Ancient Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. Blue, green, grey, white,…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is…

— Ron Rash

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.

— Anonymous

It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be…

— Charles Lyell

Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory.

— Anonymous

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

— John Guare

“So I dream nightly of an embarcation, captains, captains, iron passageways, cabin lights, Brooklyn across the waters, the great dull boat, visitors, farewells, the…

— Allen Ginsberg

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and…

— Patti Smith

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our…

— Henry David Thoreau

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.

— Carol Birch