Ocean Quotes

Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?

~ Maria Elena

There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn't for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just the massacre there, the slavery, but the killing of the ocean.

~ Linda Hogan

Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...

~ Keri Hulme

The endless ocean was his sole companion , and on some deeply sentimental level, it seemed sufficient. Almost apt. He aligned himself with Thoreau and Tolstoy, he felt like their peers. The kinship with nature devoted humans to a mythical state, a heightened persona beyond the reach of mere mortals. At least that was what he told himself on the lonely nights when insomnia played on his fears and the howling wind pierced through his soul.

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

Explore the deep ocean.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.

~ Sara Sheridan

A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk caught by the breeze as they headed out to sea. Behind them, the sky was the colour of forget-me-nots. The sun blazed.

~ Sara Sheridan

Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface of green ocean water at twenty knots. At fifty tons it is the largest carnivore on earth. Imagine a four-hundred-pound heart the size of a chest of drawers driving five gallons of blood at a stroke through its aorta; a meal of forty salmon moving slowly down twelve-hundred feet of intestine…the sperm whale’s brain is larger than the brain of any other creature that ever lived…With skin as sensitive as the inside of your wrist.

~ Barry López

At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his boat, light as a birch canoe; and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves, that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale; these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

~ Herman Melville

You don't need an ocean to feel like you're drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.

~ Malak El Halabi

I am sitting here, staring at the dark sky and drunk with memories. laughing like a maniac while crying an ocean. Somewhere it feels like somebody is kissing my lips passionately. While they are continuously pushing a knife, deep into my chest.

~ Akshay Vasu

No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.

~ Ondjaki

All the drain leads to the ocean...So chill out and enjoy the motion!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

~ David Byrne

I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail For the heart's treasure, together we set sail With no maps to guide us, we steered our own course Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope Working together, we learned how to cope. Life is an ocean and love it a boat In troubled waters it keeps us afloat When we started the voyage there was just me and you Now gathered round us we have our own crew Together we're in this relationship We built it with care to last the whole trip Our true destination's not marked on any chart We're navigating the shores of the heart

~ John Mcdermott

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

~ Bob Dylan

Into the sea I’d love to sink When with both eyes a shark can blinkIs he a brave fish or a marine man?Through those closed eyelids my heart will he scan?

~ Munia Khan

When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside.

~ John Mark Green

my dear,we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede.

~ Sanober Khan

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

~ Viraj J. Mahajan

She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling then. But love...above all relationships knows no age.

~ Viraj J. Mahajan

These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

~ Viraj J. Mahajan

There are so many moments in our life which we cannot describe with mere words. There are not enough adjectives to justify the emotions behind such moments. Those moments are your life- they define who you truly are

~ Viraj J. Mahajan

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, 'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.' Davies pushed a stray lock of hair back from his forehead and sat down on the rower's thwart. 'My dear fellow consider it done.

~ Tim Powers

A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfar’s heart. It was the first she had heard of the sea farms lying in the path of danger. She wondered what had befallen a different Norseman of her acquaintance. Had her poor bodyguard, Finn, perished in one of those raids?

~ Jennifer Mckeithen

Far, far out on the open sea a platform of stone held firm against the tossing waves. At first sight, it appeared as nothing out of the ordinary, other than that it lay in the middle of nowhere.That was the view on the surface. Beneath the water existed an entirely alien world.

~ Jennifer Mckeithen

Luke would always remember the day of his drowning

~ Alison Cooklin

Sleeping AtlantisSilent cool watersdancing upon her skin ~silent cool waterushering dreams within...

~ Muse

Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops.

~ Amit Kalantri

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

~ Cristina García

The quite person's mind is a raging ocean!

~ Sanjai Velayudhan

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

~ Munia Khan

Endless ocean, blue water, dreamy sky, tranquil beach, love in the air, mind fly high.

~ Debasish Mridha

She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.

~ Caroline B. Cooney

Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, water systems, subdue the power of the ocean thereby give glory to God almighty

~ Sunday Adelaja

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface.The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.Inside out and outside in. These are worlds of things that implode or explode, and the only catalyst that determines the direction of eco-movement is the balance of water.Both worlds are deceptive, dangerous. Both, seething with hidden life.The only veil that stands between perception of what is underneath the desolate surface is your courage.Dare to breach the surface and sink.

~ Vera Nazarian

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so... I don't know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger.

~ Lauren Myracle

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

~ Criss Jami