Inspiring lake quotes and sayings

Last Updated on 02/09/2024

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Discover inspiring lake quotes and sayings that express their beauty and their reflecting tranquility when visiting these wonderful landscapes. There is a great chance to feel more peaceful and tranquil when visiting a lake. From the clear blue of the sky and water to the reflections and the green of the fields around, the eye is traveling in tranquility and silence. And, the combination of different elements and colors with the stunning view creates an uplifting feeling. So, a walk around a lake can make everyone feel so great, even for the simplest things. In this post, you will find nineteen favorite lake quotes to inspire all these calming feelings.

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Inspiring lake quotes and sayings

There are specific words that come first in our mind when we want to describe the lake vibes. Serenity, tranquility, peacefulness, and beauty in nature, are some of them. Thus, whether it’s a long or a short lake quote, they all try to express the magnificent landscape that lakes offer despite their size. And, that’s why we find lake references to literature and poetry of different styles and times. From Pablo Neruda and Rumi to Jack Kerouac, Haruki Murakami, and J.K. Rowling lake is a notion that represents a calming place with a spectacular view.

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”

― Rumi

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”

― Wallace Stevens

“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, “God, I love you” and looked to the sky and really meant it.” 

― Jack Kerouac

“It’s like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful.”

― Haruki Murakami

“Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.”

― Fernando Pessoa

“When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

― William Wordsworth

“So you keep your ocean, I’ll take the lake.”

― Colleen Hoover

“Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?”

― Pablo Neruda

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“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”

― Buddha

“You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe.”

― Stephen King

“Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”

― Maya Angelou

“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”

― Albert Schweitzer

“And your eyes – they’re the color of a forest lake shaded by evergreens.” 

― Cinda Williams Chima

“Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.”

― J.K.Rowling

 “Before him was the shining sky, below him the lake, around him the horizon, bright and infinite, as if it went on forever.” 

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

“Love has no culture, boundaries, race and religion. It is pure and beautiful like early morning sunrise falling in lake.”

― Santosh Kalwar

“No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can’t you must take them as they are.”

― Confucius

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