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The 59 Best Quotes About The Ocean

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As humans, we weren’t really built for the sea. Yet we yearn for it, do we not?

Many have fallen in love with vast and endless ocean and have written beautiful things about it. We’ve gone ahead and curated the best of them for your quote-loving enjoyment.

I need the sea because it teaches me.Pablo Neruda

The ocean calms my restless soul.Unknown

The Cure Is Salt

The sea lives in every one of us. Wyland


Thousands have lived without love- not one without water. W. H. Auden


I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.Jean Cocteau

I crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous. Unknown

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She was the tide, always drifting in and out of the lives of those who loved her, eternally indecisive, unable to discern whether she desired the solidity and safety of land, or the wild freedom of the ocean.Beau Taplin, Wild Ocean

Home is where the waves are. Unknown

It’s always our self we find in the sea. E.E. Cummings

In a cottage
by the Sea
is where
I want to be.Unknown

The sea will grant each man new hope. Christopher Columbus

Sylvia Plath The Sea

To me, the sea is like a person — like a child that I’ve known 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

Dear ocean,
Thank you for making us feel tiny, humble, inspired, and salty… all at once.Unknown


The ocean, because of its vastness, can hide secrets for a very long time. Paul Snelgrove

I am a tiny seashell that
has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body. Edward Hirsch





Beautiful Mysterious

If you ever find yourself empty from something you cannot know or name, find a stretch of ocean, a field, or mountainside, or even clouds, or trees. Because there are 1,000 simple ways to fill your tired soul so you can remember how to be, how to see, and most importantly, how to breathe.Victoria Erickson


But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. H.P. Lovecraft

If the ocean ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. Stephen Palumbi

smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides. Unknown

Time is like the ocean you can only hold a little in your hands. Josh Pyke



Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. H. P. Lovecraft

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


My Eyes Search For You

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being. Vera Nazarian


I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again. Lauren DeStefano

Every Drop In The Ocean Counts


‘Take your shoes off,’ purred the ocean waves. Dr. SunWolf


I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. Drew Barrymore

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. Kahlil Gibran

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark. Bob Dylan



Even castles made from sand fall to the ocean. Jimi Hendrix



As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love. Unknown

The waves are calling and I must go. Unknown

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