Quotes about Sea

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Votes: 6

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Votes: 6

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 everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. Votes: 5

The ocean is a mighty harmonist. Votes: 4

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Votes: 4

The sea lives in every one of us. Votes: 4

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. Votes: 4

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. Votes: 4

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark. Votes: 4

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. Votes: 4

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. Votes: 4

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea Votes: 4

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. Votes: 4

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. Votes: 4

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. Votes: 4

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. Votes: 4

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. Votes: 4

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. Votes: 4

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Votes: 4

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Votes: 4

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Votes: 4

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. Votes: 4

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. Votes: 4

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land. Votes: 3

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea. Votes: 3

My wife calls our waterbed the Dead Sea. Votes: 3

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues Votes: 3

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men. Votes: 3

Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally. Votes: 3

There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court. Votes: 3

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable. Votes: 3

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry. Votes: 3

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence. Votes: 3

The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy. Votes: 3

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. Votes: 3

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea. Votes: 3

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. Votes: 3

You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually. Votes: 3

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath Votes: 3

Helen Hart is so old, she remembers when the Dead Sea was sick. Votes: 3

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick. Votes: 3

After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky. Votes: 3

Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The.... Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years.... Votes: 3

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. Votes: 3

Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea. Votes: 3

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves. Votes: 3

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet. Votes: 3

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. Votes: 3

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. Votes: 3

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water. Votes: 3

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. Votes: 3

I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long. Votes: 3

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World. Votes: 3

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly. Votes: 3

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea Votes: 3

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. Votes: 2

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea. Votes: 2

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Votes: 2

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. Votes: 2

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Votes: 2

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.' Votes: 2

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Votes: 2

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. Votes: 2

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Votes: 2

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. Votes: 2

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Votes: 2

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire. Votes: 2

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. Votes: 2

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. Votes: 2

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. Votes: 2

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Votes: 2

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. Votes: 2

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. Votes: 2

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? Votes: 2

But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget. Votes: 2

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun. Votes: 2

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere. Votes: 2

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown. Votes: 2

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you. Votes: 2

Ocean separates lands, not souls.. Votes: 1

Healthy Earth Equals Healthy Inhabitants Votes: 1

Is Virgin you trying to fathom me Votes: 1

Self is a sea boundless and measureless. Votes: 1

she's gotoceanstucked awayin her hairpoems swimunder her skin. Votes: 1

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. Votes: 1

That night, the sea had invaded the land. Votes: 1

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely. Votes: 1

i was ok in the seaput me back Votes: 1

The sea does not like to be restrained. Votes: 1

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil") Votes: 1

Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed. Votes: 1

But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden Votes: 1

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean. Votes: 1

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear. Votes: 1

In the sea of desperation, there are ships of opportunities Votes: 1

Invite TranquilityThe sea,--Something to look atWhen we are angry. Votes: 1

Like the land joining the sea,Happiness it followed me. Votes: 1

For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer! Votes: 1

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea. Votes: 1

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. Votes: 1

In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat. Votes: 1

Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops. Votes: 1

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave Votes: 1

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water. Votes: 1

Science is a way humans try to tell themselves the truths. Votes: 1

I am drawn to the ocean; I find solace in its mystery. Votes: 1

Sleeping AtlantisSilent cool watersdancing upon her skin ~silent cool waterushering dreams within... Votes: 1

The man's emotions flowed back and forth like waves of the sea. Votes: 1

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world? Votes: 1

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well. Votes: 1

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean. Votes: 1

Yes,it is remarkable how far a person can travel by sea. Votes: 1

In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world Votes: 1

The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep. Votes: 1

And in the ocean I will fly to the bottomless pit of darkness Votes: 1

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. Votes: 1

i miss my brother likethe sea would miss saltif that were taken away. Votes: 1

For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful! Votes: 1

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution. Votes: 1

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. Votes: 1

I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me Votes: 1

Life is a dance between heaven and earth, the ebb and flow of life. Votes: 1

The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire) Votes: 1

Peace is not found in the sea.It is found when I dream of eternity. Votes: 1

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi. Votes: 1

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me Votes: 1

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home. Votes: 1

It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down. Votes: 1

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. Votes: 1

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. Votes: 1

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. Votes: 1

In a sea of strangers,you've longed to know me.Your life spent sailingto my shores. Votes: 1

