Best Ocean Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“We are all of life”

“It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.”

“Tell her this”

“I thought of you and how you love this beauty,”

“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”

“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,”

“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”

“But the sea”

“The sea is a desert of waves,”

“my dear,”

“I can wade Grief—”

“Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.”

“she's got”

“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.”

“May your love for me be”

“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide”

“Maybe I’m still the mermaid.”

“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the shore before they could drown. He always hesitated about that adventure. He was scared of failing to swim, and drowning to death. But he was never able to stop thinking about how the adventure could end up. He finally made his mind up and started swimming. And eventually, he gave up against the waves and the storms she created and he began to drown. But the moment he stopped fighting to survive, she slowly embraced him inside her arms. And he began to realise that everything was very different than what he had always imagined. He could feel every breath he took there, better than any place he had ever lived. She was splendid and he never felt like swimming away from her arms ever.”

“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.”

“At beyond continent of reality,”

“Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.”

“Dreams are like the old stories where wolves are seekers always running, and women carry fire in their bare hands and light the dark paths before them.”

“Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.”

“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”

“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”

“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.”