High Seas Quotes - Page 2

• And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Country, Sweet

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mother, Air, Sea

  "Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.

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• With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

  Stefan Zweig

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Men

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