Waves Quotes

If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand.

~ Crystal Woods

People are like water: Many rush pass you, as some will over-flood. Some will drown you, or force you to go their current ways. Some will be cold or hot-tempered, but try to say with the warm ones. Some will come as a raging wave and cause a ripple, or a calm sea, supporting you, quenching your thirst, and flow by your side to where kisses will always stay wet.

~ Anthony Liccione

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.

~ David Mitchell

It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.

~ Steven Magee

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

~ Marina Keegan

[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and fall of all of it, the incoming and the outgoing, the infinite procession of life. And the ocean wraps the earth, a reminder. The mysteries come forward in waves.

~ Susan Casey

The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.

~ Kendall Kulper

Life is an ocean and waves are our paths.

~ Diana Matoso

The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won’t complain about her feminine energy.

~ Nityananda Das

The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Wait, the most positive and infinite word ever made. It can be for a moment,for a min,for an hour,for days, for years, for eternity ...and sometimes for another life .. But it never fails and never ends.One always waits for something or someone ... I am not a time which can not be stopped,Whenever you will want me .. I will be there !!!And this best explains the relation between a Wave and the Shore.

~ Sagar Gosavi

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

When I go to describe something as remarkable as what I saw that day, I could only say it was a place of dreams. The water is crystalline clear, a mixture of opalescent colors and frosted with white tips. It surges forward and crashes up against the rocks below us as the sun cast a fire-like glare in the distance. Adding to my reverie is the salty smell in the air that lingers and enlivens senses that seem to have been dormant before this moment. I don't recall moving in this dream-like state but my hand moves up and cups the wind as if trying to capture it's essence. If I could have pocketed every smell and sound of this place I would have and I would defended it with my life.

~ Celia Mcmahon

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again...

~ Virginia Woolf

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the fisherman bait the hooks, through them into the sea and sits looking at horizon, do not think he is doing nothing. He and all his senses are fully tensed. His eyes monitors the line, his ears picks the slightest sound of the rod, his heart beats in harmony with the waves and his mind plans further than you think

~ Sameh Elsayed

Love is like the sea. The waves of life, they ebb and flow; they come and go. Time sweeps us away from each other. Love always brings us back.

~ Kate Mcgahan

As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times…

~ James A. Murphy

Dear Waves,You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores!Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much?

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn't.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

Waves don't think, plan and prepare to better their rise after every fall. They are pristine as they are.

~ Pavitraa Parthasarathy

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

~ Mike May

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

~ Amy Purdy

When I first moved to Vail, it was like I was a little celebrity. You know, everyone knew my accomplishments. I was a young, fast teenager and making waves in the ski world. And it was really cool.

~ Lindsey Vonn

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

~ Tina Louise

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

~ Edward Gibbon

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.

~ Martin Rees

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

~ Santigold

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

~ William Shakespeare

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

~ Swami Sivananda

Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.

~ Danny Meyer

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

~ Josiah Royce

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

~ Hanna Rosin

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

~ Thomas Moore