Ocean Quotes (516 Quotes)

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  “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

  Mahatma Gandhi

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  “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”

  Christopher Paolini

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  “if
  the ocean
  can calm itself,
  so can you.
  we
  are both
  salt water
  mixed with
  air.”

  Nayyirah Waheed

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• “I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.
  
  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.”

  Anthony Doerr

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  “She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.”

  Janet Fitch

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  “She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”

  Holly Black

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  “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”

  Werner Herzog

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  “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”

  Jennifer Elisabeth

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  “Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”

  Sarah Kay

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• “I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.
  
  [Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”

  John F. Kennedy

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  “There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.”

  Dave Barry

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  “Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
  Smell the sea, and feel the sky,
  Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
  
  - Into the Mystic”

  Van Morrison

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  “There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.”

  Ranata Suzuki

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  “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”

  Jennifer Elisabeth

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  “It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”

  J.R.R. Tolkien

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  “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.”

  Rachel Carson

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  “I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”

  Dejan Stojanovic

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  “It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”

  Jackson Pearce

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  “What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.”

  Kristin Cashore

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• “There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as it enjoyed the crowd, tossed the children about, knocked lilos over, tipped over windsurfers, occasionally gave sailors helping hands; all done with a secret little chuckle”

  Cecelia Ahern

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  “Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”

  Hermann Broch

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  “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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  “Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”

  Ambrose Bierce

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  “All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
  like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
  but a hidden star can still be smiling
  at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling”

  Munia Khan

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  “Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.”

  Santosh Kalwar

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