black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Jules Verne

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
JULES VERNE

Description Horror Portrait
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
JULES VERNE

Capability Imagination Man Oneself
I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
JULES VERNE

Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNE

Fact Imagination Reality Romantic
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
JULES VERNE

Deep Fear Lightning Man Nature Philosophy Thunder
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNE

Death Energy Man Success
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
JULES VERNE

Best Friendship Ourselves Sleep Wait
Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNE

Beyond Creation Destruction Man Nature Power
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
JULES VERNE

Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
JULES VERNE

Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
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.
JULES VERNE

Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
JULES VERNE

Flower Nature Sea Soul
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
JULES VERNE

Oneself Perfection Science Theory
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
JULES VERNE

Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
JULES VERNE

Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
JULES VERNE

Himself Spirit Travel

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jules Verne Quotes