Sea Quotes - Page 5

• The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

  Christopher Paolini

  Beach, Nature, Hate

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

  Langston Hughes

  Let Down, Life Is, Bigs

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Big Sea: An Autobiography”, p.335, Hill and Wang

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• The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sky, Needs, Difficult

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Beach, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• The sea hates a coward.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Inspirational, Funny, Hate

  'Mourning becomes Electra' (1931) pt. 2, act 4

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• My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

  Sting

  Emotion, Logic

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Oil And Water, Dry Up

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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• My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Boat, Bark

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

  George Herbert

  Prayer, Ocean, Praying

  Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously, 1651).

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• The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ocean, Sky, Golden

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.89

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• Spirits rise as the sails fill...
  Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
  Close the hatches and ports!
  We're sailing again!

  Jim Moore

  Sailing, Nautical, Gone

  Jim Moore (1996). “By Way of the Wind”, p.105, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.

  William Wordsworth

  Ocean, Sight, Soul

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Joy, Sorrow, Wave

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Mar 16, 2013

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• The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

  Annie Dillard

  Beach, Ocean, Ocean Sea

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dream, Travel, Home

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• Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

  Sarah T. Bolton

  Single, May, Being True

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• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Land, Fit

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.413

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• The sea is not a bargain basement.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Basements, Bargains

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• The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Land, Empires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2291, Delphi Classics

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• I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

  Bram Stoker

  I Hate You, Air, Together

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.61, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Ocean, Moving, Sight

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