These ocean quotes and sea sayings are for everyone who dreams and thinks big. The seas have always inspired people to explore what lies beyond them.
The vast stretches of water have always triggered a basic instinct for exploration and expedition, leading many to find new horizons. The beauty, dangers, and mysteries mesmerize and intrigue the hearts and minds even today.
The tranquility and peace that seas offer have their own importance to the human soul. Share these majestic ocean quotes with friends and loved ones or check them often to feel the deeper connection that we all share with the seas.
Best Ocean Quotes
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
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
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
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
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Good Sea Quotes
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
I wanted freedom, open-air, and adventure. I found it on the sea.
Alain Gerbault
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
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
Kate Chopin
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Alexander Smith
Smell the sea and feel the sky.
Van Morrison
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
The sea lives in every one of us.
Robert Wyland
The sea hates a coward.
Eugene O’Neill
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
John Joly
Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
Rumi
The great sea makes one a great skeptic.
Richard Jefferies
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
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Inspirational 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
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
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Vladimir Nabokov
For whatever we lose, it’s always our self we find in the sea.
E.E. Cummings
There’s never an end for the sea.
Samuel Beckett
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.
Robin Lee Graham
The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid and avoids the storm he cannot weather.
Unknown
Follow the river and you will find the sea.
French Proverb
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
Christopher Columbus
Snorkeling And Diving Quotes
I like snorkeling, it’s the only thing I’m able to do that makes me think I can fly.
Luigina Sgarro
For the rich, there is therapy. For the rest of us, there is SCUBA DIVING!
Unknown
Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
Gabrielle Zevin
Scuba diving is sensual. To breathe underwater is one of the most fascinating and peculiar sensations imaginable. Breathing becomes a rhythmic melody of inhalations and exhalations.
Tec Clark
Well… I love moving in extra dimensions. Not just backwards and forwards, but up and down and around. And fins. I love swimming with fins.
Kirsten Hubbard
Wake up, eat breakfast, dive, morning tea, dive, lunch, sleep, dive, afternoon tea, enjoy a beer with another beautiful sunset, dinner, some small talk about the days diving, and sleep again … very stressful.
Unknown
You approach the freedom of a bird as you move in three dimensions in a fluid environment.
Dennis Graver
Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect of the pleasing, vaguely erotic sensation of water pressure on the body.
Barry Lopez
Short Ocean Quotes to Ponder
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
Kahlil Gibran
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
B. R. Ambedkar
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
Mother Teresa
You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
Oprah Winfrey
— Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author, inventor, and founder of Greeting Card Poet.
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