100+ Beach Ocean Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.19, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Beach, Nature, Rain, Sound Of Rain, Sound Of Water

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Beach, Nature, Ocean, Grains Of Sand, Cool Beach

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Nature, Ocean, Science, Oceans And Seas, Queen Of England

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

- Isaac Newton

topic: Beach, Children, Lying, Vast Ocean, Beach And Ocean

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

- Christopher Paolini

source: Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Nature, Hate, Ocean, Inspirational Nature, Shackles

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Ocean, Heart, Sea, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

- Walt Whitman

topic: Ocean, Men, Sea, Ocean Sea, Ocean Wave

The sea hath no king but God alone.

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

topic: Kings, Ocean, Sea, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

- Gertrude Ederle

topic: Children, Crazy, Ocean, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

- Heinrich Zimmer

topic: Ocean, Water, Beginnings And Ends, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Stars, Wall, Ocean, Firmament, Beach And Ocean

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

- Rachel Carson

topic: Ocean, Sea, Way, Marine Biology, Sinister

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.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

source: Time, March 28, 1960.

topic: Ocean, Men, Sea, Free Diving, Scuba

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

- Thomas Fuller

source: "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

topic: Ocean, Sea, Water, Sound Of Water, Take Nothing For Granted

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

- Jeanne Moreau

topic: Beach, Ocean, Sea, Cool Beach, 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.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Life, Beach, Ocean, Cool Beach, Beach And Ocean

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

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

topic: Ocean, Sea, People, Maritime, Ocean Sea

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

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Ocean, Book, Men, Beach And Ocean, Beach Ocean

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

- Loren Eiseley

source: "The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

topic: Beach, War, Ocean, Ocean Sea, Walking On The Beach

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Beach, Ocean, Vacation, Inertia, Best Vacation

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.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.15, Virginia Woolf

topic: Tattoo, Beach, Ocean, Monotonous Life, Ocean Wave

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

- Van Morrison

source: Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

topic: Smell, Sea, Sky, Oceans And Seas, Beach And Ocean

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

- Bryan Procter

source: Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

topic: Ocean, Blue, Sea, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

- Robert Henri

source: Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Beach, Ocean, Thinking, Sea Breeze, Ocean Sea

At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.

- Sandy Gingras

topic: Beach, Moving, Jumping, Ocean Currents, Beach And Ocean

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.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

- Van Morrison

source: "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

topic: Ocean, Sea, Sky, Beach And Ocean, Beach Ocean

The sea lives in every one of us.

- Robert Wyland

topic: Ocean, Sea, Sea Life, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

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

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

source: Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

topic: Beach, Ocean, Sea, Nautical, Scuba

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Ocean, Thinking, Blood, Mariners, Ocean Currents

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

- e. e. cummings

source: E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

topic: Inspirational, Ocean, Lakes, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Beach, Ocean, Inspiration, Drops In The Ocean, Volunteerism

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

topic: Beach, Ocean, Knowledge, Ocean Sea, Cool Beach

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.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Beach, Ocean, Thinking, Ocean Water, Sea Life

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.

- Isaac Newton

source: Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Famous Last Words, Mathematics And Science

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.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

topic: Patience, Beach, Nature, Maritime, Ocean Sea

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.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Confused, Ocean, Sea, Uneasy, Bad Thoughts

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

- William Stafford

source: William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press