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Quotes about Ocean

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.
— Stephen Kendrick
The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
— Alan Hirsch
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
— Herman Melville
He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.
— Ernest Hemingway
A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
— Anne Lamott
Standing in the station, with Paris in back of them, it seemed as if they were vicariously leaning a little over the ocean, already undergoing a sea-change, a shifting about of atoms to form the essential molecule of new people.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
— Anonymous
Leviathan that crooked serpent… the dragon that is in the sea.
— Anonymous
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.
— Anonymous