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What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
Sep 24, 2025
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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 seashore, 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.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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.
To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
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.
The sea lives in every one of us.
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
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.
I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Smell the sea and feel the sky.
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
The sea is as near as we come to another world.
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.