Alas Quote by Matthew Arnold

Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's…

— Edwin Arnold

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that,…

— Josiah Royce

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that…

— Woodrow Wilson

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives…

— Henry David Thoreau

I picked up a bottle half buried in the wet sand, covered with barnacles, but stoppled tight, and half full ofred ale, which still…

— Henry David Thoreau

And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He brings you safe to…

— Quran

“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him…

— Lord Dunsany

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

— William Butler Yeats

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor…

— Henry David Thoreau

The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some…

— Anonymous

The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great,…

— Anonymous

The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying…

— Robert E. Howard