Sea Shell Quotes

#1. She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

T.H. White

#2. There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell
emerges strange and lovely.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#5. Yuvali struggled to put one foot in front of the other. The long leaves of a purple-flowered bush raked her forehead. The flower emerged from bulbous green tubes, unfolding toward the sun. The petals radiated like flecks in an eye, a whirlpool, a sea-shell." Ch.19

B.T. Lowry

#6. I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work; as every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexist in the secreting organs of the fish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

Steven Wright

#9. Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell ...

Anais Nin

#10. Life is nothing but a sea shell in the ocean of love.

Debasish Mridha

#11. There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand ... with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

Albert Camus

#12. There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?

Billy Graham

#13. The Shell
The sea fills my ear
with sand and with fear.
You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me.

Ted Hughes

#14. You're only a victim when you allow yourself to be one.

Primadonna Angela

#15. It's only the sea,' said Moomintroll. 'Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn't go inside because it's a labyrinth and you may never come out again.

Tove Jansson

#16. Gay, straight, whore, prude, whatever. If it made someone happy and didn't hurt someone else, do it. Life was too short.

Charlotte Reagan

#17. Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

J.G. Holland

#18. Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

Elisabeth Rohm

#19. What can we expect from an empty shell
Where many hearts of pearl once beat to dwell
Waves fail to break hard layer's bond of love
Wailing shore sends memoir to the sky above

Munia Khan

#20. The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not,

Alex Colville

#21. Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Frances Beinecke

#22. As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

James Hollis

#23. Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Muhammad Iqbal

#24. Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#25. My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain ... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

Chief Seattle

#26. To forgive someone else,
is to forgive yourself.
Even though you do not understand this.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 6, 2016

Petra Hermans

#27. A woman's outfit says a lot about her.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#28. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

#29. I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

Sheryl Swoopes

#30. In London, I take the Tube everywhere.

Elizabeth McGovern

#31. If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to the wind telling her strange tales, or hold the big spotted shell that murmured of the sea to her ear, or talk to the roses in the garden.

L.M. Montgomery

#33. I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

Booker T. Washington

#34. Go gather by the humming sea
Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell,
And to its lips thy story tell.

W.B.Yeats

#35. I took the conch shell and set it to my ear. Its susurrus sounded less like the sea than the labored breathing of a tiring runner. No doubt I heard what I was listening for.

Ross Macdonald

#36. Dostoyevsky crucified on the roulette wheel with
Christ on his mind

Charles Bukowski

#37. Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Eckhart Tolle

#38. It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.

Milan Kundera