Ocean Sea Quotes

• 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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• 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.

  Gertrude Ederle

  Beach, Children, Crazy

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Sea

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.45, Library of America

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• The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

  Vera Nazarian

  Ocean, Sea, Skins

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• We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Ocean, Knowledge

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Pirate

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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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, Sea

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

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  The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

  Jules Verne

  Lonely, Ocean, Men

  Jules Verne (2015). “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories”, p.49, 谷月社

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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

  William Cowper

  God, Beach, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

  Tristan Jones

  Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

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• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Smell the sea and feel the sky.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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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, Sea

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

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• 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, Sea

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

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• The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

  James Carlton

  Ocean, Years, Sea

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• The sea is as near as we come to another world.

  Anne Stevenson

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.189

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, People

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• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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