Quotes About Calm Ocean

#1. A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Ram Dass

#4. Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.

Kay Kenyon

#5. Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

Daisaku Ikeda

#6. And I realize that love is as ever-changing as a sky or as an ocean: always there, but not always sunny or clean or calm.

Katy Evans

#7. This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.

Kenneth Eade

#8. Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it away, to return it once again into the oceans.

Peter Matthiessen

#9. Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.

Sri Aurobindo

#11. If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.

Nayyirah Waheed

#12. A lake cannot remain stormy for a long time; an ocean cannot remain calm for a long time; everything and everyone cannot behave different from his own character for a long time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. With a good captain, a rough ocean turns into a calm lake; with a bad captain, a calm lake turns into a rough ocean!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Mother always said he was like a lake, calm on the surface though a powerful current rumbled beneath. Tristan, meanwhile, was the ocean - his feelings frothed and foamed on the surface, crashing like waves into every situation.

Karen Hawkins

#15. Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?

Herman Melville

#16. The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.

J. Kahele

#17. Those men, my peers, they were a sea of beautiful - calm and serene. Reeve was the ocean, dark and commanding and turbulent. They moved in gentle waves. Reeve stood still and set the world crashing around him.

Laurelin Paige

#18. I walked toward the ocean, my brain somehow calm and empty, sick of itself, taking a sick day.

Catherine Lacey

#19. Far, far below the chariot's path, Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous Ocean lay. The mirror of its stillness showed The pale and waning stars, The chariot's fiery track, And the gray light of morn Tinging those fleecy clouds That canopied the dawn.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#20. Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

Vicki Harrison

#21. This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

Charles Gounod

#22. The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.

J. R. Smith

#23. Am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.

Ernest Hemingway,

#24. Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long drinks of calm. The rhythm you find is from down inside, rocking cradle, heartbeat, ocean. Waves on a rockless shore.

Ann Hood

#25. We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Winston Churchill

#26. Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

Frederick Lenz

#27. I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm

Farrah Fawcett

#28. I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Fannie Flagg

#29. The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

Charlotte Bronte

#30. Memory is the same as water. It is a still lake bathed in moonlight, a vast ocean, a violent river ready to carry you away. It can calm you or it can harm you; it is both more powerful and weaker than you'd think. It is a paradox.

T. Greenwood

#31. How may we be saints and live in golden coffins
Who will leave on our stone shelves
pathetic notes for intervention
How may we be calm marble gods at ocean altars
Who will murder us for some high reason

Leonard Cohen

#32. I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to shows. Just being with people I really have fun with. I love the summer. I'm happy in the summer. Love hot, hot weather. I'm happy when I'm making a record, most of the time.

Lana Del Rey

#33. Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive
And that's what makes the calm sea alive

Munia Khan

#34. ...nightly rolling of Mother Ocean ("It's all right, it's all right; everything is calm; we are just eating every thing that moves in here, dry people")..."p.57

Barry Hannah

#35. Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.

Kathleen McDonald

#36. Calm as a slumbering babe, Tremendous Ocean lay. The mirror of its stillness showed The pale and waning stars,

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#37. On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man

Jules Verne

#38. Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#39. I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

Nnedi Okorafor