Quotes on Sea

The sea is not a bargain basement.

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.

A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

Sitting over words _x000D_ Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing _x000D_ Not far _x000D_ Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark _x000D_ The echo of everything that has ever _x000D_ Been spoken _x000D_ Still spinning its one syllable _x000D_ Between the earth and silence.

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

When she stepped out of that spumy sea Aphrodite was said to have brought fertility, flowers, life, light to a barren world. For centuries women and men went to her sanctuaries to seek her pity and protection. Her domain was originally not just lust, but lust for life.

I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.