Sea And Beach Quotes:

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 voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

- Kate Chopin

source: 1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

topic: Ocean, Voice, Sea, Maritime, Ocean Sea

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

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

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

- Isak Dinesen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the beach, you can live in bliss.

- Dennis Wilson

topic: Beach, Ocean, Bliss, Cool Beach, Beach And Ocean

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 ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

- Robert Wyland

topic: Ocean, Heart, Imagination, Stirring, 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

topic: Ocean, Believe, Rivers, Cool Beach, Beach And Ocean

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.32, Om Books International

topic: Beach, Ocean, Air, Oceans And Seas, Long Beach

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

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

- Sarah Kay

source: Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

topic: Love, Inspirational, Beautiful, Kissing Someone, Ocean Currents

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

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

- Henry Beston

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

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

The sea lives in every one of us.

- Robert Wyland

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

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 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

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

- Lord Byron

topic: Men, Sailing, Earth, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Beach, Ocean, Sea, I Pray, Ocean Currents

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

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

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

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

- William Cowper

topic: God, Beach, Moving, Footsteps, Mysterious Ways

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Sarcastic, Nature, Ocean, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water