River Quote by Annie Proulx

“I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“The sea stretched to the edge of the sky, overwhelming, and liberating, and soothing all at once.”

— Christie Anderson

“Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.”

— Rosie Thomas

“The placid sea shines like an aluminium sheet rolled out to the end of the horizon.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

“The ocean lives and wanders free, happily to flow gracefully with the wind.”

— J. Kahele

“To see what's beyond the horizon, we must paddle out, leave our familiar shores, and venture into the unknown.”

— Khoo Swee Chiow

“At long last the horizon appears free to us again, even if it should not be bright; at long last our ships may venture…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The ocean. For miles and miles it stretches, seeming endless. Calm at times, and a ravage monster at other times, swallowing anything it can…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes it gets lonely here, the sea water collapses out beyond the horizon like the dream I thought I understood, only to find waking…

— Michael Burkard

“...he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the…

— Tash Aw

“It is the sea pursues a habit of shores.”

— Carlos A. Angeles

“And when the sea swallowed up the shore and the waves heaved under the ship and the blue horizon encircled us, I immediately felt…

— Tayeb Salih