Endless Sea Quotes:

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

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Encouragement, Beach, Ocean, Maritime, Sea Breeze

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, I Hate You, Health, Motivational Swimming, Wild Places

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Jobs, Ocean, People, Maritime, Innovative Leadership

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

- Edwidge Danticat

topic: Names, Sea, Sky, Endless Sea

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

- Fernando Pessoa

topic: Sea, Greek, Portuguese, Endless Sea

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

- George Burns

source: George Burns (1986). “Dear George: advice & answers from America's leading expert on everything from A to B”, G K Hall & Co

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Old Age Humor, Endless Sea

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Men, Sea, Time Love, Inspiring Love

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Men, Sea, Want, Endless Sea

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Sea, Land, Break, Loaded, Endless Sea

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

- Patch Adams

topic: Gratitude, Bad Day, Sea, Endless Sea

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

- Horatio Nelson

topic: Pain, War, Sea, Horatio, Endless Sea

There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.

- Alister Hardy

topic: Ocean, Squids, Whales, Invertebrates, Endless Sea

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Marriage, Moving, Sea, Marriage Advice, Marriage Toast

I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

- Dan Simmons

source: "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

topic: Faith, Sea, Law, Unfeeling, Endless Sea

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Men, Order, Sea, Endless Sea