Quotes about sea

Richard Francis Burton -

Little islands are all large prisons one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Joe Dunthorne -

I am drawn to the ocean I find solace in its mystery.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Professor and the Siren

…They're dangerous as all gifts from the sea are the sea offers death as well as immortality.

Munia Khan -

My pond life with hydra is over now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..

C.S. Woolley - A Thief in Stickleback Hollow

The boat from India was a crowded place all long sea voyages on boats feel crowded. When you are stuck at sea for weeks there is nowhere to escape from people.

Dianna Hardy - Cry Of The Wolf

We all have a sea inside us can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

-Tyler Knott Gregson- -

When you have swam in the seaa lake will no longer doeveryone else has been a pondbut the ocean was always you.

Aisha Tyler -

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

Aleqa Hammond -

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

Sylvia Earle -

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

Thomas Jefferson -

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Robert Ballard -

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Billy Graham -

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

John Updike -

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Jose Saramago -

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Saint Augustine -

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Thomas Jefferson -

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Twinkle Khanna -

I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.

Lynn Good -

I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.

Malcolm Turnbull -

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

Trent Reznor -

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Tavis Smiley -

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Daniel Dennett -

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

Gertrude Ederle -

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

Michael Paterniti -

Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land of the Eagles,' relax. You're not alone.

William Shakespeare -

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Stephen Gardiner -

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

John O'Donohue -

I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.

Richard Preston -

Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.

Victor Hugo -

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Pericles -

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Paulo Coelho - The Witch Of Portobello

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

James Baldwin -

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Kelli Russell Agodon - Hourglass Museum

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.

Malak El Halabi -

The sea is in your eyes. Your face is an eternal summer. Whoever told you otherwise is a fool!

Betsy Cornwell - Tides

It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.No one swims only in the shallow water.

Nina George - The Little Paris Bookshop

And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!

Anthony Liccione -

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

Frederick Marryat - The Pirate

To those who have been accustomed to the difficulties and dangers of a sea-faring life, there are no lines which speak more forcibly to the imagination, or prove the beauty and power of the Greek poet, than those in the noble prayer of Ajax:"Lord of earth and air,O king! O father! hear my humble prayer.Dispel this cloud, that light of heaven restore;Give me to see - and Ajax asks no more,If Greece must perish - we Thy will obey;But let us perish in the face of day!

Moonshine Noire -

Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression like an ocean, unsurmountable. It swallows me whole and gnaws at my very bones. It floods me over and over, drowning me over and over... It is a torturous broken record player with a scratched disc on repeat, the wailing disrupting any possible good remaining after the tsunami. It wails and wails inside my ribcage and inside my skull. I can

Sylvia Plath -

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

Robin Morgan -

She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He tasted this river his own eyes had rained."It tastes of salt!" he exclaimed. "It tastes like the sea!""Mine too!" she laughed through her own tears, and he touched and tasted hers as well. "It's as if humans kept a sign of the mother sea in ourselves, a secret token of grief or gladness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

Paula McLain - The Paris Wife

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Jennifer Lynch - SHADES OF KEFALONIA: Meditations

Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through our imagination.

Hélène Cixous - The Book of Promethea

It is because of this sea between us. The earth has never, up to now, separated us. But, ever since yesterday, there has been something in this nonetheless real, perfectly Atlantic, salty, slightly rough sea that has cast a spell on me. And every time I think about Promethea, I see her crossing this great expanse by boat and soon, alas, a storm comes up, my memory clouds over, in a flash there are shipwrecks, I cannot even cry out, my mouth is full of saltwater sobs. I am flooded with vague, dec

F.T. McKinstry - The Gray Isles

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

Marcel Proust - The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul, it is an infinite and impotent striving, a strength that is ceaselessly broken by falls, an eternal and exquisite lament. The sea thus enchants us like music, which, unlike language, never bears the traces of things, never tells us anything about human beings, but imitates the stirrings of the soul. Sweeping up with the waves of those movements, plunging back with

Brian Andreas - Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

Adelaide Crapsey - Verse by Adelaide Crapsey

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood.

Rachel Lewis - Alone Upon the Sea

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

Nikita Dudani -

Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it.

Shelley Noble - Beach Colors

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache -

The moment you realize that no matter how far away in the sea you look for the love you desire, it is impossible for you to reach it without exploring the deepness within, then you will either walk on the surface or sink deeply. The light will guide you nevertheless.

Dianna Hardy - Rise Of The Wolf

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.

Kirsty Logan - The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

The graces are restless today. They pweet and muss, shuddering their wings so that the feathers stick out at defensive angles. I feel that restlessness too. When the sea is fractious like this – when it chutters and schwaks against the moorings, when it won't talk but only mumbles – it's difficult to think.

Carsten Jensen -

... The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.

Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie

It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.

