Sea Quotes

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  • “Time and tide wait for no man.” – Saint Marher
  • “There are no signposts in the sea.” – Vita Sackville-West
  • “The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.” – Anacreaon
  • “Ocean separates lands, not souls.” – Munia Khan
  • “Life is an ocean, fathom it.” – MK Soni
  • “Every drop in the ocean counts.” – Yoko Ono
  • “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” – J.K. Rowling
  • “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – William Wordsworth
  • “The oceans roar is music to the soul.”
  • “A rising tide lifts all boats”– Sean Lemass
  • You are the only fish in the sea for me.
  • “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov
  • “The sea is as near as we come to another world.” – Anne Stevenson
  • “The sea does not link to be restrained.”- Rick Riordan
  • “The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.” – Heinrich Heine
  • “Follow the river and you will find the sea.” – French Proverb
  • “The sea is a desert of waves, a wilderness of water.” – Langston Hughes
  • “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” – Cornelia Funke
  • “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” – Robin Lee Graham
  • “Let the waves carry you where the light cannot” – Mohit Kaushik
  • “The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” – Jill Davis
  • “The sea lives in every one of us.” – Robert Wyland
  • “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” – Karen Blixen
  • “The sea does not like to be restrained.”– Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
  • “Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” – Sylvia Earle
  • “In the beginning, there was only ocean.” – Disney’s Moana
  • “A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.” – Webb Chiles
  • “The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.” – Rachel Carson
  • “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.” – King Solomon
  • “Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.” – Bill Hybels
  • “The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.” –Enya
  • “There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught.” – Irish Proverb
  • “The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.” – Voltaire
  • “Where the land meets the sea and the sea meets the sky.” – Umair Siddiqui
  • “The sea drives truth into a man like salt.” – Hillaire Belloc
  • “The great sea makes one a great sceptic.” – Richard Jefferies
  • “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zan
  • “I feel we are all islands – in a common sea.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • “The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diole
  • “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
  • “The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.” – Annie Dillard
  • “Meet me where the sky touches the sea.”  – Jennifer Donnelly
  • “A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.”– Jacques Cousteau
  • “I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” – Anais Nin
  • “The ocean is everything I want to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild and free.”
  • “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
  • “Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.” –William Arthur Ward
  • “Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.” – William Stafford
  • “Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.” – George Matthew Adams
  • “The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” – Francis Stokes
  • “I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” – Alain Gerbeault
  • “Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison
  • “Is this chicken what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken of the Sea’.” – Jessica Simpson 🙂
  • “And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.” – Larry Ferguson
  • “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.“– Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  • “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came…” – John F. Kennedy
  • “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.” -Kahlil Gibran
  • “Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.” – A.D. Posey
  • “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” – William James
  • “There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.” – Khalil Gibran
  • “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
  • “There was magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it.” – Cecelia Ahern
  • “The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” – Jules Verne
  • “No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.” – Charles Kettering
  • “You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.” – Mitch Albom
  • “Life is as inexorable as the sea.” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • “Take me to the ocean. Let me sail the open sea. To breathe the warm and salty air and dream of things to be.” – Erica Billups
  • “Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” – Christy Ann Martine
  • “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
  • “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.” – Arthur C. Clarke
  • “Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.”
  • “We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” – Aristotle Onassis
  • “I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.” – Nnedi Okorafor
  • “Ocean: a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.” – Ambrose Bierce
  • “The sea complains upon a thousand shores.” – Alexander Smith
  • “Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world.” – The Beach Boys
  • “With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” – Sylvia Earle
  • “Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.”
  • “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” – Francis Bacon
  • “My soul is longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous, that ocean is not silent.” – Unknown
  • “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – franklin d. Roosevelt
  • “Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.” – Vanessa Paradis
  • “You can never cross the ocean until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
  • “A pool just isn’t the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.” – Linda Gerber
  • “We got no troubles, life is the bubbles, under the sea.” – The Little Mermaid, “Under the Sea”
  • “The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • “As a species, we’ve always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.” – Unknown
  • “She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.” – Holly Black
  • “In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.” –Rolf Edberg
  • “Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.” – HP Lovecraft
  • “When the seas are rough and disturbing, and the rowing seems always upstream, with a world of indifference to curb you, there’s always a hope and a dream.” – Greta Zwaan
  • “If you’re lucky enough to live by the sea, you’re lucky enough.”
  • “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
  • “To me, the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim–the rocks–the motion of the waves–the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?” – Walt Whitman
  • “But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean.” – HP Lovecraft
  • “It makes you feel small, but not in a bad way.  Small because you realize you’re part of something bigger.” – Lauren Myracle
  • “To me, the sea is like a person—like a child I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel like alone when I’m out there.” – Gertrude Ederle
  • “The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective.” – Beyoncé Knowles
  • “The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths, it has its pearls too.” – Vincent van Gogh
  • “What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.” – Cesare Pavese
  • “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
  • “Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.” – Carl Schurz