Culture Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

— Albert Camus

“Even after all this time I was still overcome with the power that place had over me, evoking emotions that at times were as…

— H.A. Callum

“We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal…

— Paula McLain

“Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. I pick it up, exile that I am, like the…

— Sylvia Plath

“With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt…

— Roz Savage

“I am thinking of a summer on the Baltic when I was a child: how talkative I was to sea and forest; how, filled…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Yesterday the sea was as smooth as a mirror; it is smooth as a mirror today. The island is having an Indian summer. Such…

— Knut Hamsun

“I know the English are terribly sentimental about the sea, but I can live without it.”

— Libba Bray

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite…

— Charles Dickens

“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave…

— Cristina García

“I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then,…

— Anonymous