Quote by Herman Melville

“By love that first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot, yet wert…

— William Shakespeare

“Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again…

— Yukio Mishima

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.”

— Anonymous

“The sensualist, I'll allow ye, begins by pursuing a real pleasure, though a small one. His sin is the less. but the time comes…

— C.S. Lewis

“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

“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious…

— Mary Shelley

“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

“But it could also be an enslavement, a hell , to keep searching for the enchanted , keep plunging down, down to the lonely…

— Marisha Pessl

“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never serve to…

— Petrarch

“We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat…

— Anonymous

“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