Top 100 Quotes About The Ocean

#1. Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.

Sarah Glenn Marsh

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#2. Trying to find solace in the remaining
parks and lakes.
Now we're forced to get away,
take trips to the real
places.
The forest.
The ocean.

Nathan Moore

Quotes About The Ocean #309
#3. My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'

John C. McGinley

Quotes About The Ocean #1842
#4. What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?

Craig Thompson

Quotes About The Ocean #2026
#5. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

Rumi

Quotes About The Ocean #3139
#6. The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.

Thor Heyerdahl

Quotes About The Ocean #3610
#7. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.

P.J. Parker

Quotes About The Ocean #6213
#8. Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

Sylvia Earle

Quotes About The Ocean #6661
#9. The ocean waves never question the shore,
the sky never questions the rain clouds

Brian Hanson Appleton

Quotes About The Ocean #7555
#10. Look within.
Within you is the hidden God.
Within you is the immortal soul.
Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure.
Within you is the ocean of bliss.
Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.

Sivananda

Quotes About The Ocean #7679
#11. I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

Jack Johnson

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#12. The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Rumi

Quotes About The Ocean #8846
#13. We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

William Faulkner

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#14. Mother is the rock, I am the ocean. I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. It takes a lot of energy. I don't think I have it in me.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Quotes About The Ocean #10736
#15. My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

Alexander Agassiz

Quotes About The Ocean #10835
#16. The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

Wasif Ali Wasif

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#17. Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

Myron Uhlberg

Quotes About The Ocean #11628
#18. I've always believed the ocean held more for me than the island.

Kelly Said

Quotes About The Ocean #12926
#19. I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

John Malkovich

Quotes About The Ocean #13888
#20. Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.

Christopher Pike

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#21. Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

Alexander Hamilton

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#22. For some reason surfing ... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.

John Slattery

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#23. In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and 10 percent of the value of U.S. imports.

Marc Levinson

Quotes About The Ocean #16897
#24. Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche

Quotes About The Ocean #17529
#25. Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

Quotes About The Ocean #17555
#26. Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.

Mindy Starns Clark

Quotes About The Ocean #17869
#27. I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

Maggie Stiefvater

Quotes About The Ocean #18107
#28. You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

Mitch Albom

Quotes About The Ocean #18129
#29. The Ocean is big,
I am small, yes.
But I am nothing,
And I realize that it is worth the struggle
To Live
And it means everything to be loved

Amy Grant

Quotes About The Ocean #18641
#30. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Deborah Levy

Quotes About The Ocean #19413
#31. My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

Carolyn Murphy

Quotes About The Ocean #19479
#32. I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Frank Ocean

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#33. 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,

Quotes About The Ocean #19703
#34. Days turn to night. The ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have.

Jill Shalvis

Quotes About The Ocean #19738
#35. My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.

Katherine Hall Page

Quotes About The Ocean #20266
#36. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Quotes About The Ocean #22800
#37. Forever, if she promises to never part the ocean where the river sings.

Delano Johnson

Quotes About The Ocean #26031
#38. Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...

Mykyta Isagulov

Quotes About The Ocean #26098
#39. I go to the ocean to say goodbye.

Charlotte Eriksson

Quotes About The Ocean #26175
#40. I can not go through the ocean. i can not drive the streets at night. i can not wake up in the morning without you on my mind. and so your gone and im haunted i bet you are just fine. did i make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life.

A Fine Frenzy

Quotes About The Ocean #26662
#41. There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There are things we want that exist at the edge of the forest, at the rim of the ocean, just over the hill, just out of sight.

Charles Yu

Quotes About The Ocean #27260
#42. The moon makes love
to the ocean
and
in this holy conception it gives birth
to a little tide.

A.P. Sweet

Quotes About The Ocean #27273
#43. Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Inga Muscio

Quotes About The Ocean #27525
#44. Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

Deb Caletti

Quotes About The Ocean #28039
#45. No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness. With no selfish or partial joy but for the sake of the law they rejoiced, for creation engulfed in the ocean of pain was now to obtain release.

Gautama Buddha

Quotes About The Ocean #28320
#46. To split the very sea into ours and theirs. Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets

Eileen Granfors

Quotes About The Ocean #29214
#47. The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.

