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Quotes About Sea

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.
~ Iris Murdoch
It is strange to think that when I went to the sea I imagined that I was giving up the world. But one surrenders power in one form, and grasps it in another.
~ Iris Murdoch
He dreamt...he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was.
~ Iris Murdoch
Lovely country, isn't it. Do you know this part of the world? No. He said, suddenly stretching out his hands, Oh, the sea, the sea—it's so wonderful.
~ Iris Murdoch
Never swim in a rough sea, dear boy, this sea's a killer. But the past refused to come back, as it did in dreams, to be remade. Titus walked in my dreams in the brightness of his youth, which was now made eternal. Or else I dreamed that he was dead and felt joy on waking.
~ Iris Murdoch
The sea, the sea, yes,' James went on. 'Did you know that Plato was descended from Poseidon on his father's side? Do you have porpoises, seals?' 'There are seals, I'm told. I haven't seen any.
~ Iris Murdoch
Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgments on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning
~ Iris Murdoch
It is evening. The sea is golden, speckled with white points of light, lapping with a sort of mechanical self-satisfaction under a pale green sky. How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's all okay, it's all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.
~ Irvine Welsh
This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam... that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body.
~ Irvine Welsh
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
~ Isaac Asimov
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
~ Isabel Allende
two thousand or more Spaniards sailing toward that long, narrow South American country that clung to the mountains so as not to topple into the sea.
~ Isabel Allende
There was no reason to fear the sea, only the living, because, despite their bad reputation, there was no evidence that the dead had ever attacked anyone; if anything, they were naturally timid
~ Isabel Allende
Mumbai is on a seismically sensitive zone; it is also dangerously exposed to the sea.
~ Sucheta Dalal
Debt is a bottomless sea.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.
~ John Foster
The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.
~ William Shakespeare
Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
~ Pericles
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.
~ William Cowper
Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an hour. It's called the asthenosphere - a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth's cool epidermis - the so-called tectonic plates.
~ Seth Shostak
It's never going to be hipster because you've got that smell that the sea gives out twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is art-led regeneration.
~ Pete Doherty