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Quotes About Sea

I swam, the sea was boundless, I saw no shore. Tanit was merciless, my prayers were answered. O you who drown in love, remember me. —INSCRIPTION ON A CARTHAGINIAN FUNERARY URN
~ Margaret Atwood
The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.
~ John F. Kennedy
The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.
~ Richard Watson Gilder
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
~ Robert T. Bakker
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
~ Tavis Smiley
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
~ Marcus Aurelius
You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
~ Emily Dickinson
The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
~ Lord Byron
Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
~ Freya Stark
Solitude! How do we picture it? A man alone on a raft in the midst of a boundless sea. A figure against a graying sky, with chasms beneath and ice peaks above. Such a derelict between life and death I felt myself to be
~ Anna Katharine Green
No, he said, that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.
~ Anna Sewell
The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.
~ Anne Michaels
Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I felt a kind of impersonal kinship with them and a joy in that kinship. Beauty of earth and sea and air meant more to me. I was in harmony with it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral. 'Praise ye the Lord, all ye fishes of the sea – all ye birds of the air – all ye children of men – Praise ye the Lord!' Yes, I felt closer to my fellow men too, even in my solitude.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
~ Anne Rice
If there is any sea as blue as the Caribbean I have never beheld it, and when it is seen at twilight, it is most spectacular, but then you will hear more of this later, for I have had much time to contemplate the color of this sea. On
~ Anne Rice
IT WAS that sea again, that ocean clear and blue and frothing wild into the flopping prancing ghosts with every wave that hit the beach.
~ Anne Rice
On a night of icy silver radiance, when the very sea and stars seemed on fire with light.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea.
~ Sebastian Junger
S IS THE SOUND of the sea. Her surge and suck, her spray and surf. Sometimes she seethes. She knows the sound of smooth. With her s, the sea marries the shore, and then there is scamper and slush in the sand. With curling s's the sea rises to stroke the side of her superior, the sky, who loves and meets her in the s of spray, spawned in liquid and air.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
And every morning my heart will rise to meet the sea, which is what we know here on earth of infinity and change.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
she was born from the foam that arose when Ouranous's genitals landed in the sea—
~ Serinity Young