Quotes on Beach And Ocean

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

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

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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.

I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

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, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

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.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.