Well Quotes

“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love
genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that,
few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Be not sick too late, nor well too soon”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“In the desert, the only god is a well.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.

Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.

But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“She stooped for a stone and dropped it down.

'Fancy being where that is now,' she said, peering into the blackness; 'fancy going round and round like a mouse in a pail, clutching at the slimy sides, with the water filling your mouth, and looking up to the little patch of sky above.'

'You had better come in,' said Benson, very quietly. 'You are developing a taste for the morbid and horrible.' ("The Well")”
― W.W. Jacobs, Ghost Stories

“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“When things go well for days on end, it is an hilarious accident.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Letters

“And there were so many places to go. Thickets of bramble. Fallen trees. Ferns, and violets, and gorse, paths all lined with soft green moss. And in the very heart of the wood, there was a clearing, with a circle of stones, and an old well in the middle, next to a big dead oak tree, and everything- fallen branches, standing stones, even the well, with its rusty pump- draped and festooned and piled knee-high with ruffles and flounces of strawberries, with blackbirds picking over the fruit, and the scent like all of summer.
It wasn't like the rest of the farm. Narcisse's farm is very neat, with everything set out in its place. A little field for sunflowers: one for cabbages; one for squash; one for Jerusalem artichokes. Apple trees to one side; peaches and plums to the other. And in the polytunnels, there were daffodils, tulips, freesias; and in season, lettuce, tomatoes, beans. All neatly planted, in rows, with nets to keep the birds from stealing them.
But here there were no nets, or polytunnels, or windmills to frighten away the birds. Just that clearing of strawberries, and the old well in the circle of stones. There was no bucket in the well. Just the broken pump, and the trough, and a grate to cover the hole, which was very deep, and not quite straight, and filled with ferns and that swampy smell. And if you put your eye to the grate, you could see a roundel of sky reflected in the water, and little pink flowers growing out from between the cracks in the old stone. And there was a kind of draught coming up from under the ground, as if something was hiding there and breathing, very quietly.”
― Joanne Harris, The Strawberry Thief

“Your happiness is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of people around you! You matter; others also matter! Live life so well!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms

“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch Rhiwfelen (Denbigh) St Collen fought and killed a cannibal giantess, afterwards washing away the blood-stains in a well later known as Ffynnon Gollen. In Ireland, the tales of saints slaying giant serpents may have the same meaning; alternatively they (or some of them) may refer to early sightings of genuine water monsters. St Barry banished a serpent from a mountain into Lough Lagan (Roscommon), and a holy well sprang up where the saint's knee touched the ground.”
― Colin Bord, Sacred Waters

“The few cures we have recorded could be multiplied many times over, many of them experienced by people who had failed to find relief through conventional medical treatment. If a story from Scotland is to be believed, the success of one holy well, St. Drostan's at Newdosk (Angus), was so distasteful to the local doctors that they decided to poison the well. When the people heard of their intention, they banded together to attack and kill the doctors!”
― Colin Bord, Sacred Waters

“Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I wish my cheating ex well and I am glad she is out of my life!”
― Steven Magee

“Mental illness and gun ownership do not mix well!”
― Steven Magee

“Did you not hear me? The money is meaningless. The well's true treasure is in the desires, dreams, and wishes poured into those coins. That's what you stole.”
― Jake Wyatt

“My sadness is a thousand-foot well; gratitude is a rope keeping me from drowning.”
― Anne Marie Wells, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“Kirie didn’t know that he was a frog stuck at the bottom of a well. He didn’t even comprehend the nature of this dumping ground in which he vented his excessive passions. He grasped only the illusions crawling out of the bottom of a bottle of stout as he gasped for air.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger

“I was in a relationship with a lady for a decade that had a therapist. It did not end well!”
― Steven Magee

“We are well to work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“For a woman who had been tortured and tormented for months, I looked remarkably well.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“If we are well, we must work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The worth of a man is to work while he well.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“And he said...

...keep the well moist lest the water runs dry.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You won't want to be standing when you hear what I have to say. For that matter, I bloody well don't want to be standing myself.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“When a man values his well being, he begins to live well.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“All wisdom is drawn from the same well.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru