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Sea Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
- One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
- For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made…
- The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
- Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from…
- Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as…
- A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever…
- The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the…
- A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
- For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been…
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
- Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre,…
- ...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...
- There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
More Sea Quotes
- On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a… — John James Audubon
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer,… — Henry Adams
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore