Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. — Arthur Eddington
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering,… — Pablo Neruda
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. — Werner Herzog
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without… — Frederick Douglass
...in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking... — Bob Dylan
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies… — Leonard Cohen
Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky! — Rainer Maria Rilke
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot. — Aristotle
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of… — John Irving
The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had… — Hunter S. Thompson
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole… — Alan Watts
Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms… — Jodi Picoult
All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows… — Kiran Desai
We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together. — Yoko Ono
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and… — Maya Angelou
and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old… — Van Morrison
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition… — John F. Kennedy
Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call. — Jimmy Buffett
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. — William Goldman
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may… — Arthur Golden
Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must… — Robinson Jeffers
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is… — Victor Hugo
I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful… — Stephen R. Lawhead
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer

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