“I wonder where it will go, whether it will survive, will be cast back here on Rota, or taken hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles to another island in the Pacific. Ten minutes more ad I can no longer see it--it is launched, like a little ship, on its journey on the high seas.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org
“Our love is as deep as the sea Our love is as great as a love can be And we can weather the great unknown If we're alone together.”— Ella Fitzgerald, open.spotify.com
“Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads, The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.”— Dylan Thomas, internal.org
“It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the…”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com
“Out of the nameless and unfathomed weavings of billion-footed life, out of the dark abyss of time and duty, blind chance had brought these two together on a ship, and their first meeting had been upon the timeless and immortal seas that beat forever at the shores of the old earth.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”— Greta Garbo, goodreads.com
“Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, its tides and its depths; it has its pearls too.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”— Holly Black, amazon.com
“When I come out of the ocean my eyes are sparkling. I feel like I’m reborn.”— Janne Robinson, saltysoulsexperience.com