All Quotes by Sea
“I tell you naught for your comfort, And the sea rises higher.”
“A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats.”
“Enten ... shaped lagoons in the water of the sea. He let fish and birds together come into existence by the sea.”
“The sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly.”
“The sea is the sweat of the earth.”
“The sea, that great library of books one cannot read.”
“I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.”
“Praise the sea, but keep on land.”
“We have fed our sea for a thousand yearsBut marks our English dead.”
“It keeps eternal whisperings aroundOf Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.”
“I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”
“Many years ago I was a boy drowning in the sea. I am always drowning in the sea... down amongst the dead men, deep down. There is a peace in the sea back down to our origins... when the last man has taken his breath the sea will still be remaining. It washes everything clean. It holds within it forever the boy suspended in its body and the streaming hair and the open eyes.”
“Oh salty sea, how much of your saltare tears of Portugal!”
“The precious stone set in the silver sea.”
“All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from seaweed to a sailor’s yarn, or a fish story. In this element the animal and vegetable kingdoms meet and are strangely mingled.”
“Beware of the Sea! If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore, Thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more.”
“Behold, the sea itself”
“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place where the rivers come, thither they return again.”
“On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.”
“The burden of the desert of the sea.”
“If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea.”
“The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land,Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.”
“I never was on the dull, tame shore,But I loved the great sea more and more.”
“The sea! the sea! the open sea!Or like a cradled creature lies.”
“Behold the Sea,Giving a hint of that which changes not.”
“The sea is flowing ever,The land retains it never.”
“There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the bosome of the sea, that never was seene nor never shall bee.”
“The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood In our own veins, impetuous and near.”
“The sea appears all golden Beneath the sun-lit sky.”
“Of the loud resounding sea.”
“Come o'er the moonlit sea,The waves are brightly glowing.”
“Tut! the best thing I know between France and England is the sea.”
“Love the sea? I dote upon it—from the beach.”
“The land is dearer for the sea,The ocean for the shore.”
“Would'st thou,"—so the helmsman answered, Comprehend its mystery!”
“It is a pleasure for to sit at ease That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.”
“Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.”
“Why does the sea moan evermore?The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.\t”
“Streak of silver sea.\t”
“The Channel is that silver strip of sea which severs merry England from the tardy realms of Europe.”
“There the sea I foundCalm as a cradled child in dreamless slumber bound.”
“I loved the Sea.In yonder land-locked bay, unwrinkled by the wind.”
“Break, break, break, The thoughts that arise in me.”