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Quotes About Sea

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
~ Terence McKenna
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It's a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
~ Terry Pratchett
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
~ Terry Pratchett
down below the mines and sea ooze and fake fossil bones put there by a Creator with nothing better to do than upset archeologists and give them silly ideas.
~ Terry Pratchett
Fair?" said the Sea Queen. She moved forward. Om felt her all around him. "There's no such thing," she said. "Life's like a beach. And then you die.
~ Terry Pratchett
Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death.
~ Terry Pratchett
It's all bloody lies about the sea. It's just all yuk with lobsters in it.
~ Terry Pratchett
For all of us, Acadia is another breathing space. Perhaps that is what parks are - breathing spaces for a society that increasingly holds its breath. Here on the edge of the continent in this marriage between wind and sea, the weaving of currents offers a tapestry of belief.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
~ Lord Mountbatten
Louis-Cesare's anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique coins. I sat frozen, awash in a sea of power. I was beginning to understand why Mircea had wanted him along, only Daddy had failed to mention anything about the hair-trigger temper. I guess he assumed the red hair would clue me in.
~ Karen Chance
I send my fears to the sea. They'll no longer trouble me. No more worry, no more dread.
~ Karen Cushman
Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.
~ Karen Hawkins
The skin on his palm was thicker than the hide on a man's heel, but across it and between the fingers were deep raw cracks from the cold and the salt which would never heal, not until he settled ashore. And that was not likely to be anytime soon, for when a man's got salt water in his blood and a sea wind in his lungs, neither wife nor land can keep him from the waves.
~ Karen Maitland
Witches have the power to raise storms by whistling or shaking out their hair. Others do it by christening a dead cat, then tying parts of a human corpse to it before flinging it into the sea. Lincoln
~ Karen Maitland
I learned young that moments of comedy during the horror show can be a life raft, enough to keep you bobbing in a violent, killing sea.
~ Karen Marie Moning
They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.
~ Karl Pilkington
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
~ Kate Chopin
Odysseus was a great hero in the Trojan War. When he left Troy to sail home to Ithaca, he was lost at sea for ten years. He begged the brave and mighty Zeus for help, and kindly Zeus sent winds to take him home.
~ Kate McMullan
I caught a big whiff of Sea Breeze cologne as my brother Poseidon came striding toward me, his mane of blue hair streaming out behind him.
~ Kate McMullan
Nevyn woke to a world turned gray by fog. It lay so thick on island and sea that land and water seemed the same element. In the windless damp, every word spoken hung in the air like a tuft of sheep's wool caught on a bramble.
~ Katharine Kerr
My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.
~ Katherine Hall Page
Slowly Hades retreats This time The transparent sea touches the shore The edge of fine sand shifts, softly, exactly
~ Göran Sonnevi