Sea Quotes

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and only declare...

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's becaus...

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a ...

Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulo...

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the su...

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open se...

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up ...

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its se...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage,...

The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage ...

And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is r...

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in...

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the s...

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled b...

He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lo...

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw tw...

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healt...

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Lov...

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ...

You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don...

Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man mark...

In the sea, Corr’s clumsiness will disappear, his weight cradled by the saltwater. I don’t want to s...

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...

There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhance...

The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices t...

I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival si...

I showed him the sea. It's a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bo...

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shorew...

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, whic...

I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

Kir stood close to his father, watching. He seemed, Peri realized, finally becalmed; already he look...

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler w...

There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have ...

It is a sea of blood. We come from the sea, Tim; our blood is salt, and strange tides ebb and flow w...

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wr...

An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite ...

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overco...

The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.

That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't tha...

Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they ...

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...

I have observed on board a steamer how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtat...

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are...

Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out ...

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is wor...

And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove ar...

She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He taste...

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flo...

There's never an end for the sea.

Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drin...

The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; a...

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, t...

Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I ...

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting ch...

Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap ...

Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the c...

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, crea...

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, b...

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

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimi...

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

They walked, and the long waves rolled and murmured rhythmically beside them; the fresh salty wind b...

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...

A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for...

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunte...

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...

On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the...

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...

There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky...

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it...

The nights now are full of wind and destruction; the trees plunge and bend and their leaves fly helt...

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; n...

The gruff murmur, irregularly broken by the taking out of pipes and the putting in of pipes which ha...