Sea Voyage Quotes:

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

- Jeanette Winterson

source: Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Sea, Sea Voyage, Voyages

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

- Mary Ritter Beard

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel, Journey Inspirational, Life Going On

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

topic: Life, Taken, Opportunity, Joint Ventures, New Opportunity

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Motivational, Running, Not Giving Up, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

- Pat Conroy

source: FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

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.

- John Masefield

topic: Life, Dream, Sweet, Vagrants, Sweet Dreams

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

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.

- John Masefield

source: John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

topic: Lonely, Stars, Sea, Captain Kirk, Mariners

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

- George William Curtis

topic: Journey, Achievement, Sailing, Prosperous, Mariners

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

- Joshua Slocum

source: Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

topic: Men, Voyages, Boat, Nautical, Sailboat

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

topic: Change, Taken, Opportunity, New Opportunity, Stormy Seas

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Being Happy, Weather, Clothes, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

- Jimmy Cornell

topic: Dream, Mean, Reality, Sailing And The Sea, Sea Voyage

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

- Ranulph Fiennes

topic: Adventure, Weather, Inappropriate, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

- Washington Irving

source: Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.16, e-artnow

topic: Dream, Air, Sea, Sea Voyage

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

- Bayard Taylor

topic: Sea, Comfort, Would Be, Creature Comforts, Sea Voyage

In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Katherine Mansfield (2016). “KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...”, p.345, e-artnow

topic: Travel, Believe, Years, Dry Land, Sea Voyage

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Vanity, Sea, Curiosity, Sea Voyage

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

- Lord Byron

topic: Moon, Air, Sea, Sea Voyage

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Mean, Thinking, Sea, Languish, Astounded

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.87, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Journey, Sea, Battle, Sea Voyage

Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Night, Journey, Sea, Sea Voyage

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

- William Cooke Taylor

topic: Wine, Sea, Punishment, Sea Voyage