Sea Quotes

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

Your eyes call me home, they beckon me from the sea.

All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath.

Time, like the sea, unties all knots.

The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown – the Air is our robe of state – the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.