Ocean Quotes
2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
— Pat Conroy
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I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As…
— Dave Pelzer
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After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,…
— Charles Bukowski
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He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be…
— Jack Canfield
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There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that…
— Dave Barry
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.
— Jason Mraz
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the…
— Alan Watts
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This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the…
— Abraham Verghese
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We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we…
— Charlie Kaufman
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We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis…
— Sarah Dessen
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She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
— Holly Black
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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
— Anne Carson
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...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your…
— Deb Caletti
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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie.…
— Lois Lowry
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I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere…
— Lisa Kleypas
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If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my…
— Jay Asher
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I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.
— Craig Ferguson
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The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch…
— Elizabeth I
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It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Ocean Quotes
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