“If the fish you are looking to catch isn't in the sea, look in the tank.”— René Echevarria, Travis Beacham, Stephanie K. Smith, Rycroft 'Philo' Philostrate, Orlando Bloom, imdb.com
“I have never seen the ocean, she said, but I think about it often— whenever I cry.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“After the war, cities were rebuilt on the seas, in the skies, but the deadliest ones were built on wheels.”— Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh, Narrator, imdb.com
“That's a wise choice because I knew this girl who like had this crazy freak out because she took too many behavioral meds at once and she like ripped off her clothes, and dove into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and was like, 'Blah I am a Kracken from the sea!'”— Diablo Cody, Juno MacGuff, Ellen Page, imdb.com
“'The sea is a really nice thing, isn't it?' 'Yeah, it is. Makes you feel calm.' 'Why is that?' 'Probably 'cause it's so big, with nothing on it.'”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“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.”— Beyoncé, essence.com
“Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.”— Michelle Held, coastalliving.com
“Timeless sea breezes, that for ages have blown ancient rocks, you are purest space coming from afar.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“We dry and die in the sun. While the seascape arranges old fruit, coming in and the tide, glistening at noon.”— Weldon Kees, poetryfoundation.org
“And I shall grow young again in the storm and drift of the foam and the dark wild waves! Yes — a wandering life suits me — and I am not sorry to have a taste of it once more. There's nothing like it — nothing like a broad ocean and sweeping wind!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.”— John Muir, amazon.com
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”— Rachel Carson, amazon.com
“Men call thee false and fickle, The all-devouring sea; And shudder at thy caverns With their dread mystery. But thou to me art ever The faithful and the fond, Disclosing half thy beauty, But hinting more beyond. Thine infinite suggestion Still lures me to thy side...”— Minot Savage, ebooksread.com
“‘Oh, where is the sea?’ the fishes cried, As they swam the crystal clearness through; ‘We’ve heard from of old of the ocean’s tide, And we long to look on the water’s blue. The wise ones speak of the infinite sea. Oh, who can tell us if such there be?’ The lark flew up in the morning bright, And sa…”— Minot Savage, en.wikisource.org
“Isn’t it strange, the way time moves? I could stand here and watch the sea crash beneath me for hours and it would feel like only minutes had passed.”— Sjana Elise Earp, instagram.com
“Man has always been drawn to the sea. But it's an unnatural setting for us, a place of great danger. Tides, currents, waves, wind, each presenting their own hazards, none of which can be ignored. The slightest lapse of judgment can be a mistake you might never recover from. But a good sailor doesn't…”— Scott Buck, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“But, my masters, I must have it left [stopped], for I must have the gentleman to hale and draw [work] with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know…”— Francis Drake, amazon.com