50 Sea Quotes – To Calm Your Soul
Looking for the best sea quotes? These 50 epic sea quotes will show you what true calm and vastness is all about.
Hey my friend,
Let’s chat about sea quotes.
The following quotes about sea will instantly warm your heart.
These sea quotes will also make you realise what TRUE calm and vastness looks like.
Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest sea quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 sea quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
SEA QUOTES
1 – The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. Karen Blixen
2 – Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth. Heinrich Zimmer
3 – Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home. Sylvia Earle
4 – My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5 – The waves of the sea help me get back to me. Jill Davis
6 – Only those who have lived by the sea know the sweetness of salt. Juan Ortiz
7- There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. Dave Barry
8 – The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau
9 – 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
10 – When anxious, restless, and evil thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great, vast sounds, purifies me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm on everything in me that is disturbed and confused. Rainer Maria Rilke
SEA QUOTES
11 – The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient… Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
12 – The ocean has always been a salve to my soul…the best thing for a cut or abrasion was to go swimming in salt water. Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. Jimmy Buffet
13 – The sea does not like to be restrained. Rick Riordan
14 – In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. Kahlil Gibran
15 – I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. Alain Gerbeault
16 – Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
17- But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? Joshua Slocum
18 – I love the sea like my soul, because the sea is my soul. Heinrich Heine
19 – The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities…
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry. Rachel Carson
20 – The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. Vladimir Nabokov
SEA QUOTES
21 – The sea is in my blood as much as you are in my heart, and as much as god is in my soul. Anthony T. Hincks
22 – For her, the sea was more than a dream, it was a place she had to go to find herself. And when she returned to the city, you could see the sun in her eyes, feel the wind in her hair and taste the infinite salt on her lips. José Chávez
23 – 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
24 – That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. John Joly
25 – Rough seas make stronger sailors. Tough times build greater people. Robin Sharma
26 – Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive. And that’s what makes the calm sea alive. Munia Khan
27- You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean. Mitch Albom
28 – 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
29 – The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors. Phillip Diole
30 – The free sea frees the spirit. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
SEA QUOTES
31 – You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
32 – 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 everything in me that is bewildered and confused. Rainer Maria Rilke
33 – As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in a storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife. Ivan Panin
34 – Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. Hermann Broch
35 – 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
36 – The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. Cornelia Funke
37- There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it.
It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace its audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers. Cecilia Ahern
38 – Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. Ralph Waldo Emerson
39 – In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves. Rolf Edberg
40 – 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 everything in me that is bewildered and confused. Rainer Maria Rilke
SEA QUOTES
41 – The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water. Langston Hughes
42 – Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. Carl Schurz
43 – I have been feeling very clear headed lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins.
Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads. It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. Anthony Doerr
44 – To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that I’ve known for 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
45 – The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn’t down there, I don’t know. Graham Hawkes
46 – At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. Robin Lee Graham
47- 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
48 – Eternity begins and ends with the tides of the ocean.
49 – Smell the sea and feel the sky, Let your soul and spirit fly. Van Morrison
50 – Follow the river and you will find the sea. French Proverb
BONUS: Only you could have won me away from the sea. I came back from the ends of the earth for you. George R.R. Martin
BONUS: The sea is as near as we come to another world. Anne Stevenson
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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