These sea quotes will inspire you. Sea, a great body of saltwater that covers much of the earth; broadly.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging sea quotes, sea sayings, and sea proverbs.
Best Sea Quotes
- “I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” ~ Alain Gerbault
- “Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.” ~ Jennifer Donnelly
- “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.” ~ Kate Chopin
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“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.” ~ Rumi
- “Smell the sea and feel the sky.” ~ Van Morrison
- “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
- “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “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
- “The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.” ~ Tim Winton
- “I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There’s never an end for the sea.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.” ~ Ivan Panin
- “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ~ Robin Lee Graham
- “The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” ~ Bryan Procter
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“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “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
- “To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.” ~ Rachel Carson , Sea quotes about life
- “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” ~ Isak Dinesen
- “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
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“Calm seas never made a good sailor” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.” ~ Rachel Carson
- “With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.” ~ Sylvia Earle
- “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
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“It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” ~ Francis Drake
- “I need the sea because it teaches me” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.” ~ Bob Dylan
- “I love the sea because it is boundless.” ~ Craig Thompson , Sea quotes love
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“When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg
- “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
- “It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.” ~ Vito Dumas
- “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!” ~ Igor Stravinsky
- “The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.” ~ Jules Verne
- “The sea is as near as we come to another world.” ~ Anne Stevenson
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“Praise the sea; on shore remain.” ~ John Florio
- “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.” ~ Rumi
- “Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.” ~ Rumi
- “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.
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“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.” ~ Albert Camus
- “There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” ~ Herman Melville
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“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.” ~ Cornelia Funke
- “The sea lives in every one of us.” ~ Robert Wyland
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” ~ e. e. cummings
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“You stand next to the sea and you’re in touch with all your longings and all your losses.” ~ Elizabeth Hay
- “The ocean is a mighty harmonist.” ~ William Wordsworth
- “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
- “The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.” ~ Henrik Ibsen
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“Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” ~ Amin Maalouf
- “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.” ~ Jeanne Moreau
- “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
- “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
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“Life is as inexorable as the sea.” ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- “The sea hath no king but God alone.” ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- “The sea drives truth into a man like salt.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
- “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
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“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” ~ Aristotle Onassis
- “The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” ~ Francis Stokes
- “You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.” ~ Jimi Hendrix