Sea Quotes

The calm skies that drifted above us lulled us into thinking this traversée would be smooth, but after several hours, the unsteady sea had taken its toll on me and after a light lunch and a brief swim in the open sea failed to do so, I attempted to remedy my mal de mer with rest. When I awoke, the sun had already set and the cool air and soft light of twilight helped recalibrate my disoriented thoughts. Although my seasickness had subsided, I lay starboard side facing the heavens - that were now a deep shade of purple - so as to not provoke another episode. We set to anchoring behind several large volcanic pillars just a stone’s-throw away from where the Tyrrhenian Sea kissed the east of the island. A handful of wishes scattered the skies as we approached the shores of Aci Trezza. As these stars traced their dying song across the void above, part of me felt ashamed for even entertaining the notion of wishing upon a star, but that voice was speedily silenced by words He had once shared with me in Scotland: “There is always some truth to fiction.

~ Rj Arkhipov

Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself.

~ Somya Kedia

Yes,it is remarkable how far a person can travel by sea.

~ S.l. Whyte

In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?

~ Haruki Murakami

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

~ Keri Hulme

I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me

~ Kahlil Gibran

Meaning comes from the unknown, from the stranger, from the unpredictable that suddenly knocks at your door — a flower that suddenly blooms and you never expected it; a friend that suddenly happens to be on the street you were not waiting for; a love that blooms suddenly and you were not even aware that this was going to happen, you had not even imagined, not even dreamed. Then life has meaning. Then life has a dance. Then every step is happy because it is not a step filled with duty, it is a step moving into the unknown. The river is going towards the sea.

~ Osho

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

~ Homer

All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee.

~ Roman Payne

We all have a sea inside us, can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

~ Dianna Hardy

Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

~ Peter Benchley

Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.

~ Lawren Leo

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

When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

Merciful God! sighed the General. We've arrived. And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food.

~ Andrew Rayner

Thus was this expedition finished...after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth; that though prudence, intrepidity and perseverence united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful.Voyage Around The World, 1751

~ George Anson

On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. Death is the dry place.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me.We must have a turn together,I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,Cushion me soft, rock me billowy drowse,Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.

~ Walt Whitman

It isn’t always the treasure that drives men down deep into the sea; it’s something else, something unexplainable, even to them.

~ Jennifer Arnett

In all the flames of fire fume’s left the traceInto the bluest sea the sky is drownedThe miracles of life can you embraceFrom the poem 'Can You Embrace?

~ Munia Khan

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?

~ Kristen Henderson

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

~ Munia Khan

But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden

~ William Carlos Williams

I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me

~ Laurie Matthew

But during those two months of fog . . . the saddest and the heaviest thing was to stand beside the sea. To be upon the beach yourself, and see the long waves coming in; to know that they are long waves, but only see a piece of them. And to hear them lifting roundly, swelling over smooth green rocks, plashing down in the hollow corners, but bearing on all the same as ever, soft and sleek and sorrowful, till their little noise is over.

~ R.d. Blackmore

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

~ Ben Marcus

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.

~ Herman Melville

tread carefullyinto my life, my dear.the currents are strong.you will get lostin this warm oceanof my skin.

~ Sanober Khan

Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me.

~ نزار قباني

...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea...

~ John Geddes

The toxicity of medical and industrial gas to the human depends on where it is used. A gas that is regarded as safe in a well ventilated environment at sea level may be a toxic gas in an indoor environment at high altitude.

~ Steven Magee

she's gotoceanstucked awayin her hairpoems swimunder her skin.

~ Sanober Khan

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End.

~ Wilkie Collins

She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again.

~ Glenda Millard

I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

~ Yann Rousselot

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

~ Terry Pratchett