounded by people;
like water and oil, he remains apart.
The man who goes to the trouble
of giving advice to a lover
get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.
Drowning in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown.
I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
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.
I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown.
That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape
I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.
The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.
It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.
What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.
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