Sea Quotes

• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• Smell the sea and feel the sky.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sky

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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• Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

  Rumi

  Enjoy Life, Waiting, Sun

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• Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Love, Romantic, Sky

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Winter Rose”, p.767, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

  Alain Gerbault

  Adventure, Air, Sailing

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• Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

  Sarah Kay

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Healing, I Hate You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

  Dave Mustaine

  Brother, Land, Sheep

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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  Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

  Robert Henri

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sky, Want, Pure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.169, Penguin

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• There's never an end for the sea.

  Samuel Beckett

  Ends

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• The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

  Tim Winton

  Humanity, Determine, Future Of Humanity

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

  Ivan Panin

  Beautiful, Storm, Calm

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  At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

  Robin Lee Graham

  Sailing, Nautical, Needs

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• The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

  Bryan Procter

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

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• To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

  Rachel Carson

  Running, Moving, Years

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Sky, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• Calm seas never made a good sailor

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sailor, Calm, Made

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• When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beach, Confused, Ocean

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Strange, Edges

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eye, Yellow, Color

  Jorge Luis Borges, María Kodama (1985). “Aterstallaren”, E P Dutton

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• There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Soul, Literature

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.535, Velvet Element Books

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