Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course,… — Ming-Dao Deng
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop. — Sue Monk Kidd
You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks… — Khalil Gibran
For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be… — Lauren DeStefano
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We… — Carl Sagan
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. — Annie Dillard
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. — Mikhail Lermontov
There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is… — James Frey
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could… — Jared Diamond
Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you.… — Isaac Watts
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small… — Beyonce Knowles
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of… — Ben Okri
You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up. — Haruki Murakami
The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded… — Carl Sagan
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? — Ernest Hemingway
... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming. — Tracy Kidder
He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're… — Sarah Addison Allen
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man… — Zadie Smith
Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain,… — Karen Marie Moning
It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five guys on it. Headed our way.” He fires another… — Neal Stephenson
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked… — Robin McKinley
Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves.… — Stephen Chbosky
Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room. — Brian Selznick
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay… — Flannery O'Connor

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