The Sea Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Sea

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Land has its pirates, same as the sea, — Scott Lynch

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. — Paul Watson

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

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

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. — Victor Hugo

Humans long to cross the sea, to visit strange lands and see wonders undreamed of. Cats - well, most cats - do not. — Lisa Martin

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea. — Celia Rees

The true sea is cold and black, full of animals... — Jean-Paul Sartre

Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian

Still, every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea. — Neil Gaiman

The Best Men are like the ocean: They lure you in quietly and drown you. And if you are really lucky you stay lost at sea. — Susan Ward

I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon — Nicholas Sparks

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

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea. — Abby Sunderland

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

Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home. — Miriam Toews

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

People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students. — J. Lynn

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop. — Dan Millman

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck — Hunter S. Thompson

It was only the sea sounding weary
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere. — Charles Simic

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

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. — Joseph Conrad

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

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

Baha'ar," he began, his voice soft; grave. "Do not die so far away from the sea. — Alexandra Bracken

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea — Robert James Waller

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton

The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds. — Peter Matthiessen

Sweet kiss is as sweet the moonbeams kiss the sea. — N.G. Dian

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

I remember my youth ... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. — Joseph Conrad

Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb. — Anais Nin

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. — William Ellery Channing

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

No atheists at sea, Drake. When the waves are the size of mountains even the godless kneel. — Sarah Winman

And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness. — Tom Sutcliffe

Two people were swimming in the sea
One was alive and the other dead. See. — Barbara Comyns

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

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

And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea... — Avijeet Das

The sea is my business. — Michael Mullen

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife. — Ivan Panin

At first he seems cold, but if he really fell for someone, he'd love them deeper than the deep blue sea. — Rika Yokomori

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. — Fernando Pessoa

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse. — Gabourey Sidibe

The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow. — Mary Howitt

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before. — Robert Herrick

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. — Tim Winton

Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a — L.M. Montgomery

Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it. — Rosie Thomas

Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil. — Rabindranath Tagore

It's as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty. — Lois Lowry

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

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us. — J.M. Coetzee

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. — Michael Bassey Johnson

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea ... — Edgar Allan Poe

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

I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea. I will always be with you. — Hideo Kojima

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

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

You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea.. — Munia Khan

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

He's over your head! He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms. — Sue Monk Kidd

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

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

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea. — Miyamoto Musashi

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

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

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

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

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon. — Ban Ki-moon

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. — Roddy Doyle

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

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is. — Clive Barker

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. — Anton Chekhov