Ocean Quotes - Page 33

• I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before

  Heraclitus

  Believe, Land, Essence

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• From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

  Rumi

  Moving, Want, Way

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• After the clinch, it doesn't matter what happens, one way or another, we're going to hit the ground, and we'll be in my world. The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim.

  Carlos Machado

  Sharks, People, Swim

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• Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

  Mao Zedong

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

  Perry Como

  Morning, Kids, Fishing

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• The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Heart, Guilty

  Octavius Winslow (1848). “Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul”, p.231

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• The green grass floweth like a stream
  Into the oceans's blue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blue, Green, Grass

  James Russell Lowell, “The Sirens”

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• I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

  Joseph Addison

  Noble, Immense

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.105

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• The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Storm, Encounters, World

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• The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wrinkles, Sea, Sky

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.3, Virginia Woolf

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• When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Feet, Hands

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

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• Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Friendship, Limits, Mysterious

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• All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Swimmer, Ifs

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• Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Greatness, Silence, Elements

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

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• the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

  Marianne Moore

  Sea, Looks, Return

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.58, Macmillan

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• The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Soul, Hammers, Elements

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• The ocean is made of drops.

  Mother Teresa

  Made, Small Things

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• The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

  Agatha Christie

  Pregnancy, Voyages, Nine

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Three, Earth

  Robert Montgomery (1832). “Messiah”

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• Somewhat of goodness, something true
  From sun and spirit shining through
  All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark
  Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark,
  Attests the presence everywhere
  Of love and providential care.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dark, Shining, World

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.346

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• The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.

  Tacitus

  Our World, Race, Land

  Tacitus (1851). “Germania by Tacitus”, p.2, Charles River Editors

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• Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
  Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
  Smote the surrounding fields.

  Homer

  Morning, Heaven, Rays

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.193

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• The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

  Brian Boyle

  Lists, Areas

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• [The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

  Marya Mannes

  Fighting, Self, Sea

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• All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.235, Penguin

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