Quotes About Ocean

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

I descended the poop

There is something peculiar in a small boat upon the wide seas. Over the lives born from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

And she crawled on, do or die, in the serene weather. The sky was a miracle of purity, a miracle of azure. The sea was polished, was blue was pellucid, was sparkling like a precious stone, extending on all sides , all round to the horizon—as if the whole terrestrial globe had been one jewel, one colossal sapphire, a single gem fashioned into a planet.

Captain MacWhirr had sailed over the surface of the oceans as some men go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate—or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea.

La voz de las olas de vez en cuando era un verdadero placer, como la conversación de un hermano. Era algo natural, que tenía su razón, que tenía su significado.

My act of rebellion would be absorbed like rain on an ocean and leave no trace. I would not cause a ripple.

staring bleakly at the endless tame, quiet waves breaking like pet puppy dogs against the shore, scampering lightly up the sand a foot or two and then trotting away.

To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

Are you taking us to the beach? - Dan Cahill

I'm sure the salt water is good for it

The Original Intelligent Substance is in a human being, moving toward health — and it is pressing upon him from every side. The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith. If he appropriates it and applies it to himself it is all his, and if he unifies himself with it by unquestioning faith, he cannot fail to attain health, for the power of this Substance is all the power there is.

She sang beyond the genius of the sea.The water never formed to mind or voice,Like a body wholly body, flutteringIts empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motionMade constant cry, caused constantly a cry,That was not ours although we understood,Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.

And still the grossest iridescence of oceanHowls hoo and rises and howls hoo and falls.

There will never be an end To this droning of the surf.

The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

People don't believe it, but solo sailing actually is quite restful.

The truths of the sea, like the truths of the soul, cannot be reduced to numbers.

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

Nim loved the ocean because it was always there, wherever she looked and as far as she could see, but it was too huge and powerful to understand and too dangerous to

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.

Marine biology is not a science for the faint of heart." - KRAKEN The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid (2011)

Some people own the beach and others don't know the sea."