Freedom Quote by Herman Melville

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds…

— Herman Melville

“all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea”

— Herman Melville

“Glimpses do you seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul…

— Herman Melville

“Steep are the seas and savaging and cold In broken waters terrible to try; And vast against the winter night the wold, And harbourless…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the…

— Yukio Mishima

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude…

— Gustave Flaubert

“To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those…

— Thomas Ligotti

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— Charlotte Brontë

“With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,   Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed;   Some lying fast at anchor in the…

— William Wordsworth

“Amongst those who go to sea there are the navigators who discover new worlds, adding continents to the earth and stars to the heavens:…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive,…

— John Fowles