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive. Votes: 1

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Votes: 1

Tidal waves surge forward,And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER) Votes: 1

Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink. Votes: 1

Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea. Votes: 1

You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea.. Votes: 1

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. Votes: 1

We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring? Votes: 1

The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight. Votes: 1

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. Votes: 1

Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness. Votes: 1

The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. Votes: 1

I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls. Votes: 1

The sea reminds me of my finiteness, limitations, minuteness and powerlessness, because the sea is none of these. Votes: 1

Did you know in the sea you can find a fish called, SWEETLIPS?"Ted and Raymond's Sea Adventure Votes: 1

tread carefullyinto my life, my dear.the currents are strong.you will get lostin this warm oceanof my skin. Votes: 1

The pulse of lapping water; slow waves invisible in the dark; two entangled minds; two lives; two beating hearts. Votes: 1

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul. Votes: 1

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold flood. Votes: 1

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. Votes: 1

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves. Votes: 1

Hence, in a season of calm weatherThough inland far we be,Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Votes: 1

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux. Votes: 1

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Votes: 1

There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky Votes: 1

my dear,we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede. Votes: 1

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. Votes: 1

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. Votes: 1

You have the beach but not the sea? No use! You have the sea but not the beach? No use! Votes: 1

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. Votes: 1

Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have. Votes: 1

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. Votes: 1

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight. Votes: 1

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. Votes: 1

We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers. Votes: 1

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic... Votes: 1

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. Votes: 1

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. Votes: 1

Springtime blooms the starry treeBearing fruit the mariners see.High by night and low by dawnThe silver apple guides us home. Votes: 1

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance. Votes: 1

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two? Votes: 1

From time to time, one must release the grime built up inside them to to free their emotions like the ocean. Votes: 1

All I want in this life are three...a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,a breath of opium, and thee. Votes: 1

I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me Votes: 1

A pebble thrown in a poolmay ripple from end to end,but tossed into the sea,it is swallowed by enormity. Votes: 1

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? Votes: 1

Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right. Votes: 1

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore. Votes: 1

The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ... Votes: 1

And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank Votes: 1

All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee. Votes: 1

What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cure. Votes: 1

Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me. Votes: 1

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it.. Votes: 1

The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I. Votes: 1

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun? Votes: 1

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. Votes: 1

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea. Votes: 1

Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more. Votes: 1

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do. Votes: 1

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child. Votes: 1

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. Votes: 1

The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold... Votes: 1

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul. Votes: 1

...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea... Votes: 1

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea. Votes: 1

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay. Votes: 1

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect. Votes: 1

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. Votes: 1

A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves. Votes: 1

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence Votes: 1

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? Votes: 1

Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself. Votes: 1

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky. Votes: 1

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island. Votes: 1

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)... Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too Votes: 1

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise. Votes: 1

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you. Votes: 1

There had only ever been two roads home: there was the long road and there was the sea road, and tonight I would take the sea road. Votes: 1

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear. Votes: 1

Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite. Votes: 1

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate. Votes: 1

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men. Votes: 1

As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea. Votes: 1

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias. Votes: 1

Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency. Votes: 1

The calming sea reaches out to me. Inviting me to its pure serenity."-Elizabeth's Quotes (inspired by a Pablo Neruda quote "I need the sea because it teaches me.") Votes: 1

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. Votes: 1

I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark. Votes: 1

Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea. Votes: 1

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. Votes: 1

She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she'd rush away again. Votes: 1

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. Votes: 1

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. Votes: 1

Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins. Votes: 1

A WATERY BLISSAs busy as an ice cream freezer,On a Sunday getting hotter,Happy is the honey eater-The busy ocean otter,Floating alongside Teter,On a sea full of water. Votes: 1

Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea. Votes: 1

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets. Votes: 1

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath... Votes: 1

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately. Votes: 1

Leaving your dreams and living someone's dreams is like dipping a pole into a pool to catch a weaver bird alive! It doesn't work that way... Pursue what God sent you for! Votes: 1

You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear! Votes: 1

May your love for me be likethe scent of the evening seadrifting inthrough a quiet windowso i do not have to runor chase or fall... to feel youall i have to dois breathe. Votes: 1

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. Votes: 1

Then very faintly, he heard above his head the low familiar murmur of the sea outside. At once the comfortable noise made him cheerful, and he even remembered what they were supposed to be. Votes: 1

Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot. Votes: 1

My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015]. Votes: 1

It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep. Votes: 1

A great sea fog is not homogenous--its density varies: it is honeycombed with streets, it has its caves of clear air, its cliffs of solid vapour, all shifting and changing place with the subtlety of legerdemain. Votes: 1

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds. Votes: 1

Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall. Votes: 1

Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through our imagination. Votes: 1

She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well. Votes: 1

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof. Votes: 1

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness Votes: 1

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Votes: 1

When I walk down the beach and smell the salt water, hear the waves crashing against the shoreline, and feel the granular sand under my feet, I can't help but realize why I'm here on this green earth Votes: 1

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain... Votes: 1

When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self! Votes: 1

I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world. Votes: 1

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation") Votes: 1

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. Votes: 1

Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal? Votes: 1

Pranzammo a Torre Annunziata con la tavola disposta proprio in riva al mare. Tutti coloro erano felici d'abitare in quei luoghi, alcuni affermavano che senza la vista del mare sarebbe impossibile vivere. A me basta che quell'immagine rimanga nel mio spirito. Votes: 1

Le comari a poco a poco si erano diradate, e come il paese stesso andava addormentandosi, si udiva il mare che russava li vicino, in fondo alla straduccia, e ogni tanto sbuffava, come uno che si volti e rivolti nel letto. Votes: 1

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon. Votes: 1

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea. Votes: 1

Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and blue and hungry. One would think it to be infinite. But we, of course, know better. Votes: 1

... The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning. Votes: 1

You have to understand the sea, he said, to listen to her, to look out for her moods, to get to know her and respect her and love her. Only then can you build boats that feel at home on the sea. Votes: 1

It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea. The fact that you start with a small choice does not mean you will be on that narrow road forever. Votes: 1

It's the colors that will make you stray. They sing to you, the not-blue and the searing light, and no matter how tightly you tie yourself to the inbetween, eventually you will break free.No one swims only in the shallow water. Votes: 1

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. Votes: 1

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history. Votes: 1

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away. Votes: 1

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it. Votes: 1

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude... Votes: 1

We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor. Votes: 1

Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys. Votes: 1

If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature. Votes: 1

My woman has a wandering eye;Yarrow, thyme and thorn.She eyes the ocean and the skyWhile stitching sails, forlorn.I got a kiss, and then a tearAs she bade me go;But on the waves, my heart's in fear:My woman's in the know. Votes: 1

To your simple existence, do not boast;merely to breathe or move or think is not to live.The shore of the sea is but a ghost,compared to the depth its wholeness gives.You exist in the miry foam;make the ocean depths your home. Votes: 1

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. Votes: 1

I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea. Votes: 1

The ocean exerts an inexorable pull over sea people wherever they are-in a bright-lit, inland city or the dead center of a desert-and when they feel the tug there is no choice but somehow to reach it and stand at its immense, earth-dissolving edge, straightaway calmed. Votes: 1

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled and the survivors may toss the non-survivors overboard and arrange a story as to how the missing men were lost at sea. Votes: 1

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones. Votes: 1

Literature is a vast ocean, in which one has to drown themselves to be able to conquer it. Those on shore can see a side of it or have tasted a part of it. And I choose to drown myself in it than just to see it. Votes: 1

She noticed then that Conor was watching her.'Are you going for a swim?' he asked her.'In a while. Why don't you go down and check if it's warm enough?''And if it's not warm enough?''We'll still go in. But at least we'll know. Votes: 1

