Quotes About Sea

There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither...

The sea hath no King but God alone.

The sea has no mood except that of the sky and of its winds.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Wine has drowned more men than the sea.

With fronds like these, who needs anemones?

The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

in the bowl distill a word most bitter, marah , a word bitterer still, mar , sea, brine, breaker, seducer . . . till marah-mar are melted, fuse and join and change and alter, mer, mere, mère, mater, Maia, Mary, Star of the Sea, Mother.

The ice pack as a whole forms a mobile belt on whose polar side the sea is more or less ice free," he argued.

Continue ye merry notes! The evening is mild, the sea is calm and bright as any mirror.

Nothing gave her greater pleasure than to hear about the world of human beings up above; she made her old grandmother tell her all that she knew about ships and towns, people and animals. But above all it seemed strangely beautiful to her that up on the earth the flowers were scented, for they were not so at the bottom of the sea.

We [sea folk] can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

26There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.

And biased by full sails, meridians reelThy purpose—still one shore beyond desire!The sea's green crying towers a-sway, Beyond.

High in the azure steepsMonody shall not wake the mariner.This fabulous shadow only the sea keeps.

May the heart of Gods sea of souls unity bless you with love for all eternity.

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

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.