Sea Quotes
Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...
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There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhance...
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The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices t...
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I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival si...
Show MoreI showed him the sea. It's a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bo...
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The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shorew...
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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...
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Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, whic...
Show MoreI, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...
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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...
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Kir stood close to his father, watching. He seemed, Peri realized, finally becalmed; already he look...
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I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler w...
Show MoreThere are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have ...
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It is a sea of blood. We come from the sea, Tim; our blood is salt, and strange tides ebb and flow w...
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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wr...
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An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite ...
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The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overco...
Show MoreThe sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.
That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't tha...
Show MoreEvery sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they ...
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She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...
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I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtat...
Show MoreThe winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...
Show MoreYou can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are...
Show MoreEventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out ...
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is wor...
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And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove ar...
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She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He taste...
Show MoreThe sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flo...
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There's never an end for the sea.
Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drin...
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The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; a...
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, t...
Show MoreAm I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I ...
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Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting ch...
Show MoreTell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap ...
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Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the c...
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As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
Show MoreI am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, crea...
Show MoreIt seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, b...
Show MoreSilence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimi...
Show MoreTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
They walked, and the long waves rolled and murmured rhythmically beside them; the fresh salty wind b...
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He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...
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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...
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A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for...
Show MoreAll things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunte...
Show MoreShandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...
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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
Show MoreOn the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...
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and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
Show Morehark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the...
Show MoreThe mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
Show MoreThere is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
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There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky...
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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it...
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The nights now are full of wind and destruction; the trees plunge and bend and their leaves fly helt...
Show MoreThe sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; n...
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The gruff murmur, irregularly broken by the taking out of pipes and the putting in of pipes which ha...
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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all o...
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It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fin...
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...
Show Moreat the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence...
Show MoreDarker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...
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But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...
Show MoreHe who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I a...
Show MoreI find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always ...
Show MoreWith lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea wh...
Show MoreIf you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command...
Show MoreDon't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the n...
Show MoreWe are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books wi...
Show MoreHence, in a season of calm weatherThough inland far we be,Our souls have sight of that immortal sea

Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because withi...
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Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold fl...
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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...
Show MoreLike bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...
Show MoreI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these mo...
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger la...
Show MoreThe fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
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