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Quotes About Ocean

We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
~ Eileen Wilks
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
~ Eknath Easwaran
You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected with the flavor of life itself...
~ Eleanor Clark
The waves rolled in like blue metal tubes carrying an egg white of foam on their peaks, then broke in a thousand glittering splinters and came up to the street with an oh of wonder and fear from those watching.
~ Elena Ferrante
Why do you look like that? You should be happy. A lot of things can happen in an airplane, at night, thirty thousand feet above the ocean.
~ Elif Batuman
A whole ocean of rain seemed to be pouring out of the sky. We sat under an awning near a hotel parking lot and ate yellow plums. Eventually Rózsa ate one of the cookies I had bought, and I felt happy and proud, like I had successfully fed a shy and proud animal. Within minutes the sun was blazing as if it didn't remember a thing.
~ Elif Batuman
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
~ Anton Chekhov
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They're too weak to make it from shore to shore. I saw the words underwater, millions of them; they're lying there on the bottom of the sea, a whole load of wrecked sentences, sentences that never reached their destination, questions from one side and answers from the other…
~ Antonia Michaelis
El llanto quizá sea el camino más cortopara el mar
~ Antonio Gala
Tardes en que está cerca el mar y se oye la voz que dice: "ven".
~ Antonio Gala
your footsteps are the road, wanderer, and nothing else there is no road, it is born of walking and looking back, you gaze upon the path to which you never shall return there is no road, wanderer only wakes upon the sea
~ Antonio Machado
La humanidad posee cuatro cosas que no son útiles en el mar: Timones, anclas, remos y el temor de hundirse.
~ Antonio Machado
And when the day arrives for the final voyage and the ship of no return is set to sail, you'll find me aboard, traveling light, almost naked, like the children of the sea.
~ Antonio Machado
Humanity is only like the fresh water, not like an ocean that has saline water. But, remember that the world statistics show that only 0.3 % of 2.5% as all the fresh water on Earth is available as surface water.
~ Anuj Somany
The quantity of positivity on earth is just like the minuscule amount of fresh, accessible potable water and the extent of negativity is like the majority volume of ocean water full of salinity.
~ Anuj Somany
before dawn of another day I would be swimming for my life in mid-ocean, under water and on the surface, in a temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit!
~ Archibald Gracie
When we look at waves in the ocean, we see each one as independent in its formation and at the same time inseparable from the whole. There is no so such thing as a wave without the ocean. In the same way we are inseparable from each other and are connected to the whole body of life.
~ Arinna Weisman
Halcyon days.
~ Aristophanes
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
~ Arthur C. Clarke