Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all… — Haruki Murakami
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,… — Lawrence Durrell
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter… — Christopher Paolini
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember… — Herman Melville
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There… — Anne Rice
How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there? — Steven Wright
The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet… — Ann Brashares
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls… — Jonathan Edwards
Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. — Harper Lee
What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially… — Kristin Cashore
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We… — John Cheever
They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish… — Karl Pilkington
Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one… — Marianne Williamson
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful. — Gustave Flaubert
Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,… — P.G. Wodehouse
You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so… — Alfred de Musset
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight… — Grant Morrison
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or… — Neil Gaiman
I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened… — Arina Tanemura
she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I… — Charles Bukowski
We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in… — Shirley Jackson
An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams. — John Steinbeck

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