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Quotes About Ocean

the sea was hidden by the house's curve, but we could both hear it, the distant hiss of waves against sand.
~ Madeline Miller
Her limbs lift into the grey waves like the steady beats of wings.
~ Madeline Miller
The sailors dropped to their knees. I would not be able to bear it, I thought. I would seize him, hold him to me. But I only embraced him a final time, pressing hard as if to set him into my skin. Then I watched him take his place among them, stand upon the prow, outlined against the sky. The light darted silver from the waves. I lifted my hand in blessing and gave my son to the world.
~ Madeline Miller
And their masts stood as tall as the trees they had been
~ Madeline Miller
My eyes were heavy in my head, and my arm ached from the morning'e exertion. I sat beneath the scrubby shade of an olive tree to stare out over the ocean's waves. No one spoke to me. I was easy to ignore. It was not so very different from home, really.
~ Madeline Miller
Good." Carelessly, as if to herself, she added, "You will be dead soon enough." She turned and dove into the sea, leaving no ripples behind her.
~ Madeline Miller
His voice was resonant, warm, with a pull to it that reminded me of ocean tides.
~ Madeline Miller
Within him, there was an ocean's worth of grief; which could only be stopped for a moment, never emptied.
~ Unknown
The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love's primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it.
~ Maggie Nelson
The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love's primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless.
~ Maggie Nelson
The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love's primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself places in their midst.
~ Maggie Nelson
The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love's primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst.
~ Maggie Nelson
Karen Blixen wrote, in her Seven Gothic Tales, 'I know a cure for everything: salt water . . . in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Estos baños son un gran placer para mí. Karen Blixen dijo en sus Seven Gothic Tales: «Conozco un remedio para todos los males: agua salada […] en cualquiera de sus formas. Sudor, lágrimas o agua de mar».
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Mind is a wave of the ocean of Being.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
working the salt-roughened lines. They had
~ Maile Meloy
La mer porte le regard, la terre nos pieds.
~ Marc Levy
Para estar al borde del mar no hay más que cerrar los ojos.
~ Marcel Proust
Seus longos olhos azuis - mais alongados - não tinham guardado a mesma forma; continuavam sim da mesma cor, mas pareciam ter passado ao estado líquido. A tal ponto que, quando os fechava, era como quando com cortinas se impede de ver o mar.
~ Marcel Proust
She tried to make her eyes seem tender; she did not know why, for no reason, for pleasure, the pleasure of charity, of a little vanity, and also gratuity, the pleasure of carving your name into a tree trunk for a passerby whom you will never see, the pleasure of throwing a bottle into the ocean.
~ Marcel Proust
Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam, the pilot of some small night-founded skiff, deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, with fixed anchor in his scaly rind, moors by his side under the lee, while night invests the sea, and wished morn delays.
~ John Milton
180] Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapped in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, [185] Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end; this would be worse.
~ John Milton
Dagon his name, sea-monster, upward man And downward fish
~ John Milton