Green Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should…

— H. P. Lovecraft

You cannot sail for other islands until you are willing to lose sight of your own shore.

— Anonymous

Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a…

— Maurice Strong

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

— Billy Joel

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores,…

— Tove Jansson

“Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.”

— Gretel Ehrlich

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

— Clive Barker

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

— Donald Justice

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Sylvain Neuvel

“But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life,…

— Washington Irving

“There are many so-called glorious and invincible ships now rotting beneath the oceans! Most of them – with high conceit – had thought that…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson