Seas Quotes
361 Seas quotes by 282 unique authors
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In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green…
— Sylvia Plath
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She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the…
— Walter Pater
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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,…
— Joseph Conrad
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It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked…
— Daniel Handler
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
— E E Cummings
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green…
— William Shakespeare
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When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have…
— Henry Rollins
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I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to…
— Rosie Thomas
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I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing!…
— David Mitchell
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There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas…
— Richard Baxter
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
— William Wordsworth
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For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose:…
— Frank Herbert
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The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no…
— Albert Camus
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we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that…
— Paulo Coelho
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The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.
— Homer
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We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)
— Scott Spencer
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He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare…
— Josh Lanyon
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You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of…
— Neil Gaiman
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Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives…
— Lynn Austin
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He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to…
— T.H. White
Who Wrote These Seas Quotes
282 authors contributed a total of 361 Seas Quotes, led by these top contributors: