best quotations about
Sea |
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Quotations
 | You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 11 likes |
 | My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 8 likes |
 | The heart of man is very much like the sea: it has its storms, its tides, and its depths; it has its pearls too. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 8 likes |
 | The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 6 likes |
 | The sea has neither meaning nor pity. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
 | How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes |
 | Mankind owns four things that are no good at the sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright 5 likes |
 | I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 5 likes |
 | Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 4 likes |
 | The sea hates a coward. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 3 likes |
 | The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well. |
 | An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams. |
 | When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. |
 | I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. |
 | The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. |
| The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. |
| There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. |
 | The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. |
 | Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. |
Latin Quotes
 | It is pleasant to watch the wild sea. Suave mare magno. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet (from the land…) 41 likes |
 | Everywhere by sea. Per mare ubique. — motto of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (ship liner) 8 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
 | The secrets of the sea are forgotten at the seashore. |
Funny Quotes
 | The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree — Spike Milligan, 1918-2002, Irish comedian 4 likes |
 | I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered on the beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 3 likes |
| How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The ceaseless twinkling of laughter of the waves of the sea. Ποντίων τε κυμάτων ανήριθμον γέλασμα. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound 8 likes |
