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Quotes About Ocean

been tumbled smooth by waves
~ Claire Cook
She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.
~ Clive Barker
Bimini Road in the waters off the Bahamas.
~ Clive Cussler
Narwhal with a soft whine of the impellers. All of their lights were focused on the seafloor.
~ Clive Cussler
A controlled outward explosion," Kurt said. "Basically, a giant sucking sound that ends with us flying out through the shattered window and free-falling toward the ocean for approximately ten minutes. Which will seem rather pleasant when compared to the sudden stop at the bottom.
~ Clive Cussler
You can love the ocean, and many do, but don't expect it to love you back. It's too forever
~ Cody McFadyen
Con el tiempo les fueron quitando a palos las palabras del otro lado del océano. Por simplificar, por borrarles la identidad, por sofocar revueltas.
~ Colson Whitehead
In America the quirk was that people were things. Best to cut your losses on an old man who won't survive a trip across the ocean.
~ Colson Whitehead
Dånet och sorlet från havsstranden fyller mina örons snäckor. Men de förmår inte driva undan mina förföljare: Mina tankars frågor ställes och upprepas. Men det finns inga svar åt dem --- de slår sönder sig bara, emot en granithård mur. De kastas tillbaka, sköljs bort. Men de kommer igen, alltid igen, som vågorna utifrån vattenvidden.
~ Vilhelm Moberg
Nascetur pulchra Troianus origine Caesar, imperium oceano, famam qui terminet astris,--- Iulius, a magno demissum nomen Iulo.
~ Virgil
Vertitur interea caelum et ruit oceano nox, inuoluens umbra magna terramque polumque.
~ Virgil
Vertitur interea caelum et ruit oceano nox, involvens umbra magna terramque polumque Myrmidonumque dolos;
~ Virgil
Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta--- horresco referens---immensis orbibus angues incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt; pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque sanguineae superant undas; pars cetera pontum pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
~ Virgil
I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
~ Virginia Woolf
The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.
~ Virginia Woolf
Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.
~ Virginia Woolf
They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.
~ Virginia Woolf
so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again...
~ Virginia Woolf
The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.
~ Virginia Woolf
there was only the sound of the sea.
~ Virginia Woolf
The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.
~ Virginia Woolf
He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea.
~ Virginia Woolf
the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason...
~ Virginia Woolf
Words belong to each other, although, of course, only a great writer knows that the word incarnadine belongs to multitudinous seas.
~ Virginia Woolf