Hugh Howey

Quotes About The Ocean #29365
#48. I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

Rickson Gracie

Quotes About The Ocean #29617
#49. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Beyonce Knowles

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#50. The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

Tim Winton

Quotes About The Ocean #30308
#51. the sky's sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words 'I am' dissolved into blue peace. He said it. 'The ocean.' You

David Mitchell

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#52. To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

Munia Khan

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#53. 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.

Tanya Moir

Quotes About The Ocean #33295
#54. My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!

Robert Ballard

Quotes About The Ocean #34020
#55. The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.

Enric Sala

Quotes About The Ocean #39180
#56. Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

Harper Lee

Quotes About The Ocean #39484
#57. It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes About The Ocean #39590
#58. He knows not where he's going,
For the ocean will decide,
Its not the destination,
It's the glory of the ride

Edward Monkton

Quotes About The Ocean #40521
#59. The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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#60. Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Isaac Marion

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#61. No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Charles Kettering

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#62. My mother drove me to Boston and bought me a beautiful blue dress that touched the floor, spilling out in waves; I wore the ocean in the shape of a girl.

Kelle Groom

Quotes About The Ocean #43941
#63. Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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#64. The quite person's mind is a raging ocean!

Sanjai Velayudhan

Quotes About The Ocean #45185
#65. Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Rumi

Quotes About The Ocean #45948
#66. Art,Poetry and Dreams are Ingredients of a gentle youth,it has a flow like the ebbing ocean waves,to and fro.

Nithin Purple

Quotes About The Ocean #46220
#67. Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

Sam Keen

Quotes About The Ocean #46889
#68. If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.

Rumi

Quotes About The Ocean #46968
#69. I've seen the ocean lapping lovingly at his muscles. And now I look at the sun stroking his skin like a possessive lover.
My best friend doesn't live life, he devours it.

Petra F. Bagnardi

Quotes About The Ocean #47159
#70. A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived

Rumi

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#71. Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Quotes About The Ocean #48286
#72. Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

Gretel Ehrlich

Quotes About The Ocean #50764
#73. Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart.

Karen Marie Moning

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#74. I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

Sylvia Earle

Quotes About The Ocean #52173
#75. Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

Fabien Cousteau

Quotes About The Ocean #53160
#76. The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination.

Jon Krakauer

Quotes About The Ocean #53648
#77. The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

Zoe Helene

Quotes About The Ocean #54022
#78. Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

Heinrich Zimmer

Quotes About The Ocean #54652
#79. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

James Cameron

Quotes About The Ocean #54943
#80. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

Ocean Vuong

Quotes About The Ocean #55079
#81. Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

William Wordsworth

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#82. You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Quotes About The Ocean #55736
#83. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

Quotes About The Ocean #56149
#84. The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.

Mark Rutte

Quotes About The Ocean #56647
#85. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Frank Ocean

Quotes About The Ocean #56699
#86. Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Quotes About The Ocean #58685
#87. Somewhere along the seashore, a strange wind blows over the ocean, and twenty oblivious boys simultaneously look up from their surfboards.

Sarah Ockler

Quotes About The Ocean #58729
#88. 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.

Margot Datz

Quotes About The Ocean #58771
#89. To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

John C. Hawkes

Quotes About The Ocean #59426
#90. He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#91. The green grass floweth like a stream
Into the oceans's blue.

James Russell Lowell

Quotes About The Ocean #60689
#92. If we dump all the machinery and take the knowledge we have in the ocean within six months humanity will die. If we dump all the politician all around the world in the ocean everything will go along very nicely.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Quotes About The Ocean #62143
#93. My friend asked me I ever swam with dolphins. I was like, 'Yeah, of course. What distance are we talking about from the dolphins? Because the last time I was in the ocean, I'm pretty sure I swam with most of them.'

Demetri Martin

Quotes About The Ocean #65547
#94. If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.

Emma Restall Orr

Quotes About The Ocean #66078
#95. Somewhat of goodness, something true
From sun and spirit shining through
All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark
Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark,
Attests the presence everywhere
Of love and providential care.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Quotes About The Ocean #67451
#96. Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

Alison McGhee

Quotes About The Ocean #68320
#97. Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

Greg MacGillivray

Quotes About The Ocean #69203
#98. One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

Joseph Conrad

Quotes About The Ocean #69245
#99. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

George Gordon Byron

Quotes About The Ocean #70777
#100. If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

Jack Kornfield

Quotes About The Ocean #71827

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