Sea Quotes
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Sea Quotes & Sayings
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Land has its pirates, same as the sea,
— Scott Lynch
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.
— Jordan Sonnenblick
An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
— Rudyard Kipling
If you have a sea of regrets you will drown in them.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Humans long to cross the sea, to visit strange lands and see wonders undreamed of. Cats - well, most cats - do not.
— Lisa Martin
The true sea is cold and black, full of animals...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea.
— Scott Lynch
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Sea Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy. — Farid Al-Din Attar
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.
— Dan Millman
Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?' ... 'Make that 12/7 - getting old.
— Aleksandr Voinov
The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L
— Laurie Nadel
They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution.
— Rabindranath Tagore
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
— John Archibald Wheeler
The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky — Edgar Allan Poe
Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.
— Russell Hoban
The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1 One of Coios' daughters, Asteria, took the form of a quail 5 and threw herself into the sea to escape the embraces of Zeus;
— Apollodorus
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.
— Miyamoto Musashi
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
— Herman Melville
We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.
— Adrian McKinty
Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me.
— Julie-Anne
His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.
— George R R Martin
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.
— Charles Spurgeon
At first he seems cold, but if he really fell for someone, he'd love them deeper than the deep blue sea.
— Rika Yokomori
No atheists at sea, Drake. When the waves are the size of mountains even the godless kneel.
— Sarah Winman
The sea is my business.
— Michael Mullen
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.
— John O'Donohue
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
— Charles Dickens
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
— Thabo Mbeki
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
— William Ellery Channing
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
— Chief Seattle
The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.
— Peter Matthiessen
Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
— Richard Francis Burton
Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis
Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.
— Marguerite Duras
I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
— Robert James Waller
She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
— Clive Barker
My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.
— Ruta Sepetys
I love the sea because it is boundless.
— Craig Thompson
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.
— Francis Stokes
The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest.
— Jorge Luis Borges
we are the conquerors of the undiscovered country, an island of life centered in a boundless sea of blood.
— Rick Yancey
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
— Idries Shah
Spread a little sunshine wherever you go.
— Heather Wolf
We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.
— Stephen Jones
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.
— Arthur Ransome
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
— Plato
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
— Edward Lear
Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.
— George R R Martin
I think the concept of the sea is very important.
— Alejandro Amenabar
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
— Haruki Murakami
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
— Dante Alighieri
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
— Eduardo Galeano
Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up.
— Rick Yancey
Life is shortAnd pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
— Aneurin Bevan
As you come out of the sea, naked,and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverberating statue and sword of the sand. — Pablo Neruda
The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?
— Mother Meera
Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
I longed for nothing more than to behold a stormy sea, less as a mighty spectacle than as a momentary revelation of the true life of nature;
— Marcel Proust
He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium.
— Douglas Adams
IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog.
— Anton Chekhov
It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea ...
— Edgar Allan Poe
Seas wept from our deep sorrows.
— John Milton
Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.
— Kahlil Gibran
I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.
— Leon M. Lederman
Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely.
— Richard Happer
I won't go back and live in the sea again.
— Janet Morris
