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Quotes About Sea

Quicksands Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides Yet in the distance the sea has withdrawn Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides And you Like a seaweed the wind gently caresses In the sands of your bed you're moving dreaming Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides Yet in the distance the sea has withdrawn But in your half-opened eyes Two small waves staid Demons and Wonders Winds and Tides Two small waves to drown myself.
~ PREVERT Jacques
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is an ocean who is becoming deeper with incredible speed and amazingly clearer by passing the time. He makes ices familiar with sea by showing "Winter Sleep". Thanks for his existence. "All who love are relatives."
~ Professor Pezhman Mosleh
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
~ Pythagoras
For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached—yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The shore whispers to the sea: "Write to me what your waves struggle to say." The sea writes in foam again and again and wipes off the lines in a boisterous despair.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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
Your voice, my friend, wanders in my heart, like the muffled sound of the sea among these listening pines.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship. In death we reach the shore and go to our different worlds.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
In its swelling pride The bubble doubts the truth of the sea And laughs and bursts into emptiness
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The world is the ever-changing foam that floats on the surface of a sea of silence.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry
~ Rachel Carson
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
~ Rachel Carson
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.
~ Rachel Carson
The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
~ Rachel Carson
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.
~ Rachel Carson
So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.
~ Rachel Cusk
So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.
~ Rachel Cusk
We call on the P.R.C. to remain focused on supporting international efforts to combat the global pandemic and to stop exploiting the distraction or vulnerability of other states to expand its unlawful claims in the South China Sea.
~ Morgan Ortagus
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
~ Jacques Maritain
The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.
~ Craig Brown
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
~ Pamela Stephenson
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
~ H. G. Wells
I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
~ Peter Marshall