That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune. Votes: 1

An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have Votes: 1

The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm! Votes: 1

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra. Votes: 1

OvermodulationBy Charlotte M Liebel-FawlsYou're a cavity in my oasis,You're a porthole in my sea,You're a stretch of the imagination every time you look at me.You're an ocean in my wineglass,You're a Steinway on the beach,You're a captivating audience, an exciting Rembrandt,A Masterpiece. Votes: 1

I couldn't help smiling as he grasped my arms and held me in place because his warmth infected me. I hadn't known I was freezing until he held me. I hadn't known until then, after the long hours of separation, that with Cain I could pretend to be human. Votes: 1

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. Votes: 1

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose. Votes: 1

She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and yet... the way she sat, poised, calm, clear like a full moon night, she seemed much happier than me, the witch who contained them all, the jailer with the magic key. Votes: 1

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied. Votes: 1

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. Votes: 1

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea? Votes: 1

In the coastal strains of music full of lovers hopes and dreams upon, wearing only warmth, fresh scent of the ocean and delightfully joyous smile...I look deep in your dark gloomy ochi 'cross the oceans and lands between us, am aware by sweet memories your heart is tortured...and you are for eternity mine... Votes: 1

The most beautiful sea Votes: 0

Earth's sweat, the sea. Votes: 0

Over the wine-dark sea. Votes: 0

The sea hates a coward. Votes: 0

Debt is a bottomless sea. Votes: 0

The sea only drowns its lovers. Votes: 0

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea. Votes: 0

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea. Votes: 0

Venice is all sea and sculpture ... Votes: 0

Praise the sea; on shore remain. Votes: 0

Praise the sea, on shore remain. Votes: 0

The sea is the universal sewer. Votes: 0

I deep sea fish a lot. Votes: 0

the sea is made of blood Votes: 0

1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Votes: 0

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea. Votes: 0

Barrabas came to us by the sea. Votes: 0

Love is the sea where intellect drowns. Votes: 0

The sea complains upon a thousand shores. Votes: 0

Only fools and passengers drink at sea. Votes: 0

The sea has neither meaning nor pity. Votes: 0

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions. Votes: 0

The sea is certainly common to all. Votes: 0

Wine has drowned more than the sea. Votes: 0

The sea is not a bargain basement. Votes: 0

Dive into the sea, or stay away Votes: 0

There are no signposts in the sea. Votes: 0

The sea answers only to the sea. Votes: 0

Life is as inexorable as the sea. Votes: 0

There's never an end for the sea. Votes: 0

The sea hath fish for every man. Votes: 0

Nobody with me at sea but myself. Votes: 0

The bottom of the sea is cruel. Votes: 0

All writing begins in the sea of experience. Votes: 0

Ocean is my potion, I need vitamin sea... Votes: 0

Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle. Votes: 0

Many corpses will be floating in the sea. Votes: 0

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. Votes: 0

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain. Votes: 0

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea. Votes: 0

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic. Votes: 0

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. Votes: 0

Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea Votes: 0

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. Votes: 0

We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea. Votes: 0

The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Votes: 0

The sea finds out everything you did wrong. Votes: 0

A smooth sea never made a skilled marine. Votes: 0

The sea does not like to be restrained." Votes: 0

One's ships come in over a calm sea. Votes: 0

All wars will be settled by sea power. Votes: 0

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing. Votes: 0

The sea is the sweat of the earth. Votes: 0

I need the sea because it teaches me Votes: 0

One if by land, two if by sea. Votes: 0

The Person is a bubble on Time's sea. Votes: 0

There is no new wave, only the sea. Votes: 0

My course is set for an uncharted sea. Votes: 0

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher. Votes: 0

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea. Votes: 0

To take arms against a sea of troubles. Votes: 0

I love the sea because it is boundless. Votes: 0

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. Votes: 0

I sang in my chains like the sea Votes: 0

The sea hath no king but God alone. Votes: 0

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach. Votes: 0

God willing, we will throw them into the sea. Votes: 0

Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun. Votes: 0

The sea Severs not only lands but also selves. Votes: 0

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris. Votes: 0

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea. Votes: 0

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle. Votes: 0

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea... Votes: 0

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky. Votes: 0

He who commands the sea has command of everything. Votes: 0

The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me. Votes: 0

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans Votes: 0

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. Votes: 0

A collision at sea can ruin your entire day. Votes: 0

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion. Votes: 0

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea. Votes: 0

How the waves of the sea kiss the shore! Votes: 0

In a calm sea every man is a pilot. Votes: 0

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, Votes: 0

The sea drives truth into a man like salt. Votes: 0

I have always had the sea as my playground. Votes: 0

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea. Votes: 0

Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities. Votes: 0

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. Votes: 0

The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never. Votes: 0

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe. Votes: 0

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years. Votes: 0

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. Votes: 0

The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved. Votes: 0

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. Votes: 0

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. Votes: 0

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land. Votes: 0

