Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing… — Charles Dickens
What is any ocean but a multitude of drops? — David Mitchell
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits… — Margaret Atwood
We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy… — Josip Broz Tito
Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end. — Ken Kesey
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside… — Stephen Dobyns
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where… — Melina Marchetta
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us? — Alice Sebold
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in… — Zora Neale Hurston
This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was… — Richard Brautigan
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. — H. L. Mencken
Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop. — Will Christopher Baer
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know… — Tennessee Williams
You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your… — Ellen Hopkins
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we… — Neil Gaiman
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find… — Vincent Van Gogh
There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but… — Stephen Kendrick
If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf… — Deepak Chopra
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. — Kay Ryan
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed… — Tom Robbins
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like… — Alan Lightman
The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not… — Ana Castillo

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