Sea Quotes

First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Wonder
- Blue
- Ocean
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he or she can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Saul Bellow

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.

Henry Ward Beecher
- Sea
- Meet
- Ships
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.

Alice Oswald
- Light
- Quality
- Dark
I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year's Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it.

Joseph Brodsky
- Time
- Fashion
- Water
For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

Joanne Harris
- Magic
- Sea
There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

John Burnside
- World
- Red
- Wind
Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- River
- Lake
- Rivers