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Discover my fav quotes about the sea and ocean and the powerful element of the water that is an endless source of inspiration for artists.
Through centuries the sea and the ocean remain an endless source of inspiration for authors, poets, and artists. At a time when humanity has begun exploring the world’s oceans, authors, poets, and artists are producing works on the subject. These works may range from simple poems to complex novels that explored the theme of the ocean in depth. Whether they evoked feelings of nostalgia or joy, this vast array of work is a testament to the sea and ocean’s importance. Not only as a source of inspiration for writers and artists alike but as an essential part of our life and survival.
Many authors have expressed their appreciation of the sea’s beauty and power through their writings, poems, paintings, photographs, etc. Thus, from ancient times, there is the Greek poet Homer with his epic poem “The Odyssey” and the Roman poet Virgil with his work “Aeneid. Moreover, we find many other important authors that it’s impossible to refer them all. Amongst them, there are Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, William Wordsworth, John Keats, John Muir, Henry David, etc.
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My fav quotes about the sea and ocean
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
– Anaïs Nin
“When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.”
– Orhan Pamuk
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea“.
– E. E. Cummings
“It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”
– Haruki Murakami
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Self is a sea boundless and measureless.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?”
– Thomas Mann
“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”
– Bob Dylan
“Whenever he saw the sea or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
– Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. “
– Kahlil Gibran
“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.”
– Hermann Hesse
“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.”
– Maya Angelou
“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.”
– Pablo Neruda
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
“The hour forgot itself as evening came on
– Odysseus Elytis
Without memory
With its speechless tree
Facing the sea
It forgot itself as evening came on
Without flutter
With its immobile face
Facing the sea
As evening came on
Without eros
With its unyielding mouth
Facing the sea
And I-amid the Serenity I enticed.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.”
– Rumi
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