Quotes on Sailing

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

To reach a port we must set sail

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

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

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.