Land Quote by Joseph Campbell

“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding diversity of…

— Thomas Mann

“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within…

— Michel de Montaigne

“There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, with amazement and horror,…

— Hermann Hesse

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of…

— Fred Hoyle

“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?…

— Herman Melville

He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land;…

— Janet Frame

Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty,…

— J.R. Ward

I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to…

— Christopher Columbus

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For as long as he could remember he had never ceased to wonder why, having arms and legs like everyone else, and a language…

— Boris Pasternak

“An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which he would…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky