Swamps Quotes

• Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • Hell
  • Wet
  • Fiery

• In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Nature
  • Bird
  • Grass

• Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sea
  • Lament
  • Swamps

• The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.

  

  Mike Harding
  • Impression
  • Humorous
  • Enormous

• How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Heart
  • Regret
  • Gods

• That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Roots
  • Swamps