Active Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Said the Hoopoe: 'O ignorant of the sea, don't you know that it is full of crocodiles and other dangerous creatures? Sometimes its water…

— Farid ud-Din Attar

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

— Ernest Hemingway

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which…

— Victor Hugo

“The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices the soul, because, like the soul,…

— Marcel Proust

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“What exists beneath the sea? I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among…

— Kelly Easton

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite...

— Jules Verne

“The sea is not a whore, for she is free and joyous, but she is a woman. She obeys the moon, as women do,…

— Susan Palwick

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which…

— Adrienne Rich

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

— James Joyce

“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver…

— Anthony Doerr