Ocean Quotes - Page 7

• Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

  Frank Ocean

  Hate, Remember, One Love

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• More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beach, Book, Men

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.953, Ageless Reads

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  The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

  Laird Hamilton

  Surfing, Would Be, World

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• I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

  Alain Bombard

  Fighting, Men, Sea

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• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wisdom, Freedom, Rain

  Frederick Douglass (2014). “Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.

  Kenny Rogers

  Love You, Heart, Blow

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• Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

  Angela Kinsey

  Cutting, Shopping, Bags

  "The Office‘s Angela Kinsey Gets Serious About Sea Turtles" by Tamar Abrams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

  Robert Toombs

  War, Mountain, World

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• Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
  Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.

  Herman Melville

  Dark, Blue, Hunters

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick”, p.184, Tyché

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• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Beach, Knowledge, Islands

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Sea, Land

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• Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

  Hannah Flagg Gould

  Sports, Hands, Years

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• It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Cutting, Sea, World

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”

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• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Respect, Sea, People

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Unique

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Sea, Missing

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• What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

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• It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Distance, Voice, Depth

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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

  Thomas Gray

  Dark, Rays, Caves

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

  Carl Safina

  Stress, Blessed, Sea

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• At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powered lights to brighten the night if you can't see anything green during the day? Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

  Thomas Friedman

  Sunset, Mean, Night

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• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Islands, Sea, Play

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• The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Sea, Water

  Joseph Conrad (2011). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.147, The Floating Press

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• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Men, Green, Waste

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Long Distance Relationship, White, Lines

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.224, Penguin UK

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