Famous Ocean Quotes



When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Samuel Johnson

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Joseph Conrad

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Khalil Gibran

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Virginia Woolf

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent van Gogh

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Martin Luther

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Heinrich Heine

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Victor Hugo

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

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