Air Quote by Joseph Conrad

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to…

— Rich Mullins

“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country…

— Joseph Conrad

Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the…

— Helen Keller

In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order.... In the immutability of their…

— Joseph Conrad

They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing…

— Gertrude Bacon

“The shore whispers to the sea: “Write to me what your waves struggle to say.” The sea writes in foam again and again and…

— Rabindranath Tagore

It is generally supposed that they who have long been conversant with the ocean can foretell, by certain indications, such as its roar and…

— Anonymous

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

— Joë Bousquet

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away…

— William Butler Yeats

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding…

— Yukio Mishima