Dense Quote by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“When working in the archive you will often find yourself thinking of this exploration as a dive, a submersion, perhaps even a drowning ……

— Arlette Farge

I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are…

— Edward Forbes

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers…

— Jonathan Lethem

Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a…

— Stephen Harrigan

“But those sparkling blue shallows- so enticing at first glance- had not yet graded off into depths, so that sometimes I got the disconcerting…

— Donna Tartt

“I think of those photographs taken inside waves, the ones with surfers in slick suits on boards coasting through the tunnel of water, eyes…

— Kathleen Glasgow

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of…

— Lauren DeStefano

“There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and…

— Victor Hugo

“He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his father’s old…

— Jack Croxall

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of…

— Charles Dickens

I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me.

— Allen Tate

''For the depths 'Of the the ocean ''Show the shrieks Of moulded yellow Vast is the eye that can see and the eye That…

— Jeremy Limn