I won't go back and live in the sea again. Votes: 0

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. Votes: 0

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change. Votes: 0

I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea. Votes: 0

Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don't believe her. Votes: 0

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians. Votes: 0

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. Votes: 0

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea. Votes: 0

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea. Votes: 0

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea. Votes: 0

Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody. Votes: 0

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. Votes: 0

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. Votes: 0

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm. Votes: 0

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Votes: 0

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk! Votes: 0

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. Votes: 0

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless. Votes: 0

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest. Votes: 0

Never travel by sea when you can go by land. Votes: 0

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat. Votes: 0

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea. Votes: 0

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Votes: 0

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea. Votes: 0

The depths of the sea are only water after all. Votes: 0

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns. Votes: 0

The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea Votes: 0

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp. Votes: 0

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul. Votes: 0

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls. Votes: 0

The sea is as near as we come to another world. Votes: 0

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. Votes: 0

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything. Votes: 0

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Votes: 0

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure. Votes: 0

Fear not the unknown. For it is a sea of possibilities. Votes: 0

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. Votes: 0

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. Votes: 0

A frog in a well does not know the great sea. Votes: 0

The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery ... Votes: 0

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice. Votes: 0

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule. Votes: 0

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea. Votes: 0

..the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea... Votes: 0

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. Votes: 0

As for myself, the wonderful sea charmed me from the first. Votes: 0

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. Votes: 0

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea. Votes: 0

find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy. Votes: 0

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea. Votes: 0

I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach. Votes: 0

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea. Votes: 0

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. Votes: 0

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear. Votes: 0

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her. Votes: 0

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. Votes: 0

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. Votes: 0

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you. Votes: 0

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks. Votes: 0

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in. Votes: 0

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. Votes: 0

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal? Votes: 0

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. Votes: 0

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes. Votes: 0

The Corrupt should be tied to a rock & thrown into the sea Votes: 0

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. Votes: 0

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. Votes: 0

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea. Votes: 0

The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames. Votes: 0

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die. Votes: 0

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled. Votes: 0

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them Votes: 0

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea. Votes: 0

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon Votes: 0

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea. Votes: 0

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea. Votes: 0

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. Votes: 0

He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea. Votes: 0

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea. Votes: 0

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. Votes: 0

Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide! Votes: 0

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead... Votes: 0

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore. Votes: 0

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white. Votes: 0

At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever. Votes: 0

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice. Votes: 0

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown. Votes: 0

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. Votes: 0

We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind. Votes: 0

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea. Votes: 0

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. Votes: 0

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in. Votes: 0

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea. Votes: 0

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman. Votes: 0

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea. Votes: 0

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. Votes: 0

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea. Votes: 0

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea. Votes: 0

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea. Votes: 0

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa. Votes: 0

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. Votes: 0

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea. Votes: 0

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea. Votes: 0

Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream Votes: 0

'O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.' Votes: 0

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure. Votes: 0

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women. Votes: 0