Jack London - The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for you?" "Sell me your sea- boots, Mr. Fay," says O'Sullivan, polite as can be. "But what will you be wantin' of them?" says I. "'Twill be a great favour," says O'Sullivan. "But it's my only pair," says I; "and you have a pair of your own," says I. "Mr. Fay, I'll be needin' me own in bad weather," says O'Sullivan. "Besides," says I, "you have no money." "I'll pay for them when we pay off in Seattle,"

John F. Kennedy -

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the s

Anthony T. Hincks -

Every person is an island in the sea of humanity.

Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth

You take a straight tip from the stable, Cokey, if you must hate, hate the government or the people or the sea or men, but don't hate an individual person. Who's done you a real injury. Next thing you know he'll be getting into your beer like prussic acid; and blotting out your eyes like a cataract and screaming in your ears like a brain tumour and boiling round your heart like melted lead and ramping though your guts like a cancer. And a nice fool you'd look if he knew. It would make him laugh

Annie Dillard - Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.

Herman Melville - The Whale

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

Akshay Vasu -

And the moment she held that diary in her hands, she summoned all her demons at once. The moment she opened it a hand from every page held her and pulled her inside. And in a moment even before she could realize what was happening to her she was drowning in the sea, fighting to breathe and fighting to swim back to the surface. But the hands kept pulling her down deep into the darkness until her voice died slowly.

Peter Benchley - Jaws

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

William James -

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Avijeet Das -

She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!

Avijeet Das -

I don't need the sea to drown in, your eyes are enough for me!

Jocelyn Murray - The English Pirate

Life is like the sea. Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed

Brian Selznick - The Marvels

Standing on the roof at night, beside the golden shipI look across the city and I dream a wild trip.The waves are high, the wind is strong, the moon is white and full.I smell the salt upon the sea, a strong magnetic pull.I shout into the endless dark, awaiting the reply:'Away! Away' It says: 'Away! Now spread your wings and fly.

J.A. Clement - On Dark Shores: The Lady

It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep.

Sunday Adelaja -

To Be Filled With The Knowledge Of God’s Glory Is To Be As The Water Cover The Sea

Rachel Nicole Wagner -

~Tonight's Sea~Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze With our hearts. Today, I am restless, Waiting for tonight's meet. I cannot believe how endlessThese hours can be. I hope the constellationsAre aligned. For tonight we'll seeWhere our connection wanders. I'll hold on to this dream. My grip isn't fading. My memory isn't gone. Tonight we will be wadingIn the sea waters of love. -Rachel Nicole Wagner Original

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.

Robert G. Ingersoll -

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

Munia Khan -

Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands

Charlotte M. Liebel -

OvermodulationBy Charlotte M Liebel-FawlsYou're a cavity in my oasis,You're a porthole in my sea,You're a stretch of the imagination every time you look at me.You're an ocean in my wineglass,You're a Steinway on the beach,You're a captivating audience, an exciting Rembrandt,A Masterpiece.

Alessandro Baricco - Ocean Sea

…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a father, a lover, someone- able to take us by the hand and find that river -imagine it, invent it- and put us on its stream, with the lightness of one only word, goodbye. This, really, would be wonderful. It would be sweet, life, every life. And things wouldn’t hurt, but they would get near taken by stream, one could first shave and then touch them and only finally be touched. Be wounded, also.

Anne Carson - Decreation

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Rachel Carson -

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Stephen Crane - Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys.

Melody Lee - Moon Gypsy

My hair smells of oceanic windMy eyes are two starfishThe charming, turquoise seais seducing meThe rhythms of the calmingCrashing waves are my guide Omnipotent, almost holy,They seek to cleanse my polluted soulHere, by the seductive sea,I am unshackled. I am free.I am me.

Malcolm Lowry - Ultramarine

Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's pr

A.D. Posey -

Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.

Sena Jeter Naslund -

How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as it does, indeed, during the chase itself of whales. I can swear it, having done both, and I will tell YOU though other writers may not. My heart is beating fast; I am in pursuit; I want my victory--that you should see and hear and above all feel the reality behind these words. For they are but a mask. Not the mask that conceals, not a mask that I would have you strike through as

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Who can count the sand by the sea?

Israelmore Ayivor - Six Words Inspiration

Only foolish fishes wish to fly!

James Kidd -

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

Frank Herbert - Dune

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

Erik Pevernagie -

The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea shield us from the raging furies and shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, creating an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world. ("Voices of the sea" )

Mehmet Murat ildan -

You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!

Ruta Sepetys - Salt to the Sea

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

Munia Khan -

When the tidal waves wildly behavingMy bare feet on the shore busy savingThe calm warmth leaking out of the sandTo let my heart feel peacefully tanned!

Munia Khan -

Into the sea I’d love to sink When with both eyes a shark can blinkIs he a brave fish or a marine man?Through those closed eyelids my heart will he scan?

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