Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world. — Mahatma Gandhi
I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can… — Kaye Gibbons
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an… — Joseph Conrad
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive,… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are… — Khalil Gibran
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was… — Aimee Friedman
In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they… — Jorge Luis Borges
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.… — Pema Chodron
Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet… — Megan Hart
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys,… — Unknown Author
When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all… — Francesca Lia Block
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out… — Unknown Author
Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries? — Amelia Earhart
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
If rain drops were kisses, I'd send you showers. If hugs were seas, I'd send you oceans. And if love was a person I'd send… — Emily Bronte
That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that… — Stephen Kendrick
I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I… — David Ebershoff
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert
To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle — Patrick Ness
I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean. — Adam Zagajewski
The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit… — Ansel Adams
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the… — Truman Capote
There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free… — Deborah Smith

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