Oceans And Seas Quotes by Elizabeth I, William Hazlitt, Blaise Pascal, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Van Morrison, Loren Eiseley and many others.
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
The sea lives in every one of us.
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that 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 alone when I’m out there.
