Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface… — Douglas Preston
I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe. — Maya Angelou
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E E Cummings
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for… — Rachel Carson
Come, my love, we have oceans to sail. — Saul Williams
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being… — James Joyce
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? — David Mitchell
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of… — Khalil Gibran
I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels… — Chris Crutcher
tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we… — Linda Hogan
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean. — Yann Martel
The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together... — Nicholas Sparks
You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed… — Daniel Handler
It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.… — Miranda July
You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective,… — Ted Dekker
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. — Anne Lamott
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. — Janet Fitch
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing… — Cormac McCarthy
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can… — W. P. Kinsella
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. — Unknown Author
I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette… — Sloane Crosley
Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys… — Emily Bronte
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE… — Dave Eggers

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