Best Sea Quotes

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

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

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

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

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

We are all swimmers in God’s mighty sea.

No poetic phantasybut a biological reality,a fact: I am an entitylike bird, insect, plantor sea-plant cell;I live; I am alive.

A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment – the Zen sense oof the alone.

There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea, there ain’t no island left for islanders like me.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place–though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

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

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

Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the sea-shore in ten years.

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether strategic weapons, tactical weapons, theatre weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

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

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

The dream on the pillow,
That flits with the day,
The leaf of the willow
A breath wears away;
The dust on the blossom,
The spray on the sea;
Ay,–ask thine own bosom–
Are emblems of thee.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.