Embrace Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes when your world crashes down from above and you think there's no way to claw yourself out of the rubble of your life,…

— Olivia Cunning

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“I have two minds about everything. Side A(merican) and side B(osnian). I wish I could find a way to drop off the face of…

— Ismet Prcic

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

— Elizabeth Hay

I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Like Riina, my people have been cast out and ostracized from the place in which we feel we belong. It almost killed us, but…

— Sean Williams

“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. In…

— Aesha K Shah

“As the hours, the days, the weeks, the seasons slip by, you detach yourself from everything. You discover, with something that sometimes almost resembles…

— Georges Perec

“Either woe or well-being, sometimes I have a craving to be engulfed. This morning (in the country), the weather is mild, overcast. I am…

— Robert Barthes

“I understand how easy it would be to lose yourself in the heart of another. It‘s frightening. Exhilarating. An ocean with no lifeguard.”

— Sarah Ockler

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It…

— Nizar Qabbani