Message In A Bottle Quotes:

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Indira Gandhi (1975). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of endeavour, August 1969-August 1972”

topic: Easy, Message In A Bottle, Worthwhile

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.25, Hachette UK

topic: Heart, Watches, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

- Gene Tierney

source: "Self-portrait".

topic: Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Grateful, Loss, Journey, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

- Paul Newman

topic: Yesterday, Choices, Decision Making, Message In A Bottle, Yesterday And Tomorrow

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 1998.

topic: Song, Ocean, Singing, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.106, Hachette UK

topic: Life, Remember, Easy, Message In A Bottle

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

- Kevin J. Anderson

topic: Country, Ocean, Land, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.

- Bill Gothard

topic: Forever, Bottles, Sitting, Message In A Bottle, Enigmatic

At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Night, Way, Return, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.164, Hachette UK

topic: Relationship, Believe, Reality, Theresa, Message In A Bottle

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, People, Special, Special Someone, Message In A Bottle

Lately I been drinking like there's a message in a bottle

- Drake

topic: Drinking, Bottles, Messages, Message In A Bottle

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Hurt, Destiny, Realizing, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love You, Arms, Return, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love Is, Matter, Enough Time, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Blow, Destiny, Wind, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Missing Someone, Real, Sparking, Message In A Bottle

I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love You, Arms, Protect, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Regret, Feelings, Might, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Change, People, Rolling, Impermanence, Message In A Bottle

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Art, Believe, Dark, Message In A Bottle

Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Sleep, Car, Purpose, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Grief, Grieving, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Like You, Make You Happy, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Disappointment, Kids, Parenting, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.99, Hachette UK

topic: Live Life, Important, Ambitious, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.52, Hachette UK

topic: Life, Girl, Real, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.19, Hachette UK

topic: Anger, Sadness, Special, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

- Robert Breault

topic: Messages, Purpose, Bottles, Message In A Bottle, Blogs

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Aug 13, 2011

topic: Love, Thank You, Memories, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Song, World, Way, Message In A Bottle

The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

- Edward Hirsch

source: "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Land, Hopeful, Holocaust, Message In A Bottle

A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.

- Paul Celan

topic: Reality, Land, Hopeful, Message In A Bottle

You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.

- Isabel Allende

topic: Ocean, Book, Fall, Message In A Bottle

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

- Robert Charles Wilson

topic: Book, Ocean, Bottles, Message In A Bottle, Cork

The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

- Edward Hirsch

source: "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Mean, Ideas, Bottles, Message In A Bottle

I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Messages, Meals, Bottles, Message In A Bottle

I like trying jokes and seeing the response, and if I end up doing it in my act, it won't be 140 characters. Twitter is helpful that way to me. It's like a message in a bottle. But a lot of times I think I tweet the stuff I would like to say to teenage me.

- Sarah Silverman

source: "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

topic: Teenage, Character, Thinking, Message In A Bottle, 140 Character

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

- Heather Sellers

topic: Writing, Bottles, Messages, Message In A Bottle