1,231 Quotes About Sea
- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.
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- Author Stephen Charles Gould
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The waves thundered still onto the beach the next morning and Davy spent a good hour watching them pound the sand. It was therapeutic. He didn't know which he identified with more - the surf, raging against immovable stone outcroppings, or the rocks, taking enormous punishment without being able to strike back
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- Author Sara Sheridan
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Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret – something ancient and precious.
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- Author Cornelia Funke
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The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
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- Author Louise Glück
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You stand as rocks stand to which the sea reaches in transparent waves of longing;they are marred, finally;everything fixed is marred.And the sea triumphs,like all that is false,all that is fluent and womanly.
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- Author Adrienne Young
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Night fell over the sea, painting the Marigold black except for the white sails stretched against the dark, clouded sky. The stars and moon hid, giving no sign of where the sea ended and the sky began, and I liked the feeling. Like we were floating in the air. The west wind was warm, finding its way onto the ship before it ran back to the wake on the water behind us.
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- Author Adrienne Young
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I stood against the wind, watching the movement of the water around the coral islands. It pushed up the shelf gently, and if it was as calm beneath the surface as it was above, I could do the dive in just minutes
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- Author Melissa Broder (author)
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I lay down on one of [the rocks] in the fetal position. When I awoke it was after one a.m. and the tide was rising higher. My body was coated in salt and ocean foam. I felt like I was part of the rock and part of the ocean, and I wondered if this was how Sappho felt, even in her deepest desperation, part of the earth, like that desperation and longing or eternal cosmic want was something to be celebrated–something natural–holy even, or at least, not just something to be endured.
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- Author Jordan Hoechlin
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We dream in colors borrowed from the seaside
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