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Quotes About Sea

The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea and through strange lands where no humans lived.
~ Knut Hamsun
Gladness is intoxicating. I fire my gun and an unforgettable echo answers from crag to crag, floats out over the sea and rings in some sleepless helmsman's ears. What am I glad about? A thought that comes to me, a memory, a sound in the forest, a human being. I think of her—I close my eyes and stand still on the road and think of her, counting the minutes.
~ Knut Hamsun
The sea maidens were as fresh and lovely as ever, while each and all proved sweet tempered and merry, even at the breakfast table—and that is where people are cross, if they ever are.
~ L. Frank Baum
Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........
~ Steve Merrick
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
~ Herman Melville
The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My love turns me like a salt sea, it seems, Into sweet drops of autumn's first rain. I'm brought to you slowly as I fall. Take me in. For us there's no angel who will come to redeem. For we are together. Each of us alone.
~ Yehuda Amichai
The sun thought that Jerusalem was a sea and set in her: a terrible mistake.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.
~ Yukio Mishima
Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.
~ Yukio Mishima
He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.
~ Yukio Mishima
Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the eyes of all who are born at the seaside and forced to depart from it.
~ Yukio Mishima
Il sole del pomeriggio batteva senza sosta la superficie del mare, e tutta la baia er a un'unica, stupenda distesa di fulgore. All'orizzonte campeggiavano alcune nuvole estive, ferme nel silenzio, immergendo parzialmente in acqua le forme sontuose, funeree, profetiche. I muscoli delle nuvole erano pallidi come alabastro.
~ Yukio Mishima
El hecho de que Shinji no experimentara ningún tipo de carencias musicales en en su vida cotidiana se debía sin duda a que el mar satisfacía su necesidad.
~ Yukio Mishima
Great cloud masses boiled up, immense in their quiet majesty. They seemed to drink up all the noise below, even the sound of the sea. It was the height of summer and there was anger in the rays of the sun.
~ Yukio Mishima
Finally, rocking the whole harbour and carrying to every city windows; besetting kitchens with dinner on the stove, and shoddy hotel bedrooms where sheets are never changed, and desks waiting for children to come home, and schools and tennis courts and graveyards; plunging everything into a moment of grief and ruthlessly tearing even the hearts of the uninvolved, the Rakuyo's horn screamed out one last enormous farewell. Trailing white smoke, she sailed straight out to sea.
~ Yukio Mishima
To follow its shadow, to remain forever within it, she herself would have to become the sea. And at that moment, in a single great surge, she did.
~ Yukio Mishima
he was a ship loaded down with a full cargo of emotion, riding low in the dark winter sea of death. Isao
~ Yukio Mishima
Let's not look directly at what is meant to be loved in secret. Let's, for example, imagine the sea is always, constantly, and forever spilling toward us, that our screaming building is something worth escaping. — Zachary Schomburg, from "Building of Unseen Cats," Fjords Vol. 1 . (Black Ocean; 1st edition March 6, 2012)
~ Zachary Schomburg
In Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.
~ zafon carlos ruiz iii
I was looking out at cliffs and the sea, all sluiced in delicate pinks and yellows and greens and blues, as if the sun were imparting to the sleeping rock and water dreams of their youth, dreams of the rock's birth in the earth's molten core, the water's ecstatic purity before it was sullied by life—as if the play of soft colors were the sun's lullaby to the cliffs and the sea, of endurance and transformation.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
~ Deborah Levy
Well . . . our God is a God of miracles. He set the stars in the sky, created every living being, and parted the sea.
~ Denise Hunter
and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.
~ Denise Levertov