Sea Quotes - Page 8

• I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Struggle, Effort

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'

  Barry Long

  Life, Lying, Drinking

  "Love is not a feeling" by Barry Long, What is Enlightenment magazine, Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.

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• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Respect, Ocean, People

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sea is certainly common to all.

  Plautus

  Ships, Common

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

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Men, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

  Thomas Fleming Day

  Cooking, Sailing, Together

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• Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

  William Stafford

  Beach, Believe, Ocean

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don't believe her.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Believe, Don't Believe

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.121, Scholastic UK

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• I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Mean, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Water, Different, Source

  "Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God".

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• It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Law, Civilization

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

  Tim Winton

  World, End Of The World, Ends

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.

  Herman Melville

  Memories, Son, Past

  Herman Melville (1856). “The Piazza Tales”, p.267

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• It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Ocean, Cutting, World

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”

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• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Frank Yerby

  New Orleans, Rivers, Yellow

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• A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Library, Frozen

  Letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 Jan. 1904

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Sports, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

  Paul Cayard

  Sailing, Earth, Lasts

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sadness, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

  George R. R. Martin

  Weary

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2659, Bantam

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• Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?

  Robert Bridges

  Sky, White, Quests

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
  'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand.
  Secure, insensible.

  Charles Wesley

  Life, Land, Two

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.93, Ravenio Books

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• A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, People, Making Love

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• At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Ocean, Sunset, Mean

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